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Eli commented on moJoe's group 'Chariots of Iron'

We took a break for the holidays, recorded the first episode if 2012 yesterday. Should be out soon. the

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Atheist Morality

A place for atheists to discuss morality issues. What shapes your morality? What new perspectives have you found since abandoning faith (if you ever had any)? Is there any merit to religious moral authority?

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Atheist Cinema

A place to talk about your favorite movies, genres, actors and directors. Please try to keep one discussion per genre, actor or director.

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TNT666 commented on Eli's group 'Atheist Cinema'

The amazing story of a nomadic people of Persia. In three viewings.From 1925, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, the amazing telling of the bi-annual migration of 50,000 Persians and their flocks of nearly a million, who cross 2 mountains…

Dec 20, 2011

TNT666 commented on Eli's group 'Atheist Cinema'

Watching this documentary... my thoughts were entirely reminiscent of PZ Myers'... Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/197812. "Still, a lot of people think Kurzweil is completely bonkers and/or full of a certain messy byproduct of…

Dec 12, 2011

TNT666 commented on Eli's group 'Atheist Cinema'

Just watched a very poor quality documentary on a relatively well known figure in these circles... Ray Kurzweil... Transcendent Man (2009). A piece of gratuitous self-promotion, passing itself off as balanced, while limiting 'criticism' to…

Dec 12, 2011

Geraldo Cienmarcos commented on Eli's group 'Atheist Morality'

Distrust Feeds Anti-Atheist Prejudice - Miller-McCuneResearch finds atheists are widely perceived as untrustworthy, which may be a factor in why they're disliked more than other…

Nov 16, 2011

Dallas Gaytheist commented on Eli's group 'Atheist Morality'

Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Peter SingerUtilitarian philosopher Peter Singer lives up to his beliefs, giving away 25-30 percent of his income to alleviate absolute poverty, and defending animal rights--or as he puts it, "extending…

Oct 25, 2011

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My URL: http://chariotsofiron.com

About Me: First the biological:
Eukaryote, Metazoa, Bilateria, Deuterostomia, Chordata, Craniata, Vertebrata, Gnathostomata, Sarcopterygii, Stegocephalian, Amniota, Synapsida, Therapsida, Mammalia, Eutheria, Primate, Catarrhini, Hominidae, Homo, Homo Sapiens

Now the socio/psychological...
I am a HUGE nerd. I own 1000 movies (Mostly Sci/fi, Fantasy and Kung-fu flicks), almost 500 board games, 400 Role-playing game books, 200 Action figures (mint in package even!). I love science and politics...

A general skeptic who has looked into about every religion available, I'm a rather "hardcore" atheist because of this. I see religion as an absurd affliction, a dire cultural addiction that society should work to recover from.

While I may be light on moderate religious types I am with "The Four Horsemen" on the view that it is the moderates that make the room for the extremists.

I enjoy debate with the "faithful" and work to hone my arguments through an increase in scientific and historic knowledge. I also enjoy using the bible to condemn the bible.

If you're new to the Nexus, or been under a rock, I'm one of the Charioteers in the Chariots of Iron podcast, we do a weekly show where we tear apart scripture, talk science and share news of interest to atheists.

Favorite Atheist Quotes:

"You may not realize it guys, but atheism is a chick-magnet."
-Dan Dennet

"We have a name for people who mutter to themselves and hear voices from entities they can't see: Schizophrenics."
-Me

"There's a problem when the president is taking advice from his "father" and he's not talking about the one who WAS THE president."
-Me

Profession: Software QA Engineer

Age Group: 31-40

City and State (For Member Searching): Portland, Oregon

Country (For Member Searching): USA

Me and the "meaning of life".

And again, with a beard

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AAI Convention, post-convention thoughts.

Posted on October 7, 2009 at 7:00pm 12 Comments 0 Likes

I want to start by saying a couple things about the blogging here. I started some months ago putting up regular posts, and then inexplicably stopped. This was due to some internal wrangling between Joe, Lamar and myself as to what this website was going to be, how it related to what’s going on at atheiskeptihumanist.com and atheistnews.org. I think these have all been worked out and I’ll be posting here again.

Now, on to the show.

As many of our listeners are aware (and… Continue

Beware, a wall of text.

Posted on November 21, 2008 at 1:43pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

I blog over on the Chariots of Iron site, and I just put up a long one over there, it was rather well thought out so i thought I'd mirror it here for AN users that don't visit our podcast site... and yes this has been a shameless plug for bot the blog and the podcast. The version there contains many links to some references. I don't mirror posts often, so I hope you enjoy this rant.

Today has been one of ups and downs and it’s not even noon… Continue

Moving things around. Chariots of Iron Blog Online.

Posted on September 9, 2008 at 12:03pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Over on the Wired.com blogs I saw an interesting article which relates precisely to the segment we did in season one, episode one.

This article does a much better job of pointing out some competing ideas, and gets into some information I did not have time to adequately cover in the segment, I strongly suggest clicking through the links in the article as well. I know that the LHC is dominating the minds of pop-science fans, but these are major breakthroughs going on which implications… Continue

Just a take on things...

Posted on July 30, 2008 at 11:10am 0 Comments 0 Likes

I was thinking of a thought experiment to try and teach my child when she comes of age about the very basics of religion and atheism and why I stand where I do. This is what came to me as I lay trying to fall asleep last night.

Take two cups, one clear and one opaque, fill the clear one up with stones, beads, etc.. or a wide range of colors, have the opaque cup upside-down on a table. Tell the person that under this cup there may or may not be a stone under the cup and then ask them… Continue

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At 6:40am on August 11, 2011, Sekharan Karuthedath said…: does your politics extend to watch Bill Maher on HBO. Being a movie fanatic, which are the 5 movies not to be missed?

At 7:58pm on July 28, 2011, Sekharan Karuthedath said…: Thanks for adding me. Nice to befriend you.

At 4:15pm on May 27, 2011, Ruth Anthony-Gardner said…: Greetings, Eli! I'd like to invite you to a group where we talk about anything on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D

At 12:35pm on November 20, 2010, Regina Silva said…: Hi, how are you?
About one of the atheist quotes in your profile: I am a neuroscientist, and my secret wish is to perform an experiment giving anti-psychotic drugs to these "mediunic" people...
:-)

At 11:36am on June 1, 2010, Chris P said…: Eli, I'm sending you an email response to the LFC discussion I started with you, let me know if you get it. I know the chariots has been having trouble with email, and now google crome is telling me that it cant find chariotsofiron.com or atheiskeptihumanist.com.

At 8:06pm on May 4, 2010, Wes Bonez said…: I am happy to see you are alive... =) Looking forward to your next rant or tirade on the 'cast. So, like I told Joe, please don't make me travel down from Bremerton to poke you guys with a pokey stick til the next show is posted for all to enjoy!

At 9:32pm on November 3, 2009, Richard J said…: Are those pics of you and your daughter recent? Still have the beard? She's gorgeous. I remember when my daughter was that age. It's wonderful.

At 9:28pm on November 3, 2009, Richard J said…: Hey Eli, who's house to you record Chariots of Iron in? Have you thought of asking Matt Delahunty on the show?

At 8:14pm on October 10, 2009, Tom Melchiorre said…: Would you believe I'm still on Pacific time? Took me 4 days to stop getting up at 4 am (East coast time, 7 am) and then on the 5th day I flew the redeye back. Been home 5 days and I may be in my time zone by Monday. Good to met you. See you next time.