Monthly Archives: January, 2011

Send Us Your Virgins: A Recap of the 1/30/11 Freethinkers Meetup

A recap of last Sunday's FF meetup at Starbucks-Anson's.

Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth, and diligently do your appointed work

Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth, and diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child; settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting…

God is good…all the time

Perhaps many are familiar with those reassuring words that Christians often say in church and during good times, but few people probably know that they came from a song.

Freethinker Music Weekly

Music is one of mankind's greatest achievements as far as self-expression is concerned. If you think about it, music wasn't a...

Forty-four Thoughts of a Founding Freethinker

While the world watches Egypt in revolution, many are unaware that almost three centuries today, one of the greatest revolutionaries was...

Things That Are Bullshit: Martyrdom

People dying for something they believe in, for something they are fighting for. It sounds noble. It sounds heroic. It makes...

Knowledge

I've been asked many times how I know that my understanding of the world is correct, and that the assertions of others are incorrect. Well, yes, one could empirically verify one's assertions, but then he might be asked how the conclusions drawn from this process can be known to be true.

The Height of Hypocrisy: CBCP Proactive Against HIV/AIDS

We need to construct a compelling prevention narrative... One that inspires countries to mount permanent prevention campaigns that are socially inclusive,...

Colors of the Wind

You think I’m an ignorant savage. And you’ve been so many places; I guess it must be so. But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me. Now can there be so much that you don’t know? You don’t know…”

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