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“I didn’t vote for no women’s liberation”

Published on August 21, 2010 in Philosophy and Rants. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I was at work a couple of days ago and I had a fellow employee ask me for some help lifting a heavy object. As always I was glad to help. When I started to lift the thing I noticed that I could easily do it on my own, so I did. After setting the thing down where she wanted, she said to me:

“Thank you so much. I’m glad we have a strong man like you to take care of these things. You know the Bible says that us women need men, and I didn’t vote for all the women’s liberation stuff any how.”

I was honestly kind of shocked, although I shouldn’t have been. This lady was a Christian, and I am well aware of the kind of submission/weakness mindset that Christianity inculcates in it’s female followers. But to hear such a self-defeating phrase come out of this poor woman’s mouth just set me aback. I told her, “you’re welcome,” and went on my way. I knew her programming would not let her accept what I really wanted to tell her. I wanted to tell her how foolish what she said was. I wanted to tell her that there are more kinds of strength than simple brute force. I wanted to tell her that there were half a dozen men in this place that would have had a hard time lifting this thing alone, and at least two other women that could have lifted it just as easily as I had. I most importantly I would have wanted to tell her that she was every bit my equal, whether she voted for it or not.

Final Dominion!

Published on August 30, 2009 in Fiction, Philosophy and Science. 0 Comments

Ok, I’ve finally gotten down to some serious work on the novel I’ve been planning to write for some time, entitled: Final Dominion. I’ve almost got the story outline hammered out, and now I’m working on the character details.

Final Dominion is going to be an experiment of sorts, a glimpse into the most primal parts of our nature. In the novel, a young scientist, Isabel Hawthorn, is brutally raped by a colleague. As a result, her outlook on life is shattered. She changes from a a shy and innocent young woman, into a broken, but almost insanely driven individual, who is determined to fix what she now knows is the main problem with human society – the control and aggression of the male of the species.

As a geneticist, Isabel puts her unique skills to use, and develops a grand plan, which she calls: Neutralization Theory.  With the help of her friends, Elyse Walker and April Brooks, she begins her master plan to “save the human race from certain extinction.”

What kind of world would emerge as a result of the power and the fate of all human society, world wide, being stripped away from the male, and placed solely in the hands of the female. Would the world be any better? Would women treat their now lesser male counterparts with compassion and equality? Or would we find that our problems are a little more universal than we think?

Final Dominion, part 1: Inheriting the Earth

Coming soon to SpiritfX.com!

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Resurection Sunday!

Published on July 5, 2009 in Philosophy, Religion and Science. 0 Comments

Resurection

It’s been a long time since I posted on this blog, or any blog for that matter. I’m sure many of you thought that SpiritfX was dead;  decomposing in some dark crypt of an internet server, and never to be heard from again. Well my friends, today is Sunday, but not just any Sunday. For SpiritfX.com, today is Resurrection Sunday!

In the chaos and soul searching that immediately ensued after my realization that Christianity and the Bible was almost certainly fiction, I swung from the extreme position that I was living in (believing in gods, devils, angles, demons, talking snakes and donkeys, undead messiahs, etc.), to the other extreme position of believing in absolutely nothing. The one thing that the two positions have in common is that they are both dogmatic.

I have recently come to a realization of the amazing truth (perhaps the only truth that anyone can honestly ever really know) that I don’t as a matter of fact know how or why I or anyone else is here, in existence. I kind of lean towards the concept of emergence, as in the theory of abiogenesis, but to be perfectly honest; I don’t know. I wasn’t around when the first protocells allegedly emerged in the earth’s primitive oceans, and I’m pretty sure no one else was either. So, for me to without doubt, attest that this is a certain fact, would require a great deal of faith. However, it would require an infinitely greater deal of faith to attest, without doubt, that an all-powerful god did it, who also created the seemingly endless expanse of the cosmos, with his son Jesus Christ, and the holy Ghost. There is just far more stuff to believe without the aid of evidence in the latter scenario.

So, with that said, I am raising SpiritfX.com from the dead, for the express purpose of trying to figure out just what the real world is all about. I will be writing regularly on the subjects of religion, belief, science and reality. I think this time I am finally getting off on the right foot though. A wise man once said: The path to knowledge begins with the simple phrase, “I do not know.” Well, I do not know, but I intend to walk this path until I do, or until I return to dust of the earth. Subscribe to this blog, and join me!