The Unreasonable Rationalist
© 2008 by Kraig Mottar
© 2008 by Kraig Mottar
The Unreasonable Rationalist is [to be] a magazine, originally conceived to publish religious, spiritual, philosophical, political, etc,. Articles, then it occurred that those topics are potentially boring to some people, by mention of just those descriptions. Then it was and is thought, that there will stories, short stories, poetry, etc and articles of general interest about hobbies, happenings around town, etc, etc. And the etc's may have the most draw..
The Unreasonable Rationalist will have broad appeal to all, even those who are bored by this or that topic or subject matter, as the magazine nor its publisher will necessarily have any particular axe to grind, not shy away from anything due to personal disagreement, as the other side will also be published. Those who are usually bored by say, politics and religion, but not always, may be attracted by parts of the magazine they do like, and by chance see something on politics, religion, or whatever, that may by chance grab them in..
The Unreasonable Rationalist will not be Christian, atheist, or whatever; it will not be Republican, Democrat, Communist, anarchist, or anything else; but will publish all those topics, side by side.
There are Christian and atheist magazines and there are Republican, Democrat, Communist, anarchist, etc magazines, they are devoted to their cause, field of interest, or point of view, and often, passionately so. They waste their time and effort, since the only ones who can or will ever read what they publish are people who already agree with it. How pointless and counterproductive is that?
6 comments:
Comments on the movie Religulous
I’m a fan of Bill Maher. He says thing that people in the media are afraid to say. I don’t like the idea of our government run by people who believe that the world will end and that this is a good thing.
He got a lot of things right. Questioning our beliefs is essential. We need to be a lot more skeptical about the things we are told. He pointed out the silliness of a lot of religious beliefs and wondered why people took so much on faith. Certainly it makes sense that important matters like war and who we choose to run our country should be based more on reason rather than blind faith. At the very least, faith needs to be questioned.
I have often wondered why, if God wanted us to follow a set of instructions, he didn’t write them in stone somewhere for everyone to see, instead of passing them out through a series of prophets and leaving it to us to decide which ones to believe and which ones were just plain crazy.
The film seemed heavily edited to distort the message of the people interviewed. It seemed to me that Maher’s wisecracks were edited in later, because the person being interviewed did not respond to these remarks, as one would expect.
I disagreed with his claim that religious moderates are enablers of religious extremists.
Several Muslims that he interviewed claimed that Islam was a religion of peace. Maher claimed that they call Islam a religion of peace to outsiders, but when they hang out with other Muslims, they favor terrorism.
I am willing to take these Muslims at their word. Old testament scriptures often demand extreme punishment for trivial offences yet most modern Christians do not advocate these harsh penalties.
Among those who identify as Christians, there is a great diversity of belief. Some see a loving, forgiving God; others see a vindictive punishing God. Why shouldn’t we accept that Muslims have a similar diversity of beliefs?
Despite my criticism, on the whole I enjoyed the movie. I’m glad we went.
You go Kraig!
Deanna
This is something I wanted to get include in the money accumulation post. It is something I did in Microsoft Excel. I do and think of this stuff in dollars, as always or very often, it is applicable to any dollars, francs, euros, pesos, pounds, rubles, yen, yuan, wan, or any currency I left out, and peanut shells too, if they are accepted and spent anywhere.
This if you deposit $1 the first day/time, each next time you make a deposit, deposit an additional dollar. Keep increasing it the next time until you can no longer afford to increase it, at that time, go back to $1. Any ammount you choose to reset to. You may decide, for whatever reason, to reset to a larger number. maybe you have your own numerical system for this. Here's the spreadsheet. done for 365 days/times. It's a long list, you may want to cut and paste it to a word processor, text editor, or spreadsheet program of your choice. Sorry, I don't have the excel formula handy at the moment.But if you ask me, I'll have it, or some may be able to figure it out for themselves.
I can only post 4096 character. That's a silly rule.
That's ridiculous! I can't post the spreadsheet because its over 4096 characters. Who do I complain to about this stupid rule?
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