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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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The Profile  Zanzibar Age. 40 Gender. Female Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him Location Altadena, CA School. Other » More info. The Weather The World The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into: Samarinda Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is. The Phases of the Moon Module CURRENT MOON Writings
Poetry The Tree and the Telephone Pole The Spider I Do Not Know Their Names The Mouse Blindness La Plante The Moon Today I am Young A Night Poem Celestial Wandering Siren of the Sea If I Were a Dragon To the Dreamers Leave the Sky The Honor of the Oyster Return From San Diego War My Study Defeat A Late Summer's Night Of Dragons and Men Erebus The Edge of the World The Race Dragon's Spirit The Snake's Terror Spirit Island Metaphysics Metaphysica Transponderae Metaphysics and the Middaymoon Of Adventures in Foreign Lands The Rogue Wave: The Unedited Version Adventures in the PRC Voyage of Discovery Drinking the Blood of Goats Ticket for a Phantom Bus Os peixes nadam o mar Three Villages Far Away The River Weser Children I Should Have Kidnapped, Part I Let's Get You Out of Those Clothes Radishes Three-Piece-Lawsuit If Underwear Could Speak Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat 
My hero(s) Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER  Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee. The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration T: Cook a nice dinner W: PARKOUR! Th: Parties, movies, dinners F: Picnics, the Louvre S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR Su: Philosophy, Religion The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006 A Crocodile on the Sandbank Looking Backwards Wild Swans Exodus 1984 Tales of the Alhambra (in progress) Dark Lord of Derkholm Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Lost Years of Merlin Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress) Atlas Shrugged (in progress) Uglies Pretties Specials A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!) The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time From Magma to Tephra (in progress) Lady Chatterley's Lover Harry Potter 7 The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency Introduction to Planetary Volcanism A Child Called "It" Pompeii Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women? Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress) What's So Great About Christianity? Aeolian Geomorphology Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits The City of Ember The People of Sparks Cube Route When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard Bound The Golden Compass Clan of the Cave Bear The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip) The Incredible Shrinking Man Twilight Eclipse New Moon Breaking Dawn Armageddon's Children The Elves of Cintra The Gypsy Morph Animorphs #23: The Pretender Animorphs #25: The Extreme Animorphs #26: The Attack Crucial Conversations A Journey to the Center of the Earth A Great and Terrible Beauty The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Dandelion Wine To Sir, With Love London Calling Watership Down The Invisible Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Host The Hunger Games Catching Fire Shadows and Strongholds The Jungle Book Beatrice and Virgil Infidel Neuromancer The Help Flip Zion Andrews The Unit Princess Quantum Brain The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated Delirium Memento Nora Robopocalypse The Name of the Wind The Terror Sister Tao Te Ching What Paul Meant Lao Tzu and Taoism Libyan Sands Sand and Sandstones Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew The Science of God Calculating God Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill City of Bones Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne Divergent Stranger in a Strange Land The Old Man and the Sea Flowers for Algernon Au Bonheur des Ogres The Martian The Road to Serfdom De La Terre � la Lune (ip) In the Light of What We Know Devil in the White City 2312 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Red Mars How to Be a Good Wife A Mote in God's Eye A Gentleman in Russia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Seneca: Letters from a Stoic The Juanes Module  Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree. | The Curious Atheist Tuesday. 9.17.13 5:29 pm "Are you a believer?" W says, apropos of nothing. We are sitting in le m�tro, occupying two bucket seats set four inches apart. "A believer?" I ask, "like... in God?" "Yeah," he says. "Yeah," I say. For some reason it feels weird to say aloud. "How does it feel?" he asks. The train arrives. Nobody has ever asked me that question. From the look in his eye, it seems like an earnest one. "I guess it feels... calm. Just... calm Peaceful. If I can take a Buddhist example, it makes me feel like a still pond of water. That my internal existential angst is calmed, making my internal water flat, so that it can more accurately reflect the world." We get out of the train and onto the escalator. We move into talking about existentialism. W is the opposite of M. He brings out the pensive, Nutangian half of my persona. W is the weirdest kind of atheist: a curious atheist. An atheist who wishes they knew what it felt like to believe in something. In other news, my doctor told me that I should eat more vegetables, so I bought some carrots. Unfortunately you could only buy them by the bunch, so now I have 12 carrots. In other other news, I went to church and hung out with my political debate soul twin. He's a great person to talk about politics with because he has lots of information, a good attitude, lots of respect, and a completely original viewpoint. We've been talking about settling down. I want a dog, he wants a record player. Ok, so we've been talking about settling down in the abstract. But whatever. 2 Comments. Having grown up Christian and then moved away from the faith, I always find people who just never had any belief in anything a little odd. Also, carrots are the easiest vegetables to eat! You can just peel them and munch on them raw and they taste fine. Can't say the same for most other types. » randomjunk on 2013-09-17 06:46:20 I went to Catholic school when I was a kid until 5th grade, and continued in Sunday school after that through Confirmation. And then I continued going to church with my grandma until I left for college. But I really stopped believing in maybe 3rd or 4th grade. I realized Bible stories were merely metaphorical (but good still!) and found the rituals and dogma bizarre. I think people see religion as an answer to things unknown. I think science is a much better epistemological philosophy. Some very simple things in college helped me shape my philosophy. Studying the concept of true, justified belief being the foundation of knowledge, and studying Hindu philosophy. There is so much wisdom in classical Hindu philosophy that relates to the real world. It's not ritualistic or dogmatic at all, at least not what I'm talking about. Thinking of the world as consciousness vs. mind/body and training that perception has been immeasurably formative and enriching for the way I think about just about everything, and has certainly made me a much happier atheist. » le_battement on 2013-09-18 01:12:07
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