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Well not so much my serious side, more or less the things not connected with
some form of entertainment really. Writers:
I guess it should be painfully obvious at this point that I am quite capable of
writing. I have no delusions of greatness. I would like
to write a great novel, and who knows maybe someday I will. I have been told that I say a
lot of wise things. Nothing gives me greater joy than hearing a comment such
as that. Maybe my friends are just being overly generous eh. I don’t see a book of wisdom in my future
as yet. I write
a lot about social issues. Social issues are easy to have an opinion about
though. I actively write into Maclean's magazine, Canada's weekly newsmagazine
for those outside of Canada that don't know of it (but I fear my
views are to extreme for the pages of their product). Science:
The one thing I like about science is that it is not afraid to be wrong.
When it's found in error it's corrected (eventually after much wrangling of
course). Its a pity though that our schools textbooks are so woefully far behind
on what is considered common knowledge to our better thinkers. I fear I will
spend a good deal of time with my son ensuring that they don’t teach
him out dated hogwash. I have only read the works of one man that has greatly
touched my life. The late Carl Sagan was a man greater than the sum of his
parts. If you haven’t read Demon Haunted World, or Billions and Billions, you
owe it to yourself. Just be warned that you may come away scarred, hurt, angry,
and feeling betrayed. He offers up a lot illumination on some of our most
beloved bullshit.
I was happy be a Christian (not sure how though considering the past
history of the faith known by that name). If or when Jesus does return he is
going to be one unhappy individual though. I know I would be greatly upset, if
my name was attributed to a group with the past record that Christianity
possesses. I firmly believe in what we call Christian values. Although I have no
desire to let Christianity take credit for good behaviour. I just wish the
greater bulk of Christianity did so as well. I am not intolerant of opposing
faiths. I'm also not about to cut them any more slack than I will Christianity. Oddly enough I often enjoy talking with pagans more than
persons of "established organized religions. I
would not enjoy the task of having to fill a room with Christians that would
make Jesus proud (to hard to find). With all the science I have learned, I
am still happy to believe in a higher power. The truth is almost certainly going
to be somewhere in the middle.
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