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Music Monday – “Take me to church/I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies/I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife “

Saw this guy on Saturday Night Live last week and he blew me away. At first, a song called “Take Me To Church” with a refrain of “Amen, amen” throughout might seem like a typical religious song. But listen to the lyrics a little closer (or just read the excerpt from the chorus I used […]

Posted 20 October 2014 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

“Do You Believe In God?” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Good stuff…

Posted 15 October 2014 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “If you aren’t real/Then all my prayers aren’t worth a cent/That would mean I can just make up/What my purpose in life is”

Atheistic rap songs?  Yes, please… “Ill Mind of Hopsin 7” – Hopsin

Posted 28 July 2014 § MusicMonday § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

In One Or Two Sentences, Why Are You An Atheist?

Recently Reddit’s /r/atheism sub-reddit had a question asking users for a one or two sentence explanation for why they’re atheists. I’ve got a lot of reasons but my own two-sentence answer would be something like this: When I was a kid, my friend and I were really into Greek mythology.  He pointed out that the […]

Posted 18 June 2014 § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Here are a few things that caught my eye this past week… What are the best new products nobody knows about? (Quora) How We Die – Then and Now: Comparing Causes of Death, 1900 v. 2010 (Infographic) What Radiohead Song Always Moves You To Tears? (Reddit) How Poverty Taxes The Brain (Infographic) Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” […]

Posted 10 June 2014 § Censorship § Infographic § Jobs § Library § List § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Sad § Saskatchewan § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

CMV: There’s Nothing Wrong with Language Death and Attempts at Revitalizing Dying Languages Are A Complete Waste of Time and Effort

I’ve got numerous sub-Reddits that I love including one called Change My View (r/changemyview) where people pose their positions on sensitive (and not-so-sensitive) topics and ask others to try to convince them to change their mind. And unlike debate on 99% of the Internet, the respondents are often successful in changing the view of the original poster! A recent questions […]

Posted 13 May 2014 § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan

This is beyond cool.  I love Carl Sagan and how he puts life into proper perspective… http://vimeo.com/22582065

Posted 24 April 2014 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership?

Below is the top voted answer, by former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, to the Quora question “What Is The Most Important Thing You’ve Learned About Leadership” (it’s worth clicking through for some of the other answers as well.) 1) Have a grand vision – Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, CTO As a leader, you can inspire […]

Posted 03 April 2014 § Infographic § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Why Do Atheists Deny The Existence of God?

For the same reason we deny the existence of fire-breathing dragons.

Posted 23 March 2014 § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Time: The History and Future of Everything

I know my Atheist Advent series of technically over but I’ll share one final video I had bookmarked that I thought addressed one specific issue really well, namely that a big part of the reason that human are religious is that we simply fail to grasp the time scales involved in things like evolution and […]

Posted 26 December 2013 § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,