tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48218873589304485542024-03-08T15:45:49.823-08:00Missionary ImpossibleBlogging provides the perfect opportunity for you to treat your brain at least as well as you treat your dog: take it out for a little exercise once in a while, let it sniff everyone else's garbage and poop in someone else's yard.Conan Drumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-25474398702535509202007-03-19T05:59:00.000-07:002007-03-19T06:42:25.047-07:00One more harm of categorizingCoturnix compiled the following list of behaviors and conditions as examples of what people might be referring to when they speak of being "spiritual"[ I added the last two]: A) People who really believe in ghosts, spirits, talking with the dead and Ouija boards.B) People currently under the influence of LSDC) People who get the strong emotional feelings of awe when contemplating the vastness of Conan Drumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-23354908743032916582007-03-01T18:14:00.000-08:002007-03-01T19:58:03.293-08:00The gods must be craziesVisitors who have some religious faith, do not be put off by the post title: it bears on a much narrower and more realistic matter than it may imply. Not only are you welcome here, you probably have the most important things to say.I am curious: in America, one of the stereotypes of madness we on the outside of mental hospitals used to hold was of the fellow who was convinced that he was god or Conan Drumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4821887358930448554.post-69398976575475996112007-02-28T12:21:00.000-08:002007-03-02T17:41:08.794-08:00Missionary Impossible: our mission, should you choose to join it...Most people are not interested in discussing their beliefs unless it is only to have those beliefs affirmed. This precludes productive debate, invites stasis and protects less than just, less than benign, beliefs. There are arguments no one ever wins in the sense of all parties coming to a consensus PoV. These are the arguments that betray the weakness of the human mind, the imbalance of Conan Drumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18354727384775177791noreply@blogger.com4