It's difficult to write about the contents of this clip. On the surface its a scene from a J.C.V.D. film, dubbed in Italian, that features a disco dance leading into a fight scene. But I can't help feel that there's some deeper cosmic mystery at play. Does anyone know what movie this is?
My boy Jeremy (known elsewhere as Dr. Cheese Bear Whack) has decided to inform me that he's been blogging on the sly for awhile about his exploits in the world of food. Info can be found here. Apparently he even makes his own yogurt!
"On the West Coast, partial eclipse will begin about 5:45 pm, just as the moon is rising. The full eclipse will begin at about 7:00 pm and last nearly an hour. Partial eclipse will end again a few minutes after nine o'clock.
The next full eclipse won't happen until late December, 2010."
Your mother was an atheist. She refused to accept any consolation from the hope of an afterlife. How much did that contribute to her dread? Well, I'm an atheist too; if anything, more militant than my mother. I think it would have been grotesque of my mother to have become a person of faith purely in the interest of consoling herself. Surely, that would have been the most terrible therapeutic use of faith, and a disgrace in terms of faith. You shouldn't start to believe because it suits you. But it does raise the question: Without the consolation of religion, does the prospect of dying lead to dread? Well, it sure doesn't help. I don't know. There are certainly religious traditions that don't believe in an afterlife. So I don't think we can just take the Christian or the Islamic model and say those visions of a personal afterlife are what religious faith is. If you look at Buddhism, if you look at Judaism, neither has an afterlife in that sense. So I'm not sure it's faith vs. atheism.
