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Posted by: Victoria on

12:25 PM  

Hey, found your blog looking for other martial artists close to my age. And here it looks like you're a fellow left winger too. I'm NOT a vegetarian, love my steaks RARE, but my adult daughter is and has been since she was 10. And I'm not an atheist. I am a born again agnostic. I used to be a full-fledged atheist. But then I heard (the now officially dead) outspoken atheist Madeline Murray O'Hare say that no intelligent person could possibly believe in god. I said to myself, "Hey. I know lots of intelligent people who believe in god. Who am I to say that I'm right and they're wrong." In that flash of revelation I was born again as an agnostic.

But in any case, you list martial arts as an interest but don't mention it anywhere on your blog!

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Posted by: veggiedude on

1:30 PM  

Nice to hear from a fellow left leaning agnostic martial artist!

It is true, I don't talk about my martial arts, but I do offer a link at the top of each page to the "MAC dojang", which is my martial art site. Basically, it offers a program I wrote for the Mac OS a while back, and later offered a version that runs on Windows XP. It is free for all to download. I'll think about martial arts topics in the future.

As for Madeline Murray O'Hare saying that no intelligent person could possibly believe in god, I can understand the sentiment. You have to realise that the belief in God has little to do with intelligence, and everything to do with emotionalism. Recently, researchers discovered the spiritual part of the brain. They could induce volunteers to have a deep spiritual feeling by tampering with it. And guess what? This part of the brain was either in or near the emotional side of the brain - not near the logical/intellectual side.

I would like to go one better than O'Hare, and declare that no civilised person could eat meat.

: )

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Posted by: Stone on

10:29 PM  

If we have to give up meat, who the heck wants to be civilized?

How long have you been running seti@home? 3100 is impressive. I have no idea what my count is because I've run it on so many different machines (and sometimes different OSes on the same machine), but I might be at around 100 if I stretch it. Of course I've only been running it on and off for a year.

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Posted by: veggiedude on

11:42 PM  

I started SETI at the very beginning. I think it was 1997. I stopped for a period of about 10 months, otherwise, it has been a non-stop process for me. Today I mainly run it on my PowerBook, a 1Ghz machine which is never turned off.

Hopefully, our first contact aliens will be 'civilised', if you know what I mean. Otherwise, we might end up on the menu like in the Twilight Zone episode "To serve Mankind".

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Posted by: Stone on

7:36 PM  

I think any aliens that make an interstellar voyage will probably not have to worry about food. But that is a great episode of TZ. :)

Have you ever read Arthur C. Clarke's (with Gentry Lee) Rama series? It's got a Christian slant, but it's very interesting in that the aliens that come in contact with humans are nothing like humans.

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