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Yesterday, I listened to a lecture called Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirkey. It mainly dealt with the question of how we could use what he calls the "cognitive surplus", or spare time and effort that we can put toward anything from creating high art to watching TV. At one point, the discussion focused on Twitter, and how some people decry it as a symptom of the death of "proper" communication. Shirkey made an argument for the opposite that I found interesting. ...
With a Canadian federal election just a few days away, I thought I would do a blog post about the role religion has played in the platforms of the parties and the campaigns so far. However, when I went looking for the religion on the campaign trail, I discovered that it was barely to be found. All the party leaders have had the obligatory photo-ops at various religious events, but these - such as Ignatieff and Layton's appearances at the Sikh Khalsa Day parade in Toronto - seemed to ...
Updated 04-29-2011 at 05:25 PM by Penguin
So... this evening at the mall, I was approached by a guy who really wanted two things: to find out what I thought happened when we die, and to give me a pamphlet entitled "The Final Judgement". I'm normally a pretty laid-back guy, but I got mad at him. Really mad. Our conversation started with me obviously pissed off and went downhill from there. It finally ended with me telling him that I'd go get mall security if he wouldn't leave me alone. I can chalk some ...
Okay... I'm generally opposed to the idea that we have a taxpayer-funded religious school system in my province, but a couple of specific things have been really bugging me lately. First: when we got our property tax assessment, there was a new form inside... something like this (not my school board's form, but similar). Here's what it's for: legally, property taxes from non-Catholics can't go to Catholic schools. This includes cases where a property is jointly owned by a ...
Updated 02-18-2010 at 02:52 PM by Penguin
Every Christmas, when I go to the mall, I get discouraged and a bit angry. It's those red Salvation Army buckets. I'm not mad at the Salvation Army, though. I'm mad at you. And me. And all the other non-theists and secularists who have dropped the ball to the extent that this evangelical Christian church has become, in their words (which I suspect are correct), "the largest non-governmental direct provider of social services in Canada". The problem I see isn't ...
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