Something Eloquent

I am an athe­ist. Most people will not be bothered by this; some people may be. I am not a “New Atheist” or an “Old Atheist”, I simply do not believe that there is a God or Gods. My reas­ons for this belief is likely very sim­ilar to the reas­ons of other non-believers in these times. There is no evid­ence for Gods, there is no needs for Gods in order to explain our exist­ence, there­fore there is no need to believe. I have read many argu­ments both for and against belief, often both sides are very elo­quent and cer­tain of them­selves, usu­ally the believer fails to con­vince because of his or her reli­ance on “per­sonal exper­i­ence” or “just hav­ing faith.” Neither of those argu­ments hold weight for a per­son look­ing for usable evidence.

I enjoy a wide vari­ety of music includ­ing Folk, Jazz, Rock, Punk, and a pleth­ora of sub-genres and hybrid-genres within those groups. Each style of music has inter­est­ing aspects, and in fact, there are many sim­il­ar­it­ies between them. Pete Seeger and The Dropkick Murphy’s often sing sim­ilar mes­sages, though their styles are worlds apart. I play the drums, though not nearly often enough. I like to think that I have some small amount of tal­ent, but fear that I would quickly be proven wrong if I was ever play­ing next to any­one. I used to play in a band called “Guilty Pleasures” it never really went any­where, but it was a lot of fun for what it was. I am also learn­ing how to play gui­tar, which is enjoy­able in a dif­fer­ent way to drumming.

I find sci­ence fas­cin­at­ing even though I have only a basic under­stand­ing of it’s vari­ous dis­cip­lines. Biology and Chemistry are def­in­itely inter­est­ing and chal­len­ging sub­jects, but I think that if I were to pick a dis­cip­line to study it would be either Physics or Cosmology. Physics is fas­cin­at­ing in it’s power to explain, it seems to have branches in so many dif­fer­ent fields that it’s dif­fi­cult to grasp. Physics also has huge areas where it is still learn­ing how to explain things, so to me it appears to be a power­ful yet still early in it’s devel­op­ment sci­ence. Cosmology is fas­cin­at­ing just by the merit of it’s scale. ~13.7 light years of expan­sion in this uni­verse, and the Earth is an insig­ni­fic­ant pale blue dot in an immense and ever-expanding, un-caring, chaotic field of blackness.

We’re lucky to be alive, and it’s amaz­ing that we are!