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Art A collection of links of some of the art that's had an influence on my little grey cells.
 
Computer Art   An archive of some computer artwork I've created over the past few years.
 
Manuscript A collection of various things I've written on traveling, computer technology, political science and a few other things.
 
Paint & Sketch Just a couple of paintings, drawings and sketches I've done over the years and took the time to scan into digital form.
 
Photo Photos of family, friends, places of travel, home and whatnot.
 
Reading A little list of what I'm currently reading, what I have read and what I'm planning on reading.
 
Video Another archive, this one however is a video archive I've shot using my digital camcorder.


 
     
 
It is properly said that the Devil can "quote Scripture to his purpose." The Bible is full of so many stories of contradictory moral purpose that every generation can find scriptural justification for nearly any action it proposes - from incest, slavery, and mass murder to the most refined love, courage, and self-sacrifice. And this moral multiple personality disorder is hardly restricted to Judaism and Christianity. You can find it deep within Islam, the Hindu tradition, indeed nearly all the world's religions. Perhaps then it is ... people who are morally ambiguous.

Scripture is said to be divinely inspired - a phrase with many meanings. But what if it's simply made up by fallible humans? Miracles are attested, but what if they're instead some mix of charlatanry, unfamiliar states of consciousness, misapprehensions of natural phenomena, and mental illness? The fact that so little of the finds of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on its divine inspiration.

But of course I might be wrong.

-Carl Sagan

 
     
 

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