Having retired in April 2009, I gradually find time to get back to some of the efforts started earlier, such as a blog about the assembly of cubes from the shapes of playing pieces of the game Rumis. In 5 years, there were no comments or contributions to that topic, so it is probably warranted to start a new one, with a different title and different theme.
This blog is about sorting out some ideas by writing them down here. That will help with their consolidation and also their development into a clearer view than random thoughts and mental associations usually allow. There are, of course, topics that appear to be of particular relevance, to me and to society.
One of these is atheism as recently laid out forcefully by writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris; to round things out one should also mention Christopher Hitchens here. It is really important, also in view of a more and more globally organized world, to get rid of the concept of god at all as an ordering principle if a common ground between different cultures and human behavioral patterns is sought. To this end, the emotional need for rites and community experience needs to be filled without reference to a 'supreme being' – something that may take a couple of generations to achieve.
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