Joseph P's Page

What about you? Any new novels?

I'm working on scientific kid's books to fund my book: The Asymptotic World. It is about the epistemology of the true and factual worlds and how the blurring together of conjecture and absolute is destroying the progression of human intelligence. As for Idaho, I am moving out of this black hole. I have found very few logical atheists who aren't wrapped up in how smart they are for being atheist. All the rest are pagan (who fascinating enough seem more open to logic than most atheists in this place) and christians. This place rarely changes and either do the people here. I can't wait to find a place with a healthy intellectual pulse. Not everyone in Idaho is lack luster, just most of them. And if you are someone like me who doesn't like football, beer or drugs of any kind and are not christian, it is a bleak place.

Yeah that would be great. That's one reason I joined this group. I have a list of resources that I'm planning to check out tomorrow, such as Who Wrote the New Testiment? The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton Mack, A History of God by Karen Armstrong, Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert Ingersoll, The Bible with Sources Revealed by Richard Friedman, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine to name a few. I'm mostly interested in solidifying my argument against a theistic god, since I know that once I'm "out of the closet" I will have to answer to alot of Christians in my life, including my husband, so I better be damn sure what I'm talking about. I don't want to come across as some disillusioned, rebellious Christian who's really just angry at god or whatever. Do you know of anything that talks about the Kalam Cosmological argument? It basically says that whatever begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause. Christians infer that god must've been the first cause of the universe. I'm also interested in books dealing with morality without god. I hear all the time that morality is based on god, the moral lawgiver, and without god there can be no morals. I  know that's bullcrap but I'd like to read something that strongly argues against this so I can strengthen my arguments about why I don't believe that. Thanks for reaching out to me, I appreciate it.

My parents are relatively liberal. It's the rest of the family that I have to worry about (grandparents). I'm still surprised to this day that I have meet so many accepting people in such a small town in the bible belt. Yet, I find myself rather alone at time. That has caused me to search for a community like this, and I'm ecstatic to have found one!

I've never actually read any of his stuff before... I know, I know, I'll get on that! I've heard good things!

Hey thanks! I'm still at school right now, so much of my current writing is in the field of historiography and primary source research. But when I actually get to write for pleasure it's usually in the fiction/humor genres.

Definitely not. I'm just happy when I find a pretty liberal Christian. Luckily I've managed to find enough atheist to keep me sane. =P And hopefully will find more when I move to Columbia (which is a college town)!