Friday, December 5, 2008

PZ Meyers, Digital Cuttlefish, and countless others........

I just wanted to give credit to a few of the people who were my biggest inspiration for creating a blog of my own. First off, whom I have only been an avid reader of for maybe a few months now (although I've heard of pharyngula before that, and had read off and on for much longer) is PZ Meyers and his Pharyngula blog, which I usually really enjoy reading and commenting on. Also, The Digital Cuttlefish is another blog which I really enjoy reading. Well, these are just a couple of blogs that come to mind from recent interest that have inspired me to write my own blog.

I consider myself a free thinking individual. I would probably be viewed by many as a "Godless Liberal" by many people in my country, and I love a good debate, but above all I believe in equality of all people reguardless of their differences. And although I may sound condecending at times toward some religious belief, I don't dislike anyone personally simply because of their beliefs.....That being said, I have a strong dislike for many religious doctrines because I feel that they not only encourage the acceptance of ideas that have no logical grounding or proof, but they breed disunity between anyone who does not live (or does not even wish to live) by their dogmaticism. I think that religion plays a huge roll in all of the distrust and dislike between many different cultures in this world so much to the point that I feel that religion has even kindled many of the wars throughout the history of mankind.

Anyways, religion and theology will not be the only topic discussed here, but I did want to give fair warning so that no felings get hurt. As for this blog...any topic is fair game. WHatever I find interesting I will post about and I welcome all opinions and thoughts, whether they be in agreement or disagreement, friendly or not. I like to discuss, and am not out to make any ememies, so feel free to say whatever you want....I am not into censorship, and would not delete a comment unless there was outright trolling involved. I look forward to interesting discussions, and welcome any emails with whatever anyone may feel the need to say. And any suggestions of topics or other ways to improve things here are welcome as well......

The Beginning!

Well, this is the first post in my blog. I have lots of things that I would love to talk about, but I need to get my thoughts straight first. I am a college student, and I have finals starting in three days, so I may not have much to say until after that.
This blog is still under construction, but I plan to have it up and running soon.......