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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Archive for June, 2007

Open Mind, Empty Mind

Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Site log / Geek | 3 Comments »

Well, I'm honored (and a little embarrassed) that Darrell Hamsa Grizzell has awarded me the Open Mind Blogger Award, a recognition of "respect towards others, research and consideration of opposing views, free-flowing conversation with commenters, and an overall spirit of ...

Writing my first Firefox extensions

Sunday, June 24th, 2007 Posted in Language, Site log / Geek | 1 Comment »

Okay, if you're tired of hearing me tell you that you should get Firefox, don't worry... that's not what this post is about. However, if you do use Firefox, you probably know that its rendering is only a part of ...

Exotheism

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 19 Comments »

I recently got a call from an old friend whom I hadn't heard from in ages. He and I were part of the same radical Pentecostal campus fellowship a couple of decades ago, but I got a sense that his ...

Whew!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | 5 Comments »

It's busy here, and will be for a while. Besides maintaining our current code, I'm studying Object-Oriented Programming, C#, and ASP.net—oh, yeah, and when I get a chance, which isn't often—Catalan. Just upgraded my system's RAM today, since it had ...

Shaking up and chillin’ out

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Poetry | 3 Comments »

On Monday, it was announced at my work that we're changing platforms. That sounds minor, but for people who have spent years honing their talents in PHP, it's not. Many of my co-workers are having to seek positions in other ...

Hofstadter and this last week

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 7 Comments »

This week has been good. To explain it, I'm going to have to start with my college days. During my undergrad years in El Paso, I was in an extremely conservative congregation. My desire to know God had been subverted, ...