I am not a theologian, but if you are .. or even have knowledge, please read on and let me know your thoughts.
For the longest time I was taught that an atheist is someone who does not believe in ‘a god’.
BUT
On more than a few times recently I have heard it defined as not believing in ‘religion’.
In my mind, ‘god’ and ‘religion’ are not interchangeable.
Has the definition changed through the morphing of language, or is the refined definition just wrong?
If the latter, who’s agenda is it serving to push that narrative?
For the record … I define myself as an agnostic, a classification that seems to not be as common as it once was, which makes me wonder if the spectrum of religious belief has become as polarized as that of politics … and that maybe people are using ‘atheist’ when they mean ‘ agnostic’, maybe even spurred on by the Fry, Hitchens and Dawkins debates that don’t seem to allow for that grey area.
Would welcome considered thought from you all.
🖋️ Class Action Against Uber and Lyft
One of a series of posts that came from one of my many blogs that I am slowly consolidating into this canonical reference. The old blog was with specific regard to ‘all things Uber’.
The PowerPhotos upgrade looks like a good one.
I was just thinking just the other day how this needs to be made easier and voila - it’s made easier.
Sign in with” anything – and save it in 1Password
Via @mattbirchler
“Posers in positions of owners”
I wrote this down without the source, sorry - the conversation was around ‘business threats’.
There is NOTHING ‘Soft’ about ‘Soft Skills’ … yet another military term adopted by business.
I had a theory years ago that Apple were going to disinter-mediate the carriers … and zilch.
How they do it … I don’t know … but it has to be on their radar.
“While Apple’s stated goals will be only iMessage and Find My, followed by IoT, in the longer run Cupertino plans to dis-intermediate the mobile carriers — becoming themselves a satellite-based global phone and data company. That will require shifting over additional Globalstar bandwidth plus launching another 300-600 satellites, so it is several years away but IS coming.”
💬 Robert Cringely
How Lobbyists from the Auto Industry Invented Jaywalking
I have only ever had 3 tickets issued to me by the po-lice.
Jaywalking was one of them … and therein lies a story.
🔗😂 How Do We Know How Old Things Like Dinosaur Bones Are?
“There’s an old joke told in natural history museums about a new tour guide showing around a group of visitors. Stopping before a dinosaur skeleton, he informs the group that the fossil remains are 80 million years and three weeks old. “How do you know that?” asks one of the visitors. “Because it was 80 million when I started,” says the guide.”
Trump Voters Need a New Direction
“ I never meet Americans who love America more than Trump people do. They really love it—its history, what it means in the world, what it’s done.
💬 Peggy Noonan
Early Mid Journey experiment.
Text: “the impact of no income for work in the style of Constable”
Interesting how the majority of the vision remains on ‘terra firma’- but introduces a minor replication of same in the ‘cloud’.
Twenty years. it’s a start. Reminds me of a cartoon I saw…
Can you be a ‘phony’ and a ‘leaker’?
“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”
💬 Peter Kropotkin
5th Session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic starts in 25 minutes … live conversation with a few of us across 3 continents who like to read books … let me know if you’d like to join us .. I’ll send you the zoom link.
“There are some aspects of its design that are clearly iPhone-inspired — the basic shape, flat sides, button shapes even.”
… gawd … no quote attribution for a reason.
Moving through my news feeds at a pace this morning … it’s like a giant echo chamber of ‘told you so’.
There IS hope.
Yang has left the Dems.
EEJIT
🎬 🎵 There is a new movie from New Zealand coming out … the entire dialogue is gibberish
My mind went back to 1969 when Eric Sykes launched Rhubarb on to the world.
Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.
💬 Nick Cave
Dr Leon Winer’s idea processing article
Dave Winer’s dad talking about his ‘idea processor’ … and explaining why it is not a ‘‘word processor’ - the paper leans heavily on the work of @dave .. something that Nick Milo should enjoy.