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vovat1. Maybe this is crazy on my part, but I don't really like following other people's cars, or other people following mine. The few times I've had to do that, it's worked out all right. Still, I'm always afraid that I'll lose them at a traffic light, or someone else will get in between us, or something like that.
2. I picked up The Tragic Treasury at a music store today. I've also read the first few chapters of The End. So far, no answers to any of the Big Mysteries in Lemony Snicket's series have been forthcoming.
3. Another thing I've been reading recently is Slate's Blogging the Bible series, in which a Jewish editor attempts to read the Bible all the way through, and comments on it as he goes. So far, he's gotten up through Judges. It's pretty interesting, and his take is neither overly snarky (like, say, the Skeptics' Annotated Bible, which I also enjoy) nor totally apologetic. He mentions both the good and the bad. I still hope to read the entire Bible someday myself, but I've only managed to get up through 1 Samuel so far.
4. You know what argument I'm tired of seeing? No, not "allowing gay marriage will also mean people will marry their pets" or "if you do [X], the terrorists win," although those are also pretty high up there. I'm talking about "if you don't believe in God, you're not accountable to anyone." Um, what about being accountable to society, and to your own conscience? It could also be argued that doing the right thing simply because you're concerned about how someone else will react to it is a mentality that we're supposed to grow out of, but that would be getting into some complicated issues of behavioral psychology and where morality comes from in the first place. Suffice it to say that people tend to share a lot of the same basic morals and ethics, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.
2. I picked up The Tragic Treasury at a music store today. I've also read the first few chapters of The End. So far, no answers to any of the Big Mysteries in Lemony Snicket's series have been forthcoming.
3. Another thing I've been reading recently is Slate's Blogging the Bible series, in which a Jewish editor attempts to read the Bible all the way through, and comments on it as he goes. So far, he's gotten up through Judges. It's pretty interesting, and his take is neither overly snarky (like, say, the Skeptics' Annotated Bible, which I also enjoy) nor totally apologetic. He mentions both the good and the bad. I still hope to read the entire Bible someday myself, but I've only managed to get up through 1 Samuel so far.
4. You know what argument I'm tired of seeing? No, not "allowing gay marriage will also mean people will marry their pets" or "if you do [X], the terrorists win," although those are also pretty high up there. I'm talking about "if you don't believe in God, you're not accountable to anyone." Um, what about being accountable to society, and to your own conscience? It could also be argued that doing the right thing simply because you're concerned about how someone else will react to it is a mentality that we're supposed to grow out of, but that would be getting into some complicated issues of behavioral psychology and where morality comes from in the first place. Suffice it to say that people tend to share a lot of the same basic morals and ethics, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.
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Date: 2006-10-19 06:54 pm (UTC)You can extrapolate that to all areas of my life, not just driving.
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Date: 2006-10-20 09:24 pm (UTC)