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     "All men seek to be enlightened.  Religion is but the most ancient
      and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of
      God's universe.  Scientists seek the lawfulness of events.  It is
      the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

      Much that was called Religion has carried an unconscious attitude
      of hostility toward life.  True Religion must teach that life is
      filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without
      action is empty.  All men must see that the teaching of Religion
      by rules and rote is largely a hoax.  The proper teaching is
      recognized with ease.  You can know it without fail because it
      awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something
      you've always known."

      - C.E.T Liturgical Manual and Commentaries on the O. C. Bible


These are reflections on various things indicated by the titles.


  1. The Bird
  2. Global Warming
  3. Bird Flu
  4. Now
  5. Writings of The Snotty Chef
  6. What to Eat?
  7. Classical Geometry & Physics Redux
  8. Origins of The Species of Time
  9. Letter From Aunt Agatha
  10. Intercepted Terror Communication
  11. A Sumerian Tale
  12. Conservative v. Liberal
  13. Spirituality v. Religiosity
  14. Dr. Knowitall on Life
  15. On The Teaching Of Physics
  16. Essay on Common Sense in Child Rearing
  17. Reflections of a Nouveau Mountaineer
  18. What's funny and why?
  19. Genius
  20. Bovine Polarization
  21. Erlkoenig und Freunde
  22. First Times
  23. A Papal Anagnorisis
  24. Music Pages with a number of essays

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