Notices by Rusty Ring (rustyring@universeodon.com)

@georgetakei

Somebody's been surveilling me.

@sara Part of the ongoing movement to devalue humans across the board, sponsored by those few humans who run everything.

@georgetakei Except there's no way Paul belongs in that company. Not even Charlie Weaver.

@georgetakei Guy gets the difference between atheist and nontheist wrong. They're not synonyms.

An atheist (despite the etymology of the word) has no religion: he or she rejects the notion of occult design in the universe. Nature is a system of random occurrences, having no greater implications.

A nontheist just doesn't believe in the existence of gods. He or she may be religious (Buddhists), but rejects the notion of a mind somewhere running things, or cause and effect surviving a living actor.

As a Zenner I run into this all the time with other Zenners who insist they're "atheists". Zen is a religion. Atheist Zen is no more doable than atheist Christianity. What we are is nontheists. We live in a universe of esoteric, unifying truths, but no gods.

(Ideally. Some of us have gods too, but that's another rant.)

Anyway, couldn't comment on the article so I said it here. Thanks for the think; it was otherwise interesting.