One very positive development, following the publication of Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, is that commentators on the issue are occasionally taking pains to identify themselves what one might call “moderate athiests”. See, for example, this review by David Niose of Humanist magazine.
But I, I dissolve outwards, wander the sky. And wait for you to come to my ever-hungry land. – Extract from “February Moon: Cape Town”, in This Carting Life (Kwela, 2005) by Rustum Kozain. Winner of the 2006 Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry.
A friend remarked over dinner that, if we were in London (his home town), power outages such as those experienced in Cape Town of late would result in marches and the like. This may be true, and I can’t help wondering if my feeling that there would simply be no point in marching is a) [...]
For those who want some context with regard to this post: Exhibit A “I WAS UNABLE TO ACCESS ANY OF MY E-MAILS. BUT MY MARK RECORDS ARE INCORRECT BECAUSE I HAV HANDED IN MY BIG ESSAY 2.THE TUTOR(xxxxx xxxxx) SAID THAT SHE HAS HANDED ALL RESULTS IN BUT THEY DO NOT REFLECT ON THE BOARD. [...]
Readers, you are forewarned that posts appearing in this category are hereby defined as exempt from the standards I usually apply to anything for public consumption. I won’t feel the need (well, I’ll try to resist the need) to justify myself, and I won’t necessarily be trying to make any point that could hold up [...]