Teardrop Souffle

Williams' Lament: "Natural selection maximizes shortsighted selfishness no matter how much pain or loss it produces and, from a human point of view, is grossly immoral."
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put on this earth to rise above." - Katherine Hepburn's character in The African Queen

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Apparently I'm Dragging My Feet

Ah, the world can be so overwhelming. I'm really looking forward to writing all sorts of ideas and insights from the Towards a New Enlightenment conference. But for some mysterious reason I haven't yet. Actually, that reason is not so mysterious at all: there's so much to say, I'm not quite sure where to even start.

Also, sometimes I think that instead of spending so much time on the internet, I should try to organize my thoughts into a more publishable format. Am I accomplishing anything with this on-line journal? Is this a big waste of time? Perhaps my point of view could actually have an impact if I fleshed my positions out into chapters, rather than mere posts. Chapters would probably be more difficult, even more (naively) ambitious, but if one wants to have any influence in life....

So many questions. Til I answer them some, here is reporting on the actual conference events from one of Center for Inquiry's own...

2 Comments:

At 1:51 PM, Blogger CE Mason said...

Well, it's having an effect on me. I check the site now and again.
Also, you should still write a book.

 
At 10:48 PM, Blogger Lizzie said...

Aww, thanks Chris. That's really nice to hear.

 

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