Author Archives: Rastaban

6 Points for a Graduation Speech

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Rastaban

First: I’m only a beginner at life. I’ve never been alive before — this is my first time. That means I’m going to make mistakes. That’s ok. Understand that it’s only inexperience. I’ll try to understand your mistakes if you’ll … Continue reading →

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A Few Broad Strokes

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Rastaban

Religious atheism can be seen as an attempt to fix religion’s flaws and eliminate its untenable assertions. Most of those flaws revolve around the concept of a spiritual world separate and remote from the physical world of bodies we inhabit … Continue reading →

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the Naked Atheist

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Rastaban

Had the gods bodies like men and women, desire would be the elixir, passion the holy sacrament, coitus the zenith of heaven. But the gods are forever bodiless, and so bodily delight — the greatest wonderment of all — became … Continue reading →

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Resurrection

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Rastaban

The first Sunday after the first full moon after the first equinox of the year, rise early and lean outside in the spiced air, listen to the bells ringing. Morning bells, bells of the far churches chuckling their delight for … Continue reading →

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Jenny’s Wind

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Rastaban

Jenny would love this gusty wind were she with me here to see it playing in these tall oak and birch she knows so well. Yes, Jenny would love this gutty wind which sneaks beneath the leaves, rustling them until … Continue reading →

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Here or Elsewhere?

Posted on May 29, 2005 by Rastaban

The first great question of life is: here or elsewhere? All our hungers, emotions, fears, inclinations, perceptions, desires, urges, obsessions, wants, instincts and needs answer here. Yet the answer of all the great religions is elsewhere. It wasn’t always so. … Continue reading →

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