Death is interesting: retail edition
The deadest mall in America: Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. Nice video tours here. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Disclaimer This post doesn’t quite fit with the religion-n-science emphasis of psnt.net, but I’ve decided to put it up because dead malls are a seasonally-appropriate metaphor for this week’s theme — end times — and because [...]
On depression and “Buddhist science”
Not depressed: HHDL’s call for “Buddhist science” may make sense. Image source: buddhachannel.tv Several years ago I went on antidepressants. It was one of the most difficult, drawn-out, painful decisions I have ever made. When I finally did, though, there was very little pain and a lot of relief. Several days before my first prescription [...]
Repost: Door by door
Dear Alert Readers, This was first published, in a slightly longer form, several months ago. I am reposting it because it really fits my mood these days. Hope all is well with you and yours. Paul Doorway in Galileo’s villa. I took this photo in 2003 when I visited Arcetri, a small village just to [...]
Theology gone bad
Clarence Larkin, Book of Revelation, 1919. Click on the image for a high-resolution (3 MB) version. Amazing, isn’t it? It’s a much nicer presentation that the one I was offered in Sunday school when I was 11, but it has a lot of the same general features. Although Rev. Larkin was by all accounts a [...]
Buddha’s back
Image source: introductionbuddhism.info Pray allow me me a little self-disclosure. I am Christian in faith and practice. Nine hundred ninety-nine days out of a thousand, I don’t give serious thought to religions outside my own. I have had several opportunities to learn about Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc., some of them firsthand, but my understanding of [...]
Art Sunday: Pia Stern’s wonderful way out
Pia Stern, Rondo for Galileo. Oil on canvas, 2004-05. Used with permission of the artist I’ve been thinking a lot lately and it has kind of worn me out. I tend to live in my head. There may be some good things about this, I don’t know. But it can be a real weakness, and [...]
Door by door
Doorway in Galileo’s villa. I took this photo in 2003 when I visited Arcetri, a small Italian village just to the south of Florence. This is the interior of the house in which Galileo lived under house arrest from 1633 until he died in 1643. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art [...]
Live from New York: An atheist in free fall
This, from the New York Public Library: Author Mark Salzman (Iron and Silk, The Soloist, Lying Awake), became a stay-at-home parent in 2001. Eight years and three failed book manuscripts later, he had a nervous breakdown. Here he tells a sad story with a happy ending, and in so doing explores questions such as * [...]
Guest post: Todd Timberlake on science, religion, and life
Todd Timberlake in football mode. Some of you know of this gentleman from the psnt.net comment pages, but here’s more information about him. Todd is a professor of physics and astronomy at Berry College, a liberal-arts institution in Rome, GA. He attended Vanderbilt University as an undergraduate and received his doctoral degree from the University [...]
A creature so obviously in pain
Image source: www.myflyingdoggies.com Thеrе іѕ nοt аn animal that lives οn the earth, nοr a being that flies οn іtѕ wings, but forms раrt οf communities lіkе уοu… аnd in the end they shall all bе gathered tο their Lord. – Qur’an 6.38 We here at psnt.net have become aware of a story which must [...]
