Ohmygoodness!
Ohmygoodness! I love how Demille totally predates the Goth look. Man. Totally ahead of his time.
Now my only question is whether this is ironic or not. If it is ironic, then...tip-top awesome! If not, then just plain hilarious. "Does this mean I miss out on my Christmas holiday?" HAH! Jeez. The ONLY good reason not to be an atheist: presents!
Tip o' the hat to Skepchick for the link.
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So, I'm in school in the midwest. I'm a grad student, to be more precise, in religious studies. Yes, I know. An atheist, in religious studies. What was I thinking? I ask myself this sometimes, but I think skeptics and atheists do need to learn ABOUT religions. We might be some of the best people in the field, in fact, and there's been a large upsurge of at-least-agnostics studying religion recently, which is nice to see.
And please don't laugh at the grad students. We're just people who made terrible life choices. *sigh*
And what am I reading right now, you might ask? I know, thrilling!
For one, I'm reading Bonhoeffer for a class, his "Ethics." I just can't get into this book in the slightest. I find some parts of it, like his discussion of speech, quite interesting, and I feel like I could draw out useful bits of it. However, the vast majority is drawn up in the fact that the only possible basis for ethics is the Jesus. Seriously?
More on this later. Too much work tonight. Really just wanted to post the atheist video for giggles.
If anyone has extra tickets to TAM 6...um...please?
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Hi-larious
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Super Tuesday Madness
I am clicking refresh on CNN every five minutes for updates on the primaries.
THIS. HAS. TO. STOP.
I have so much homework to do, and it isn't getting any closer to being done by me obsessing over the results of the US primaries.
In other, more interesting news, I'm working at a library in Hidden Collections (Seriously, it just sounds sexy. Indiana Jones type stuff.), and I'm currently archiving peoples' papers who worked on the Manhattan Project. Only one was an actual physicist, the other two were brought in on biomedicine and the effects of radiation on biological systems. Still, it's absolutely fascinating. I don't claim to have a firm grasp of atomic/molecular/quantum physics, but I get most of the basics and some of the deeper issues. And these guys are way, way, way over my head most of the time. Nonetheless, it is fascinating material to work through. I mean, I'm handling actual letters by Einstein and Neils Bohr!
A large part of one collection was literature from the 1960's-1980's about nuclear proliferation and policy. I think I finally understand the paranoia that prevailed during the Cold War. Nuclear weapons...man...
There's also a helluva lot in their about the biomedical uses of radiation for diagnosis and treatment. This stuff is all incredibly interesting, especially since my mother is a nurse and I've always had an interest in medicine. I really wish I had more time just to pour through all of this detail by detail. But, that would kind of ruin the point of my job as a processor. Trouble, trouble.
I'll have a post sometime soon about my personal outlook on academia, the world, etc.
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