August 25, 2012
by Neil Rickert
Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82. This is a brief note celebrating the achievements of Neil Armstrong and his colleagues at NASA.
News reports:
I still remember watching that landing on TV. My son saw it too, but he was only a few months old so probably does not remember.
I see this as a time to celebrate his achievements, not as a time for sadness.
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August 25, 2012
by Neil Rickert
I have added a new category “humanism” as a partial response to a recent post by Jen. I expect to have occasional posts in that category.
So here are two links, that are at least slightly related:
- “Parables Of The Not-So-Social Gospel” is a fun read. It is an updated version of part of the gospels, written so as to truly represent what Christianity has become today.
- “Radical Feminism, the Unwitting Ally of ID and Creationism” is a criticism of Atheism+. It will either make your blood boil, or give you a good laugh. Silly me. I thought that “atheism+” was simply adding ordinary human decency to atheism, that there wasn’t anything radical about it. Perhaps I have never understood the meaning of “radical.”
I am taking the “good laugh” approach to the second of those links.
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