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[phinnia]

lazy day, but still full of realizations and possibilities. and sunshine.

from the marvelous brightflashes: singing began in fish, and was perfected by birds. It's fascinating; it turns out birds and humans sing in the same way, and some of the research they're doing will reflect in treating speech impediments.

from the most excellent foxestacado: the curious case of the arkansas diamonds. (the title sounds like a sherlock holmes story, and I think the contents are just as interesting.)

and from littlemissgg, who is awesome: man refuses to drive 'atheist' bus.

I can see where he's coming from, to a certain extent, I suppose. it bothers me that atheism doesn't seem to have the same level of freedom of expression here, that athiests are listed way up there on the scary scale (I forget where it was on the list of people's fears, but it was up there, somewhere in the top twenty for sure.) I get what was said in the article: I have difficulty understanding why people with particular religious beliefs find the expression of a different sort of beliefs to be offensive. I can't understand why some people seem to have a different attitude when it comes to atheists." I guess it's in the correlation of religion to morals, and thus atheism equals lack of morals. Which is untrue, but apparently not uncommon to believe. *sigh*

anyway. i have to shower. ta.

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

The only problems I have with atheists come from the radical parts of the group, as is the case with everything involving religion or the lack thereof - the "Freedom From Religion" crowd, for example, which feels to me like it's missing the point. Contrast to some of my other good internet-based friends who simply don't believe in anything and that's the end of their involvement. Well, unless they're observing parallel religious ethical codes in relation to the rationalist philosophy movement, but that's a different case.

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Ooo songbird research! In my creativity project, in partnership with the Tenennbaum Institute for the Biology of Creativity, we work closely with a woman who does bird songs and human creativity.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Atheists the most feared minority/religious group in the US, at least.

Friday someone at work was saying that a problem with the decay in the US was people leaving the church and thus not having morals any more. So yes. Very common belief. I hear the "but where do you get your morality?" thing all the time.

Really love the Methodist's response though, and that made me feel better about the matter. I grew up Catholic with a very strong history of "what good is faith if you don't question it? How do you know the strength of something if you don't test it?" education. So the whole idea of being offended by someone implying that there is no good is just feeble-mindedness, really.

[awils1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links!

Personally, I’m of the opinion that the majority fear atheists because they come across (as they should, but that is beside the point) as knowing there is nothing, and aren’t ashamed of speaking about it, and this scares the beejesus (excuse the pun) out of most people. It is a double-standard, as the religious express certainty towards their knowledge, but we haven’t, as a society, got out of the habit of mental bias towards religion yet.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I hadn't thought about that aspect of it. <3 thank you!

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

(I nurr.  "theist", thus "atheist".)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

fixed. sorry; brain knows, fingers typo.

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Apologies for being Captain Pickypants.  I usually let typos slide, as I speak fluent gist and am not myself free of typos, but that one bugs me forever.

To make up for if that was rude of me:

http://www.randomkittengenerator.com/

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I completely understand this sort of thing - certain things that bother the living crap out of you - I have them, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you one right at the current moment, because none of them are currently bothering me. So I understand if this is one of yours.

That said, that is possibly the best link I have ever seen, and I really needed it right when that comment hit my mail box. So, thank you for that. <3