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We Now Conclude Our Broadcast Day
Recalling the Imperfect Radio and TV Reception of the Past
Also from today's New York Times:
Many years ago, when I was an innocent lamb making my first appearance on a right-wing radio talk show, the host asked, “If you don’t believe in God, what’s to stop you from committing murder?” I blurted out, “It’s never actually occurred to me to murder anyone.”
Even though I believe in God, it's long irked me that some people think atheists aren't moral people. If anything, a person not believing in God (and therefore possible eternal damnation in Hell) and still doing the right thing means she's doing the right thing for the right reason, not because of some fear of punishment:
read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/books/review/living-the-secular-life-by-phil-zuckerman.html
Okay, so I am
addicted to Google Play Books and discovered a book by Havelock Ellis that has
some rather interesting insights on sex.
I don’t know to how to quote what I
found intriguing without sounding rather crude (the book is surprisingly
graphic for the late 19th century). In less crude terms, I’ll say what I think
Ellis is saying and that is this: sex may seem highly biological and messy (he
uses “evacuation” instead of the much more common modern term that also starts
with “e”) but it has to be more if it comes with such a high intensity of
emotion.
I can't believe how
many times I've been experiencing something in my own life and then pick up a
book that I have just started reading
and it's like the passage was meant for me to see:
The relation of love
to pain is one of the most difficult problems...why is it that love inflicts,
and even seeks to inflict, pain? Why is it that love suffers pain and even
seeks to suffer it?
Picking up the book
to read more of the "Love and Pain" chapter from one of this books I
find myself more fascinated with the non-personal related aspects of it all and
get sucked into the leaning and human interest parts. Reading and learning has
so often been able to pull me out of myself and realize how universal
alienation can be.
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