OK, so I realized recently that nearly 5 months has gone by in 2009 and I haven’t written a single article. But I don’t have anything to write about. It’s like I wore myself out. I had so many thoughts and ideas and wrote them down that everything since has been a rehash of those thoughts. I still engage people on Twitter but even that has slowed.
I wouldn’t say I’m tired of being an atheist, I’m tired of caring. I got it out of my system and I don’t feel the need to point it out. I still hate religion for the harm that it causes and the retarded decision people make based of those religions and beliefs in supernatural beings. Regardless of whether I keep writing articles I will leave all of this available to those people who are looking for answers or just exploring.
My wife is still a believer and I don’t get in the way of her teaching that stuff to our daughter. I assume when my daughter makes her own decision later in life she’ll have the capability to choose. With a religious mother and a non-religious father she sees both sides. My daughter has never read the articles on this site but I hope someday she’s find them interesting.
The name Brand New Atheist was very clever when I learned the truth and created this site. However, I’ve noticed I get treated like someone who became an atheist yesterday because of the name. I’m considering using something different in the future.
I run my own business and business has been extremely slow. I work for clients in the ad business and some of the first cuts that get made in a slow economy are ad budgets. Everything is not caught up but I assume most people who read this know what I mean. When my clients don’t work neither do I. It doesn’t bother me that much because I always assume something will be in my way of success. I just keep trying.
In 2007 my wife and I adopted my niece, we wanted to give her something we didn’t think she was going to get otherwise. After being with us for 2 years, my niece (age 15 now) left. She didn’t want to be part of our family and she wanted to go back to her grandmothers (where there are far fewer rules). We let her go back because she was going to make us miserable if we didn’t. Can you imagine the expense this experience has cost us. Fortunately our household is back to the way it was before the adoption but the expense remains. It’s always something.
I’ve had my sister-in-law engage me in religious conversation recently. The conversations have been quite nice.
My Xbox360 died from the RedRingofDeath and Sam’s Club replaced it for free even though it was 3.5 years old. That was cool. Then my wife reminded me we don’t shop at Sam’s Club or Walmart because they are horrible companies like Monsanto.
I’ve been on a food kick recently. I became a vegetarian last year (my daughter has been for 3 years) and I thought not eating meat was going to difficult. Now I find out that a large portion of the crops grown are genetically modified organisms (GMO) and they haven’t been tested properly for human consumption. Now I’m not only a vegetarian but the majority of what I eat has to be organic. As soon as I’m done writing this I’m going to watch, The Man from Earth, and I’m going to eat organic tortilla chips with organic salsa and drink my organic lemonade.
My daughter (age 12) has been rehearsing for a Narnia play for months at the Louisville Youth Theater. She has seven showings this weekend. I’m very proud of her. I’ll get to see the play on Sunday, after which we will take her out to eat and surprise her with the gift of a Nintendo Wii.
Well that’s where I’m at. Just a (mostly) normal guy trying to get by and make a better world for my daughter.
