Comments on: What I Want For Christmas

By: Ebonmuse

Ebonmuse — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:32:51 +0000

Congratulations, Jen and family!

By: Alex Weaver

Alex Weaver — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:29:08 +0000

Just have to announce that my daughter was born at 5:15 am Christmas morning. The perfect time for two atheists to bring a child into the world.

I can't think of the right one-liner about wrapping paper, so I'll just say "happy human larva acquisition" :3

By: SuperHappyJen

SuperHappyJen — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:45:38 +0000

Just have to announce that my daughter was born at 5:15 am Christmas morning. The perfect time for two atheists to bring a child into the world.

By: TommyP

TommyP — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:45:56 +0000

Rock on, Ebonmuse! This is why we love your guts, mister. It's nifty to see your own ideas spoken by another, and spoken better. It's helped me quite a bit to refine my own ideas. My thanks also to the other people who post replies and such, some of the things that are said are amazingly useful.

By: Juan Felipe

Juan Felipe — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:23:11 +0000

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

By: the chaplain

the chaplain — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:53:03 +0000

We can look at this as a wish list or as a set of goals. Same goes for some of the fine additions that other commenters have made. We may not achieve all of these goals, but it's good to know what our targets are.

By: Alex Weaver

Alex Weaver — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:33:59 +0000

And in other news, happy electrified conifer day everyone. :)

By: bbk

bbk — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:30:41 +0000

I'm okay with churches being turned into bars. They look pretty when I'm drunk.

By: MissCherryPi

MissCherryPi — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:14:11 +0000

They didn't have that at the mall. So I got you a sweater.

By: BlackSun

BlackSun — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:55:24 +0000

Ebonmuse, in other words, "Peace on Earth, good will to men." Isn't that supposed to be the Christian message? Too bad they don't really live it.

By: mikespeir

mikespeir — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:24:56 +0000

...what doesn't change doesn't live.

I guess that's, um, profounder. I can't think of anything better.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:00:17 +0000

Meh, seemed appropriate, if somewhat tame. If it's profound you're after, something slightly better would be to remark that the forces of rational and scientific inquiry have, since Sidney devised that particular metaphor about impossible goals, progressed to the point that it is no longer a laughable impossibility - today, we actually could launch a projectile into the sun itself, should we so wish, and it's been by the work of just such people who challenged the impossible. The forces of religion can lay claim to no similar achievement stemming from any of their own principles or methods of thought (though it must be said that they've caused a few by inspiring scientists to try and better understand creation in order to show respect to its supposed creator); indeed, religions are best known for boasting not about how much they've learned or developed but how little they've changed over the centuries. And if you want really profound, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, what doesn't change doesn't live.