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This Blog is Not for You (Unless it is for You).

September 19th, 2009 · by John · 38 Comments

In spite of my various attempts to clarify my motives, people continue to ask why I have chosen to be so noisy and public as I exited the LDS Church. Most of these questions (and the occasional accusation that I’m insincere, or an attention whore) come from people who seem to be deeply connected to [...]

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Tags: Doubt · Getting over Religion · Mormonism · Personal

Music Monday: Climb That Mountain High

March 2nd, 2009 · by xJane · No Comments

I’ve been listening to this recently and it’s kept me going as law school ties me up in its basement, feeding me only bread and water, and negotiating a ransom exchange with my family husband. I keep getting the feeling that the majority of my family would like me to settle down and start having [...]

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Tags: Art · Career · Depression · Doubt · Education · Feminism · Getting over Religion · Law · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Personal · Social Hacking · Society · Women

Sparks: Daylight Atheism

January 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · No Comments

I’m catching up on local news (read: blogs) while my cousin is in town (trying not to be too antisocial by spending all my free time blogging) and enjoyed particularly this most recent post at Daylight Atheism: No Holy Ground, a rational look at the conflict in the so-called “Holy Land” and how it is [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Dialog · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Reason · Religion · Skeptic · Society

“Are you really an atheist?”

December 29th, 2008 · by xJane · 9 Comments

said the friend sitting next to me at Christmas Eve dinner, with a vague look of disgust on her face, like I’d just admitted to enjoying self-flagellation. I was in the company of a number of people who had escaped Western religion (all some form of Christianity) and landed firmly in Eastern religion (all some [...]

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Sparks! (I’m Back)

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Blogging · Doubt · Getting over Religion · Humor · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Religion · Ritual · Sexuality · Society · Spiritual Progressives · Technology

My Own Private Recession.

December 2nd, 2008 · by John · 26 Comments

Vulnerability., originally uploaded by mind on fire. Professionals who treated patients with mental illness were once called alienists. Although the word itself has become obsolete, as a society mental and emotional disorders are still treated as something strange, alien, other. We are healthy and normal, but they are sick and crazy. A few months ago, [...]

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Tags: Depression · Doubt · Personal · Photos

Sparks: I Couldn’t Keep Them to Myself

November 17th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

Obama’s first YouTube-Side Chat. I’d love to get the audio in podcast, since I have more time to listen than to watch. I’m so glad that he’s doing this (I’ve been saying for some time that the Fireside Chats need to be brought back, to increase trust and transparency; in this case, also to increase [...]

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In the Dark about AFTERdark

October 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 16 Comments

So, we’ve got these posters up all over campus for an “event” tonight called “AFTERdark” and it’s pissing me off because I think this is a microcosm of the general bait-and-switch of religion. The campus event of the year AFTERdark the compelling drama of Joe White “a top 10 influencer of the century” -New Man [...]

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On Palin: Sexism from Her Own Party

October 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Cannot. Wait. For. The. Debate. via.

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Tags: Classic · Current Events · Dialog · Doubt · Feminism · Gender · Video

Spark: Update from the Gay Marriage Files

September 17th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments

California, post Supreme Court decision (that discrimination based on gender is discrimination), now uses marriage licenses that ask for the names of “Party A” and “Party B” to the marriage. As someone who still doesn’t feel like the word “wife” applies to her, I think this is pretty awesome. It is, however, causing waves. I [...]

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