Old Whig's Brain Dump

"...was not simply one of the mystery religions like Mithraism, but rather, Mithraism plus an ethical system from one of the philosophi...

"The amazing realization of evolution by natural selection is that the interaction of environments with traits can all by itself, over ...

My wife was talking to...somebody, and I heard her say, "He acts like that all the time now." I understood "that" to mea...

Hallelujah It's a beautiful, evocative song. It evoked these thoughts. Just before my 27th birthday, my Grandfather died . I went d...

http://youtu.be/pX4LvKvIWJw Hmm. Does this work better? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX4LvKvIWJw

De Natura Deorum This bit, from the introduction by H. Rackham, pp. viii-ix, sounds like what I've heard of Gnosticism: Stoic Theolo...

For those who want to be stronger, faster and higher flying than I ever got to be, I have two helpful hints: 1. Gymnastics/acrobatics and p...

I'll just have to send you here.

Quote from "Heretics and Heresies": The real Bible is not the work of inspired men, nor prophets, nor apostles, nor evangelists,...

[Science] found the world at the mercy of disease and famine; men trying to read their fates in the stars, and to tell their fortunes by sig...

From Why I Became an Atheist ... uh, I... Oh, here it is.  I had printed out a page from the free pdf on his webpage.  It's on page 9-...

The PDF , page 473, which the introduction to the chapter "To Voltaire" in the Correspondence section.  Tell me this doesn't s...