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    If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.

    - Thomas Merton, from New Seeds of Contemplation

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    Image of Saturn (tbsp) and Rhea courtesy NASA/JPL

    Archive for the "Fun with science & religion!" Category

    Cleese parodies everyone! What fun!

    We at psnt.net have just discovered this marvel, thanks to Eric Reitan at The Piety that Lies Between. Mr. Reitan posted this a few weeks ago. It’s John Cleese on science and religion, so it’s really funny. God knows we all need to sit back and have a good laugh at ourselves. (NB: If you’re [...]

    Operation midweek entertainment: the Möbius strip and you

    It’s not an optical illusion, but it looks like one: the Möbius strip. Image created by Peter Gosling and featured among a host of fun optical illusions at Uniview Worldwide. The German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius was born on this day in 1790. So happy 220th, August! BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST, go scare up [...]

    Just for you: a nice science & religion time sink

    The so-called Flammarion woodcut shows a medieval pilgrim crawling off the edge of a flat Earth and breaking through the crystalline spheres that were at one time believed to surround us. Since antiquity virtually no educated people have believed the Earth was flat, but scientists continued to debate the physical reality of celestial spheres well [...]