My fellow Resistentialist Slack2Slack pointed me to Truthdig, where I found An Atheist Manifesto by Sam Harris. Harris is the author of The End of Faith, which should be required reading for anyone who is still remotely persuaded by the god-noises people often make. As Truthdig points out: “For Sam Harris it’s simple: Atheism is [...]
Now, I know that I’ve had most of a bottle of wine. And very little food to accompany it. So it’s possible that I may be feeling more aggrieved than I normally would. But the server on which this site, and two other sites I manage, is hosted has been down for around 8 hours [...]
If I said something like”That was fun”, then I’d be lying. Any of you who have had to mark student essays or exams don’t need to hear this, but people who have never been exposed to these tasks are often strangely naive about the intellectual calibre of the typical student – and the typical human being, for that matter.
Earlier this week I remarked to a colleague that it feels like we’ve just finished marking exam scripts. This is not true at all, of course, given that we finished marking sometime in early November. But there was so much of it, and so much utter crap to read, that the memory lingers long. And here I sit, knowing that I’ll have to wade into the worst of it all sometime today.
is a friend indeed? This is one of those phrases that Resistentialists seldom use, except after a few brandies when we start to ponder questions such as: “Why do people use phrases like this one?”, and “What the hell do phrases like this actually mean, anyway?”