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Archive for December, 2006

I Have A Secret

Posted: Sunday, December 31st, 2006 @ 4:46 pm in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

I’ve been holding onto it for many many months now. Should I tell it to you on the last day of 2006? Or the first day of 2007?
Hmmm…

Very Cool Videos

Posted: Friday, December 29th, 2006 @ 12:37 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I loved Olga’s reaction to the Beyond Belief videos that I posted a link to in a recent post.
I WANT MORE is all I can say. I learned some new names at the conference and want to know more about these people and their ideas. The next conference will take place November 1-3, 2007.
For those [...]

I’ve Been Away…

Posted: Thursday, December 28th, 2006 @ 3:55 pm in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Away from my home, away from the internet most of the time, away from my little dog (sob).
We’re in Kansas City visiting my parents and siblings! We’re having so much fun! Yesterday we went away to some farm areas where my parents have some gorgeous hilly property away from civilization. We took turns riding [...]

Empathy Neurons?

Posted: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 @ 1:16 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science | 6 Comments »

They’re sometimes called Mirror Neurons, or Monkey-See-Monkey-Do Neurons. According to a neuroscientist I am watching at a science convention right now (watching the video, anyway), there is a subset of neurons that fire when, for example, we get poked with a needle. What we now know is that these same neurons will also [...]

Developing Empathy in Children for a Moral and Ethical Foundation

Posted: Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 @ 5:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Ethics, Morals, Parenting | 4 Comments »

My article is up on the Humanist Network News! Click here to read it.
In fact, the article may relate in some way to a comment/question that Angel posted last week. Angel: If you are still here, the article I linked to may interest you. I do plan to address your specific [...]

Blake’s Harry Potter Birthday Party

Posted: Sunday, December 10th, 2006 @ 5:29 pm in Children, Parenting, Social | 7 Comments »

The fun thing about having a party for a nine-year-old is that the children are old enough for us to do away with the balloons and instead go for more authentic Harry Potter-type decor. Yet they are young enough to delve into their imaginations and and put themselves into the story.
We had a lot [...]

Atheist Delusion

Posted: Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 @ 7:25 pm in Atheist, Belief, Fundamentalism, Religion, Science | 8 Comments »

Two points of business.
Number one is to answer a question from MomSquared: I am curious whether the name Trinity is religious in origin or not?
The origin of Trinity’s name happens to be the movie, The Matrix. That’s it. We were Mormons when we chose that name and Mormons reject the concept of the [...]

Someone Taught My Kid About God

Posted: Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 @ 6:29 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Family, Parenting, Religion | 9 Comments »

Actually, that was orginally me.
This post is to answer a question from Jennifer:
I know this question was already raised, but I don’t think answered, who teaches your daughter about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? (I’m agnostic, just wondering).
I know I have forgotten to answer a lot of questions. If I passed you [...]