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Somethings…

December 17, 2010
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I’m well aware of my limitations. I know some things that I do well. I know at some things at which I even excel. At others I’m merely passable. Yet more I’m merely bad. And there are those few things at which I know I simply am incapable. I know some people figure I can do a lot. And when the kids were small believed I could do anything. But sometimes you see something and know, deep down, that no matter how hard you desired or tried or wanted you could not come close to replicating. In fact, in the case that follows I couldn’t even become sufficiently practiced to be bad at it. And, yes, the video is inspiring. The guy has serious talent. Incredible balance. If I tried even one of the things he does they’d have to pick my pieces up off the ground. It’s things like this that make me smile. It’s when someone has a joie de vivre that makes me happy to be human. If more of us took this type of attitude towards life — to enjoy it, to love what’s around us, to stand in awe of each other’s abilities we’d all

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Creationists drive me nuts

November 1, 2010
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As I sit here in excruciating pain courtesy of yet another kidney stone I can’t help but think how genetics and evolution provided me with this “joyful” condition. Which makes me think of idiotic creationists who think God went about the planet a few thousand years ago going “Horse. Pig. Donkey. …” Insanity. Why creationists believe in such an animist god is beyond me. A god who is stupider than I am is irreconcilable with either my faith or intelligence. And that’s one of those things I simply cannot figure out. Why do so many people believe in a god who is dumber than many people are? Is it the comfort that comes from believing someone created everything as it is as opposed to someone who was intelligent enough to create the fundamental algorithms of the universe that would result in the beauty we see everywhere, from the smallest of the small to the immensity of the universe itself. Is it so hard to comprehend that it is much more wonderful to believe that God created a universe based on mathematics, that behaves in comprehensible ways that we, as humans, could comprehend given time? Is it not more wonderful to

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