Dear lovely death That taketh all things under wing- Never to kill- Only to change Into some other thing This suffering flesh, To make it either more or less, Yet not again the same- Dear lovely death, Change is thy other name. -Langston Hughes I have been coping with dying for as long as I can remember. I am not terminally ill, I am not sick; I’ve had no psychic vision of my own demise. I have struggled with fear … Read on…
In September 2007, at the American Atheist International conference, Sam Harris recalled the American racial lynchings of the first half of the 20th century, when huge crowds in the Deep South-bankers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, ministers, newspaper editors, police, sometimes even Senators and Congressmen-turned out as if for a family picnic to watch the torture-death of some young man or woman, then the body hung on a tree or lamppost for public display. If you have doubts, click to this link … Read on…
Our very own Chuck Lesher, the author of our Eloquent Engineer series, has been honored with a Best of the Moon Fiction Award for 2007. The winning work was Chuck’s novel Evolution’s Child. The following links will give you the full story: The Awards The Book We are as proud as we can be of Chuck. He is an excellent writer and futurist whose works will continue to entertain and enlighten us well into the future he predicts so accurately.
How do you describe nothing? With difficulty, I imagine, with a lack of power, conviction, no steady rock describing God motivations to stand fast upon. No mad lantern glow to bask in, to let the fires of enlightened insanity draw you in like a moth. No, it’s being defined by the contradiction: a world of yes resting on a pedestal of no, sinking further and deeper down like warm ice cream, the whole universe a sticky mess gumming up your … Read on…