Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"One recalls the question that was asked by Chinese when the first Christian missionaries made their appearance. If god has revealed himself, how is it that he has allowed so many centuries to elapse before informing the Chinese?"
"If I can definitively prove that the usefulness of religion is in the past, and that its foundational books are transparent fables, and that it is a man-made imposition, and that it has been an enemy of science and inquiry, and that it has subsisted largely on lies and fears, and been the accomplice of ignorance and guilt as well as slavery, genocide, racism, and tyranny, I can most certainly claim that religion is now fully aware of these criticisms. It is also fully aware of the ever-mounting evidence, concerning the origins of the cosmos and the origin of species, which consign it to marginality if not to irrelevance."
Monday, September 7, 2009
Fragments from the westering experience, probably 150 to 175 years old. The blogger found a ceramic pottery chip and what is likely a broken hinge on a remote stretch of the California Trail, west of the Raft River where that trail and the Oregon Trail split. The California Trail was an emigrants' wagon road in the mid-1800s and an overland route to and from the California gold fields for '49ers.
Friday, September 4, 2009
The blogger drives 14 miles out of town on a little-used, roughly paved road and continues for two more miles on this even less-used gravel road:
The blogger parks outside this locked gate:
The blogger gathers his gear, climbs over the locked gate and walks legally another one and a half miles on the still less-used gravel road behind the gate:
The remote trekking is for the purpose of swimming in this lake, which is in a national wildlife refuge:
Handicapped Parking — Permit Required
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Below is the Craters of the Moon National Monument series.
An Oregon woman driving a minivan had this personalized license plate. The blogger asked the ranger if he had seen the plate. The ranger replied he hadn't. The blogger told the ranger the plate read TETONS. The ranger said, "Maybe that's her favorite place." The blogger asked, "On Earth or her body?" The ranger was embarrassed.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Below is the nuke series.
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