How much longer must we tolerate mass culture? Vox 2008-04-09T23:53:13Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d41426798b3c7f/tags/religion/ When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. -Joe Strummer The Devil's advocate tag:vox.com,2008-04-09:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00f48ced05e50002 2008-04-09T23:53:13Z 2008-04-09T23:53:13Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I use the phrase sloppily, as a kind of joke. I'll say things like 'I'm working for the devil", and mention the "dark overlords" at places i've worked. But I don't seriously believe that Satan worshippers run the world. That would be really crazy....

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]]> A moment for intolerance tag:vox.com,2007-10-27:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00e398b727e90004 2007-10-27T05:29:47Z 2007-11-01T01:56:18Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Speaking of making things right: I hope the parents of Matthew Snyder are successful, and sue the clothing off of Westboro Baptist Church. I realize that this is an extremely bad idea for free speech. I realize that, in the long run, I don't wan...

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]]> Believe it or not tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00e398b6d5dd0005 2007-10-26T04:00:27Z 2007-10-26T04:00:27Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You know that thing about the ninth configuration that creationists like to cite? The thing about how amino acids couldn't form on their own, and that the chances of it occurring randomly were incredibly unlikely? Well, Homer Jacobson has retract...

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]]> A thought about disaster tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00e398b6c0370002 2007-10-26T03:56:43Z 2007-10-26T04:09:25Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Oh, and speaking of "Home"; anybody else notice that the fires up by Malibu were at least half contained, if not completely by yesterday, while the fires on the southern end of San Diego aren't contained at all? It could be because Malibu is White...

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]]> Now that you're angry... tag:vox.com,2007-10-13:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00e398b247780001 2007-10-13T13:16:27Z 2007-10-13T13:16:27Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I suppose I've been a bit of a world traveller. I truly have seen many places that people who live next door to me have not. The opposite is true, as well. My neighbors have seen places I'll never see. It's part of the beauty that is the human ex...

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]]> So, I guess I'll never learn tag:vox.com,2007-08-19:asset-6a00d41426798b3c7f00e3989f5ee70005 2007-08-19T20:47:50Z 2007-08-21T03:34:18Z Maxvan http://maxvan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I'm friends with a fair number of people. Some are very conservative, some are very liberal. Some are quite religious in one direction, others are quite religious in another, and some aren't religious at all. So, I feel that asking for some degre...

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