Wave Excerpt: (on the difference between agnostics &atheists) one is impractical in it’s equivocations about nonsense. the other tries to move on, leaving the anachronistic baggage trailing behind like a reptile’s desicated skin, while the equivocating agnosticator uses the trailing waste to climb aboard and poke their withered, detumescent reason at my purple monkey.

Facebook “Should Children Be Spanked” Poll Comment Excerpt:

Does Kathryn think doctors should not be allowed to help individuals make end-of-life decisions? Is she arguing that personal liberty should be constrained when an individual is making decisions about how to experience his/her final moments?

Facebook “Should God be taught in Public Schools” Poll Comment Excerpt:

Absolutely. Those who voted no are divorced from history. There is a very real danger to not teaching the evidence that people once depended upon fantasy to make decisions. The concept needs to be taught as a part of our evolutionary history. What a rich and variegated history it is. It’s time to move on. Without admitting that we were once powerless in our fear of the unknown and accepting that we once lived by irrational, maladaptive principles that nearly brought civilization to an end would be hubristic. We need to own up to our evolutionary recidivism to reduce the havoc it’s distortion has already wreaked upon our future. Shame on you who have voted for this attempt at historical revisionism! Shame. You should know better!

Facebook “Is there a god?” Poll Comment Excerpt:

I appreciate your investment! I slip through frustration into antogonism all too often. The potency of emotional responses to the topic of belief indicates that belief is integrated in our self-identity. In an anonymous public forum i find the “fight” response often predominates (over flight). I think it is very important to release control of my beliefs – to remove myself from what I think is in front of me in order to percieve it accurately. This comes from my discipline (how many people refer to their “work” at thier “discipline” – how pretentious can I get?). I’m an artist. My job is to observe and report. The one step I’m leaving out differentiates me from scientist. It’s omitted because that word has been vacillating between “augment” and “respond.” Observe, respond, share response. How do I respond to the concept of “god?” The same way I respond when I draw. I (attempt) remove all the signs – all the labels – and observe. I make marks that I see, not what I’ve been trained or told to see. I attempt to remove myself from the scenario – I go back an I check the marks I have made to see if they correspond to the relative proportions of value, and scale. I may make alterations that correct errors based upon assumptions, or lazy seeing. As the word “nose” only distorts my ability to percieve the constituent forms, hues and values that i am observing when i draw the “model” before me, so the word “god” only distorts my efforts to determine the plausible. While people can look at my drawings and say things like “GREAT NOSE!” (remember, i was not attempting to draw a “nose.”) They never* have said “great god!”

It prejudices my observation with what I think i know. In the case of the word “nose.” you might argue that you are ignoring a great history of shared observation. In the case of the word “god.” There is no case, only ravings.