Crepeville and Freethinkers
What a turnout! At least twenty people showed up tonight to the Davis Area FreeThinkers group at the Crêpeville downtown! I'm going to talk to the owners and see if we can't make this a permanent venue...
View ArticleGhost Hunters
Benjamin Radford has a hard-hitting piece about ghosts that lays out many of the questions and logical contradictions raised by ghost claims. The number one problem, like the god problem, is in tacking...
View ArticleTen Years
My journey from AA to atheism took about five years and on February 3rd I will have been sober for ten years total. I can't pinpoint the exact moment in 2008 that I realized I didn't believe in God,...
View ArticleHilarious
Adam Lee will only accept a "cease-fire" in the atheist community if Justin Vacula accepts his terms.Don't make threats of rape or other violence. Don't use sexist slurs like "bitch" or "cunt" to...
View ArticleCommunity
Many atheists don't feel the need to organize. Some of them join local groups but don't do much more than just meeting and making like-minded friends. One thing that came up in my local group, however,...
View ArticleBlock yourself, fool.
I found this lovely apologia of the twitter campaign to suspend accounts on oolon's blog , which I found as a referring link on my stats page (thanks for the traffic, but I doubt it will get me many...
View ArticleBig Brothifurret teaches a lesson on twitter.
Jen McCreight succinctly explains to a twitterer how the world really works.Should Dawkins answer for his tweet that called ivory poachers barbaric? The way his detractors have twisted the word...
View ArticleAt the top of my rss feed list, Talking Philosophy
I don't talk nearly enough about philosophy on this blog, so I'm going to promote Talking Philosophy, one of my favorite blogs I've found so far.From excellent thought experiments to breaking down...
View ArticleGoals for a Movement.
I read something that touched me and I'd like to share it. Maria Maltseva's recent post with you. She writes over at the Skeptic Ink Network and many of her views mirror my own, but she's much more...
View ArticleLife of Pi: Major Spoilers
I'm going to talk about both the book and the movie, Life of Pi. I'm going to be talking mostly about the ending. If you haven't seen the movie or read the book and want to, I suggest you skip this...
View ArticleSxsw Reddit Panel.
I know a load of people have already weighed in on this "controversy" and why having a one-sided panel of people who hate reddit trying to describe reddit's impact on the web is a problem, but I'm...
View ArticleCalifornia and Private Online Universities
My state is trying to require public universities to accept credit from online colleges. This is pretty much a huge mistake as written. The standards of private online universities are all over the...
View ArticleChatterton on Morality.
957 Chatterton has a post up titled, "What is Morality?" Well, that's an excellent question and since here at Atheist Morality, I haven't touched on that subject for quite some time, I suppose I'll...
View ArticleWhat Happened to You, Feminism?
For the record, I appreciate everything feminism has done for women: voting and reproduction rights, a fight for equal treatment under the law, the breaking of barriers in the workplace, etc. But...
View ArticleNotung Discusses Shermer's Claim About Science and Morality
Notung, who writes at SkepticInk has a new post up about science and morality. He is weighing in on Michael Shermer's claim that "science can somehow weigh in on issues of morality."He begins with a...
View ArticleAAI Trivializing Harassment.
Yesterday, Atheist Alliance International tweeted to Vjack's awesome Atheist Revolution article, "Understanding Harassment."They were automatically met with divisive and misleading tweets by Rebecca...
View ArticleDAFT is having a Blasphemy Brunch
The Davis Area FreeThinkers group Crépe meetup is such a success that we're going to have a Blasphemy Brunch next month about halfway from the next meetuo. The dinner is very informal and no matter how...
View ArticleMore about "Recovery."
There's been a lot of chatter on some of my favorite blogs lately about Alcoholics Anonymous and how the organization is dealing with a growing number of groups that don't believe in God (mostly...
View ArticleAAI Update
Vjack at Atheist Revolution is a model of grace and open, civil discussion. He provides an update to the AAI apology and a clarification on his original post, showing exactly where the detractors went...
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A New Leaf? Updated
EDIT!Cool! She answered me and approved my comment. I'm still a little careful about what I'm saying because she felt I was "veering into derailment territory," which was not my intention at all. It's...
View ArticleMore on Civility.
I'm really liking what I'm seeing at Ellen Beth Wach's blog. People are being met on a level of discourse and reasonableness I have rarely seen in the FtB forums. With each new comment, I'm afraid the...
View ArticleThirty-Two Days Left To Raise Ninety-Eight Dollars!
If you feel so obliged, hop on over to my Tour de Cure page to donate to my fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. I'm just under $100 from my goal of raising $500. You will get the...
View ArticleDisqus
I've decided I'm going to attempt to convert the comment section to Disqus. I don't know what results I'll get when I try to import all the comments into the Disqus system. Could be bad, could be good....
View ArticleThis May Seem Drastic, But I'm Leaving Blogger.
I tried importing comments to Disqus and Blogger just doesn't play nice. I've long hated Blogger's comment section, it's strange nesting of replies, the fact that it's java script and won't allow...
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