So far just a reposting of some old journal entries...
       
           Thursday, September 1st, 2011
          A brief mention of my religious belief (I only have one). Actually it's
          theory but, presently, it's so highly speculative that it borders on
          belief.  In the jumble of multiverse theories the notion of infinity
          seems to be a constant.  Infinite universes cycling over infinite time,
          whether sequentially, in parallel or multidimensionally in which anything
          that is not strictly forbidden will not only happen, it will happen an
          infinite number of times.  And one thing I know with certainty that is
          not forbidden is that a sentient, self-aware organism that calls itself
          Jim is writing these lines and I am that organism...
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           Friday, August 15th, 2011
          I'll be trying to accomplish two things with this post. First, to get in
          writing something I have been churning and refining in my mind for quite
          some time and, secondly, to see if I can describe in words what would
          normally be illustrated with images.  Sort of a little mental exercise on
          my part.
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           Thursday, August 8th, 2011
          After reading the post Plants as Persons: A Philosophical Botany I
          decided, as an experiment, to construct an ethical food pyramid.  It
          descends from the most ethical to the least ethical ways to fill your
          pie-hole.  Once you throw out sentience as a qualifier you get some
          interesting results:
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           Sunday, June 19th, 2011
          The problem I gave myself was to design a religion. No small task. It had
          to be completely reconciled with science, both existing and future, yet
          not be in and of itself scientific.  It had to incorporate symbolism and
          ceremony yet not be an anachronism.  Dogma or rigidity were best avoided. 
          Most of all it had to be something I wouldn't feel silly in professing or
          practicing, if I was given to such things.  Here is a sparse, incomplete
          framework I devised:
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