tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post8386884996029432847..comments2024-03-18T20:41:39.140-07:00Comments on C. E. Chaffin's Blog: MIcrosqueeze and My Day as an AtheistC. E. Chaffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-3711127388824833592007-11-28T16:41:00.000-08:002007-11-28T16:41:00.000-08:00Thanks, Masale, I've boxed it up and am ready to r...Thanks, Masale, I've boxed it up and am ready to return it. The penalty is 15%, the price of wisdom, apparently. Good to see you, Sam, sorry I've been avoiding blog cruising. Trying to write seriously. <BR/><BR/>Laurel, I agree with you to an extent: "You just wake up and.."<BR/><BR/>But what if you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Are there any consequences but a last laugh?<BR/><BR/>Pat, there's no shortage of spiritual alternatives up here. Today a friend told me that his teacher, in a previous life, had an opportunity to kill a bunch of Puritans but passed--and now she regrets it!<BR/><BR/>I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh while explaining their faith, and my friend didn't laugh once today. But it wasn't faith so much as his personal myth. <BR/><BR/>Reincarnation. Of all the silly slug-inhabiting philosophies I ever became a monkey over!C. E. Chaffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-31164569418184083412007-11-28T15:42:00.000-08:002007-11-28T15:42:00.000-08:00A lot of computer manufacturers are giving buyers ...A lot of computer manufacturers are giving buyers the option of either having Vista or Win XP (the older OS from Microsoft), in light of the terrible reviews that Vista has gotten. I know Dell is giving this option for all new purchases. You should check with Acer/Circuit City if they'll give you a similar laptop, only with Win XP.<BR/><BR/>Also, there is an open-source (and free) alternative to Windows Word, and Microsoft Office in general, called Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/). It's very stable, widely used and compatible with Word. You should be able to open all your old Word documents and edit them without a hitch. <BR/><BR/>Regards..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-48304750875520965682007-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:002007-11-28T08:18:00.000-08:00What an interesting experiment, CE.What an interesting experiment, CE.sam of the ten thousand thingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378206265831223396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-31821842791661084852007-11-26T23:18:00.000-08:002007-11-26T23:18:00.000-08:00Or Craig, you could become a Pagan, Wiccan like ma...Or Craig, you could become a Pagan, Wiccan like many northcoasters. I was raised high church Episcopalian but came to realize it was mostly the candles and music I loved...nature is what I believe in, keeps me going now.<BR/><BR/>PatPathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16494762359928682626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-89498842905075384782007-11-26T22:22:00.000-08:002007-11-26T22:22:00.000-08:00I think man created god for the same reason that g...I think man created god for the same reason that god created man:<BR/><BR/>So he wouldn't feel so lonely.<BR/><BR/>The only time in my whole solitary life during which I have grown to genuinely love my solitude, my aloneness, I never felt lonely until that weekend in October while my father was dying.<BR/><BR/>The waiting room windows faced a century old church with a circular blue stained glass window. I felt like the god I didn't believe in was watching me. <BR/><BR/>I took my mother to that church for vespers because I knew she would find comfort there since she is a lifelong, unwavering, except for a few years when the parish we were attending was headed by the unkindest priest on the face of this earth, Catholic. It was a cavernous old church. I was hoping to walk in there and feel the way I had felt as a child. I wanted to feel god's presence. But I felt nothing. <BR/><BR/>It's the only time since I lost my faith when I was nineteen that I felt, powerfully, the absence of god.<BR/><BR/>I'm okay being a non-believer. I feel a spiritual connection with the natural world that is as powerful and moving for me as my literal belief in god was when I was a child.<BR/><BR/>But I miss believing in god sometimes. And Santa Claus. <BR/><BR/>The only reason you should become an atheist, CE, is if you really don't believe in god. Actually, you don't become an atheist; you just wake up one day, and you are.LKDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02171027823523187126noreply@blogger.com