Monday, March 24, 2008
I Don't Believe in Atheists
Just saw Chris Hedges, the author of I Don't Believe in Atheists, speak at the Boulder Bookstore. He made some very interesting arguments about the dangers of both the radical believers and radical non-believers. His premise is that any radical belief system closes your mind to understanding. He also criticized the desire of groups to create Utopian societies, believing that this mindset is the truly dangerous one. I'd like to read his book - I'll put it on my endless Amazon wish list!
Second Glance
A fun, great, interesting book. Hurray!
This was interesting historically - investigating eugenics in America, and as an aside, how the Nazi regime used eugenics research as a basis for their ethnic cleansing program. But beyond that, the story was very entertaining and engaging. Lots of different characters with lives intertwined. Explorations about life and death and the importance and meaning of life.
I loved the first line: "Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or the third".
By the end of the book, Ross realizes it's not what you failed to do in your life that matters, but what you do accomplish.
Highly recommended for teens and adults.
This was interesting historically - investigating eugenics in America, and as an aside, how the Nazi regime used eugenics research as a basis for their ethnic cleansing program. But beyond that, the story was very entertaining and engaging. Lots of different characters with lives intertwined. Explorations about life and death and the importance and meaning of life.
I loved the first line: "Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or the third".
By the end of the book, Ross realizes it's not what you failed to do in your life that matters, but what you do accomplish.
Highly recommended for teens and adults.
Horton Hears a Who
UGH! Boring for me. I'm not a big Jim Carrey fan and it seems like Jr. High humor to me and it's been way too long since I've been in Jr. High.
My 10 year old loved it, however, and can't understand why I didn't think it was funny.
Both my husband and I were dozing off in the middle.
I'm not much of a movie critic, I usually like to be just entertained and don't go for the deeper meanings, but here, the deeper meaning was interesting, even though I thought the movie was horrible. What if WE were just on this speck of a planet and there were some larger creatures out there carrying our universe through space.
Or, forget about the larger creatures and just think of ourselves on a speck.
BTW, is space bigger than the universe or is the universe bigger than space? Is this one of those which came first questions?
Anyhow, this all comes from a spiritual agnostic. Now how do you like that for a contradiction in terms?
My 10 year old loved it, however, and can't understand why I didn't think it was funny.
Both my husband and I were dozing off in the middle.
I'm not much of a movie critic, I usually like to be just entertained and don't go for the deeper meanings, but here, the deeper meaning was interesting, even though I thought the movie was horrible. What if WE were just on this speck of a planet and there were some larger creatures out there carrying our universe through space.
Or, forget about the larger creatures and just think of ourselves on a speck.
BTW, is space bigger than the universe or is the universe bigger than space? Is this one of those which came first questions?
Anyhow, this all comes from a spiritual agnostic. Now how do you like that for a contradiction in terms?
First Post - Why
What am I doing? I don't like writing very much. However, I just spent yet another several hours with my husband's family, digging down deep to keep the conversation going and it was slightly less than torture. So, what did my left-brain come up with? Look on google to find out how to keep the conversation going.
Now, just to be clear, this is not usually difficult for me. But put me around family that I have little in common with and I'm left semi-speechless.
So, one of the things I will be doing here is helping out my poor little memory. What did I just read? What movie did I just see? These things seem to slip through my brain like a sieve.
Maybe because I'm so caught up in day-to-day life with two kids, graduate school, and life!
Oh, and why "The next 48?" Because I plan on living at least as long as I already have up to this point and this way, I'll remember some of it!
Now, just to be clear, this is not usually difficult for me. But put me around family that I have little in common with and I'm left semi-speechless.
So, one of the things I will be doing here is helping out my poor little memory. What did I just read? What movie did I just see? These things seem to slip through my brain like a sieve.
Maybe because I'm so caught up in day-to-day life with two kids, graduate school, and life!
Oh, and why "The next 48?" Because I plan on living at least as long as I already have up to this point and this way, I'll remember some of it!
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