http://humbuggery.net Beating back the bullshit built into everyday life. Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:02:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My family is predominantly comprised of fundamentalist christians... I mean both my immediate, and my extended family. My grandparents were Catholics, the kind that listened to the "Every sperm is sacred rule", so they had 9 kids- all of my aunts and uncles are married, all but one pair of them ... http://humbuggery.net/2009/family/ This was originally going to be a reply to a comment on reddit here. But unfortunately it grew to 11000 or so characters, and Reddit wouldn't have that. Surprisingly, this is the first time it's happened to me, even though I have a penchant for incredibly longwinded comments. Enjoy this ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/iq-therefore-i-know/ Fun times were had this evening, on my way home from school. I got witnessed too. I was walking toward the campus center of my school, to grab a coke, when two nice college age gentlemen (Joe and Tika, I don't think they'll mind me using their first ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/can-i-get-a-witness/ So, I know my posts are quite sparse to begin with, and sporadic at that. But, sadly, I'm here to tell you, my faithful and equally sporadic readers, that problem will be getting worse. Heres my situation, I transferred last year from one school (WPI) to another, cheaper school (WSC)[1]. In ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/down-the-graduate-school-rabbit-hole/ Antitheism is a spectrum of beliefs which have the following in common, they are all fundamentally against the concept of religion in some form or another. I consider myself a weak antitheist, I think that there are some limited aspects of religion that are broken, namely fundamentalism, evangelicalism, hyper/neoconservativism (more of ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/stupid-is-stupid-no-matter-who-is-spouting-it/ Have you ever been so incredibly annoyed, so frustrated, so viciously upset that you simply want to spit fire. Thats about how I feel right now. It's interesting- I'm rarely this emotional about anything, I'm simply not this kind of person, but here I find myself fire-filled and furious as such. ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/rationality-meet-anger/ I just watched this show, on THC. I actually liked it, the title of the show was "Evolve" and it has to be the first show I've seen on THC that didn't bugger up the science much at all. It was unabashedly pro-evolution, one of the biologists on the show ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/evolve-the-history-channel-may-have-finally-done-something-right/ Jesus and Mo is a webcomic which I enjoy on occasion, the most recent comic involves Jesus and Mo talking with the barmaid about how, while they have exhausted every argument for their religious beliefs, they are still right for having them. Because even though logic and reason have shown ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/jesus-and-mo-faith-and-reason/ Ah, the erstwhile slogan of everyone's favorite software megagiant, but what does it have to do with skepticism, atheism, and religion? As always, dear readers, I bring to you the most complicated controversys ever contrived by humankind, today we talk about death, and what happens after it. Death, the absence of brain ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/where-do-you-want-to-go-today/ In this final post in the Series on God, we consider omnipotence, the power to do anything. Possibly the most famous of God's supposed powers, we'll see how even God isn't powerful enough to stop logic. Logic is not omnipotent, we know this because it's not even powerful enough to work ... http://humbuggery.net/2008/the-omnipotent-god/