Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Year: 2024
Back to dogs! (And apologies if there are some that I have shown before!)
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Both the above are Photos by Chewy on Unsplash
And so is this one of the starry night.
And yet another photo from Chewy!
Photo by Anna Dudkova on Unsplash
Aren’t they fabulous!
This poster will be displayed frequently until October 19th.
Author’s Innovative Marketing (AIM) is pleased to present a unique opportunity to dip into the minds of eight local authors, on Saturday, October 19th, 2024. Why Write is a free event taking place in the lobby and conference room at Club Northwest, 2160 NW Vine St., in Grants Pass from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Two panels of four authors each are scheduled to speak about why they write at 1:30 and at 3:00 pm. Hear about their backgrounds, what inspires their writing, how writing benefits them, and be able to ask questions. Talk with the authors and purchase signed copies of their books before and after the panel sessions. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. For more information, please visit Authors Innovative Marketing website.
If you are at all within range of Grants Pass, we would love to see you at the event.
August has produced a find video and it is presented today.
August Hunicke has completed the editing of the video he shot while taking down the very tall trees alongside our house on the 24th and 25th of last September.
It is shared with all of you today.
When a Smooth Job Meets Bad Company
The team involved in the project were shown in this previous post.
A fascinating article makes a fundamental point.
My mother and father were atheists so when I was born in 1944 it was obvious that I would be brought up as an atheist. Same for my sister, Elizabeth, born in 1948. It was amazing that when I met Jean in Mexico in 2007 that she, too, was an atheist. That was on top of the fact that we were both born in North London some 26 miles apart. Talk about fate!
So naturally my attention was drawn to a recent article in Free Enquiry magazine, Thinking Made Me an Atheist.
That article opens as follows:
I was abused as a child. The abuse to which I was subjected is called “child indoctrination,” a type of brainwashing considered noble and necessary and, therefore, the most natural thing in the world.
My mother took me to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, an American denomination known for keeping the Sabbath and emphasizing the advent, or return, of Jesus. Adventists boast that they are the only ones to interpret the Bible the way its author wanted. Consequently, they deem themselves the most special creatures to God—so special that they’ll soon arouse the envy and wrath of all other denominations and religions, which, under the command of the beasts of Revelation (the American government and the Catholic Church), will persecute them. Adventists believe that the Earth was created in six days, that it is 6,000 years old, and that dinosaurs are extinct because they were too big to be saved on Noah’s ark.
It closes thus:
I don’t want to believe; I want to know. Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty.
The author of the article, Paulo Bittencourt is described as:
Paulo Bittencourt was born in Castro, Brazil, spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro, and studied theology in São Paulo. Close to becoming a pastor, he went on an adventure to Europe and ended up settling in Austria, where he trained as an opera singer. Bittencourt is the author of the books Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker and Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist.
So once again, do read this article.
We sincerely believe there is no god!
Learning from Dogs 