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( Oct. 14th, 2012 09:19 pm)
*rubs face* Right. The past week or so has been a cluster of really heavy, often painful, and sometimes aggressive conversations in my family. (Clusters like that tend to happen occasionally, when too many factors converge on too many people - they also tend to domino). Because some of those discussion are my mother and sister attempting to navigate the differences between their general understandings of things versus mine and my father's (with some big differences emerging between the two of them, too, and some between my father and I, but, y'know, different people, even outside of the gross divides of brain chemistry), my mother started researching Aspergers again. (Which, as a general response, I can't fault. When in doubt, acquire more information).

There were a lot of things that bubbled up during the week, most of which I don't really want to talk about. But there was one thing, because my mam was reading Baron-Cohen and it came up, that sort of fascinated me.

In the book she was reading, the author said two things that impacted me (not sure about the rest).

Okay. Some musings on the concepts of virtue, specifically in relation to religion. (And you can blame, at least in part, Saiyuki, Havelock Vetinari, and Good Omens. Who says fiction doesn't make you think?)

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( May. 30th, 2011 06:28 pm)
The World Which Does Not Speak:
Accepting Uncertainty


Okay. This is me, sounding something out within myself. Feel free to ignore it as the ramblings of a flibbertigibbet, if you wish. You may not be wrong. Heh. Asperger's, agnosticism, asexuality (I like 'a' identities, I think) and a few other things throw in. It connects, I think. It weaves together

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( May. 18th, 2011 01:58 pm)
Religion again, skip as required.

Okay, one, I really need to stop having arguments with people. It does no-one any good. Especially as I have an exam in about an hour, and can't afford to be distracted. So. Just to clear the muddle in my head:

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( Sep. 26th, 2010 10:08 pm)
Okay. This is about Religion, and other shared belief systems. Skip as required. This is basically the end result of a long series of conversations with a number of people, both recently and in spurts over the years, that asked me to either take a definitive position, or explain why I wouldn't. Voila. Here you go.

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( Sep. 5th, 2007 11:05 pm)

I am possibly the most erratic person I have ever met! If I could hold on to a regular train of thought for long enough to get it down, I would be so much more productive, and probably just a bit richer than I am now. As it is, I probably wouldn't even have the patience to attend my own funeral!

Hopefully, at some point in the near future (ie the next month or so), I will manage to get some work done on something. I have been pondering a lovely train of thought that logically disproves the existence of God as defined by human notions, which I should probably write down somewhere, but I'm wary of offending the Big Guy, as I'm rather fond of him, actually. It's odd, knowing someone is there, while at the same time knowing they couldn't possibly be there at all. Even odder still when one is as vehemently anti-religious as I am. 

Don't get me wrong. Faith is a wonderful thing. I just dislike the notion of organising it into categories and going to war over petty differences between them. It annoys me that something that should be a powerful unifying force should become something so fundamentally divisive and segregated. I am fairly sure the force exists, and the only reason I call him God, or call him a him, for that matter, is because I was raised a Roman Catholic, and old habits die hard. I have no problem at all with other views on the nature of what I call God. I just don;t like it when people with different views start fighting over who's right and who's wrong, when in all likelyhood, both none and all of them are right. I sometimes hope that he/she/it isn't paying as close attention to us as we seem to think, because if I had to listen to all the crap that gets spouted, I'd be weeping for eternity.

Ooookay. Don't know what brought that on. Going to moesy on now.

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