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This is the central location where
I
announce additions or changes at Every Fork
in the Road dot org. It's also kinda like a journal of thoughts and/or
events having to do with me and my life (some might refer to it as a Blog [which
is short for Web Log]).
To
join my "What's Up?" mailing list, please see my notes about it at the bottom
of this page.
[The most recent entry will be at the top in this format:
yyyymmdd_HHmm and
possibly even ss if appropriate]
20070420
In a 'Breaking News' alert from ABC news this afternoon, the news was as
follows...
"VIRGINIA TECH KILLER'S FAMILY MAKES FIRST PUBLIC
REMARKS SINCE MASSACRE: WE 'NEVER COULD HAVE ENVISIONED THAT HE WAS
CAPABLE OF SO MUCH VIOLENCE'"
People always say this kind of bullshit, in every tragic shooting like
this, and it's very annoying to me. The truth is, we're all capable of
it, and the only reason people say stuff like this is because they are
either ignorant of or in denial about the nature of living organisms;
specifically those human primate characters.
We see this (violence toward other members of one's same organism or
even clan or family) in other organisms. Add our brain power in there
and BLAMMO!! Why is it so hard to comprehend that someone could be
capable of doing that kind of stuff?
Shocking? Yes.
Horrible? Yes.
Unnacceptable? Yes.
Worthy of being investigated so we can attempt to avoid or cut short
such events in the future? Yes.
Surprising? No.
20070416
Two hours?!?!?
20061210
Tonight, I renamed my section about beliefs, believers and the act of
believing.
The new name is "the Pathology of Magical Thinking".
Here's the link.
20061115
Recently I've finally been getting around to a few things in my
Paleontology section.
I'll start posting bits and pieces here for a while.
First off, I've uploaded some paleo reports from Dan Woehr (a friend of
a friend in Texas).
Here's the link ...By the way, due to the size of the reports, I put
Dan's stuff in a password protected area (which I'll probably do with
all like materials....just to make sure the bandwidth is actually going
to legitimate traffic). Contact me for the details.
20061111
This morning I discovered a web site that I think a lot of you might
like to check out.
It's called Losingmyreligion.com. Their banner statement (on the site
and on their merchandise) is
"Stay home Sundays, Save 10%".
The tag line in the search results on Google is, "Ex-Christians helping
Christians break the shackles of their religion by encouraging them to
think."
Here's the link to their site.
20061009 - No Ma'am
Today I added a new section to the Nature and Science area of my
website.
It's called "Interesting
Facts about Evolution". Here's an excerpt from the first entry...
"...While watching some nature program
on dolphins and whales on PBS this evening, something near the end of
the show really caught my attention. It had to do with a difference
between the males and females of the particular species they were
talking about off the coast of Seattle, Washington, USA..."
20060606 [666]
In honor of June sixth, Two Thousand and six (666),
Here's a snippet from an e-mail message I sent to a friend on this
glorious occasion...
Further 'special' revelation...
(that's how they refer to God speaking to believers in post-Biblical
times ;)
The true 'mark of the beast' is that, in the last days, people will
begin to actually think for them selves; spreading reason and
intellectual awareness; inviting others to ask questions; causing
bouts of wonder and curiosity; leading them to examine and investigate
extraordinary claims regarding unknowable things.
WARNING, My children:
Beware of thinking for your self. Prolonged exposure to thoughts other
than those provided for you by your religion or philosophy of choice may
lead to an acute case of dontbelieveanythingensis.
In honor of this 'Word from the Lord', and in honor of this last day, I
have made a few changes to the look and feel of my web site.
Today, I changed the word "think" on some pages to the numbers "666".
20060429
Today I added what sort of amounts to a review of an article about
critical thinking in Skeptical Inquirer magazine. The article was
pointed out to me by my friend, Tom.
Here's the link.
20060322
This morning, I added a new section within another previously existing
section that was there before I created this new one. [Ya, you heard it
the right way correctly]
The new section is called
"et cetera, et cetera:
a discordant cacophony of redundancy at Every Fork in the Road"
It's the recently, newly renamed sub-section within another section which I
previously used to call "Redundant
Redundancies".
I didn't add anything new to it other than the new title, subtitle and a
few comments, but
here's the link.
20060312
There's something new at Every Fork in the Road;
a new section about
humor and comedy.
20060312
Nothing big this time, but just a funny statement by a local news
anchor.
Here's the link.
20060228
Ok, I guess this entertainment thing is really working out well at this
point. Three days in a row with an entry on my site that was inspired by
something I heard while watching TV.
This is the first entry in my new section about humor and comedy.
Here's the
link.
20060227
I know, you're thinking, "What's up with this guy? We don't hear from
him for months and then, BAMM!!! he puts up two new pages in as many
days?"
Well, yep. This one, once again, is from my TV viewing. I guess it's
kind of like some kind of karmaic pay-back for watching too much TV in
the first place. The only difference is how close to home this one
really hits.
Here's the link.
20060226 (XX Olympic Closing Ceremony)
This one is about something I heard while watching the NBC coverage of
the closing ceremony of the XX Olympic Games. Though it really doesn't
carry much weight,
here's the link.
20060212
Happy Darwin Day!!!
Each year, on February 12th (the anniversary of the birth of Charles
Darwin ('Natural Selection'), I join the Darwin Day Program in
celebrating
20060125
Today I created a new section about Religion in the Public Arena.
The link to the inaugural article is
here.
20060101
(this entry is still in process....I'm writing it right now...)
I just realized something about my self which some of you might find
very interesting. It has to do with the difference between fiction and
reality. Specifically, I'm thinking about stories; i.e. books, TV shows,
movies, etc.
For many years, I've told people (and actually thought my self) that I
don't really like fiction very much. I figure, with my passion for
learning, "Why waste my time and brain cells on made-up stuff when
there's already so much to know that's actually real?"
I usually prefer documentaries and such. Even if it involves a certain
amount of fiction (i.e. hypothetical suggestions and intelligent,
educated extrapolations, etc) for the sake of 'imagining what might have
been', or considering the possibilities of 'how it got this way', as
long as it's just a small portion of the material involved, it doesn't
turn me off. We have the skill of imagination. So, why not put it to use
in ways that can actually help?
Now though, as I was pondering my residual bad mood after driving on the
highway today, I realized that, I've never experienced such a thing from
reading or listening to or watching some fictional presentation (nor
have I had such experiences from reading or watching non-fiction, but
that's not my point...you weren't supposed to think of that point :).
Of course there's a place for fiction. It's all about fantasy. There's
no way that real life experiences could ever live up to that which we
can imagine because we can always imagine something better.
The idealist in me help keeps fueling my fantasy life.
The realist in me keeps me from totally jumping off the fictional
deep-end.
Blah, blah, blah......
It's late at night. I'm not really sure where I was going with all that,
but, at least I can say that I'd rather spend my time learning than
being entertained.
I'd also rather be able to drive all alone on my own highway without all
those assholes cutting me off, driving slow in the passing lane,
tail-gating in the right lane, crossing the yellow lines around curves,
changing lanes and turning without signals, using signals in turn-only
lanes, yielding at stop-signs and stopping at yield-signs and all of the
other dangerous and maddening things you do with motor vehicles out
there. ... and that's one fantasy that I'm pretty sure will never come
true.
Don't get me wrong... I love and care about all people, but that doesn't
mean I have to like the way you drive.
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