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Dec 30th

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When I say "faith" do you think religion?

After posting Faith in the Process I came across Richard Dawkins. He uses the term faith synonymously with religious and that surprises me. I use that word a lot, but I don’t think of it in the same way. Dawkins has said Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of...

Dec 30th

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“The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting...”

– Henry Miller

Dec 25th

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Your tools, not my tools

Something that I’m always looking for are my tools. What do I need to be creative? I have a few tools I use: Scrivener - for writing on my laptop. I love it becuase there is a full screen mode which blocks everything out. Plus I can choose the backgroud colour depending on my mood. Moleskine(s) - a reporter style for tasks, regular lines for creative writing and journals, and a blank...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

Thank you, Porn?

I knew there was a lot of porn on the web. It’s a given. But I wasn’t aware of the impact of the industry until reading this little article, 12 ways porn has changed the web. Case in point. #7: Broadband In the 1990s, Penthouse magazine gave away 2400-baud modems with the periodical’s logo on them, according to Gerard Van Der Leun, former director of Penthouse.com and current contributor to...

Dec 22nd

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