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I’ve just sorted through the blogroll and list of links on the left, weeding out the sites which have become defunct since my departure from the intertubes. If you’ve been kicked off by mistake, let me know so that I can keep things up-to-date!
Proper post (about samurai and swordfighting and stuff) will be up tomorrow.
Yes, after some months of soul-searching (which was tricky, since I don’t believe I have a soul), I’ve decided to get back on my internet bike and return to blogdom. Given the current challenges of day-to-day life (nappies, milk, nappies, clean up vomit, nappies, milk, nap, four hour scream-a-thon), post are liable to be less regular than they once were, but I’m going to aim for one per week where possible. So, like a phoenix rising from the ashes zombie clawing its unholy way out of a grave, Right To Think lives again!
MWAH-HAHAHAHAAA!
I’ve decided to take a bit of a sabbatical from blogging – with a new baby due any day, severely curtailed internet access and, frankly, little to add to what I’ve posted over the last year or so, it seems prudent to put Right To Think on hold for a while. I may recommence writing next year, when Wifeshui goes back to work and I become a full-time house-husband, but for the time being, you’ll have to manage without my outpourings of snark. No promises though – this could spell the end of my career as an atheist blogger, for reasons not dissimilar to those the Exterminator gave when he bowed out of the game last December. Arguing the toss with theists, whilst fun, has ceased to seem like a worthwhile use of my energies. There was a time when I thought the question, “Does God exist?” was the most important one a human could ask, but now I realise that it’s on a par with “Does the Loch Ness Monster exist?” it seems far less relevent. The question, for me at least, is answered, and I see no real reason to carry on defending my viewpoint to all and sundry.
Never say never, though; Right To Think may return at some point, so keep your RSS feeds tuned! In the meantime, feel free to browse through the archives on the left, and I’ll no doubt see you on the comments thread at someone else’s blog.
All the best,
yunshui
Apparently, I’m a big hit in Cobourg, Ontario – right behind Hemant in the top atheist blogs list. Cheers, Canadian fans, and especially John Draper, owner of The Cobourg Atheist. It’s nice to be popular.
Should you want to find out more about my followers in Ontario’s Feel Good Town, why not check out the town’s blog, investigate its fascinating history, or plan your next holiday there? Cobourg, Ontario – proof that Canadians really do have better taste than their southern neighbours.
Right To Think will be hosting the Carnival of the Godless in two weeks’ time (the current issue is at State of Protest), so get your submissions in!
It looks like postings on Right To Think may be a little thin on the ground in the coming weeks – my access to the magic of the internet has been severely curtailed, and I currently have other writing assignments to devote my typing hours to, plus I’ll be keeping an eye on Bridging Schisms whils Eshu’s on holiday next week. Rest assured that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible, and there’s a Carnival of the Godless on its way before the end of the month to look forward too as well!
Exactly one year ago today, I sat down at my computer and tapped out the first ever post of Right To Think. Today, a year later, I thought it was high time to review the last twelve months. Feel free to skip this post if self-indulgent blog-related crap isn’t your thing – tomorrow I’m bound to have something more interesting up, so you’re very welcome to come back then.
I was inspired to start writing about my atheism by many other bloggers, and the blogroll on the left has grown substantially over time. Some of the links on there need updating, and some belong to blogs which are now defunct, but most will take you to the sites of writers I consider eloquent, well-informed, witty and intelligent. I even count a few of them among my friends. Travelling the blogosphere has exposed me to a hugely diverse range of opinions and has really helped me to clarify my thinking – I’d recommend a year on the intertubes to anyone who wants to really get to grips with what they think and believe.
Overall, I’ve found this blog a very positive experience – I’ve met many interesting people, encountered all kinds of compelling and not-so-compelling arguments, researched a whole bunch of stuff I would never even have thought about otherwise and (I think) improved a bit as a writer. Generally speaking, it’s been a laugh. There’ve been times when I’ve seriously considered packing it all in, as a number of my favourite fellow bloggers have done, but every time I find that there’s something new out there to get my teeth into, and as long as that continues to happen, I’m going to continue to write.
For those of you who are visiting for the first time today, I present a quick retrospective of some of my favourite highlights from this blog’s history:
My deconversion story
I conclusively disprove God
I start a new website with the aid of andyinthepiewithalmonds (now andybeingachristian) but it dies some months later…
I abbreviate some of the Lost Gospels: The Gospel of Thomas, The Acts Of Peter and Paul’s Apocalypse all get “interpreted”…
Debra Rufini and I bump heads – twice – but then I actually get to know her and apologise for being an arse.
Rhology pops up, and he, Exterminator and Phillychief trade verbal assaults all over my comment threads…
I compose the World’s First Completely Accurate Horoscope and doom myself to writing astrological parodies for the rest of my blogging career…
The emotional need for faith
I start looking at the more obscure religious beliefs out there.
Humans- not intelligently designed
I interview a few other atheist bloggers.
A Halloween story
I write poetry – it’s not about atheism, but it’s fun.
A scientific experiment proves the woo.
Will Bowman gets his pants in a twist about evolution – I help to extricate him.
The Non-Believing Literati move from No More Hornets over to Right To Think.
I tackle the 4-Step Perfect Proof of God (in two parts). It turns out to be imperfect after all.
Dr Dr Dr Michael Bisconti MD PhD MSN GSOH provides a few giggles, until I realise that he’s a Poe.
A bit of creative writing
I concede that religion might be true
I hope you’ve all enjoyed the last year as much as I have!
Wifeshui and I have now come into possession of our own house (yay!). The previous occupants had the DIY skills of a lemming and put them to use throughout the property (boo!). Thankfully I have enough power tools at my disposal to give Tim Allen multiple orgasms (there’s a mental image you really wanted!) so much repair work will be going into our new property’s transformation from ex-council hovel to des-res home.
As a result, my spare time over the next week or two will mostly be a litany of sawing, drilling and hammering, with intermittent diversions into steaming, painting and using big-ass pieces of hired machinery to smash things. Woot! Unfortunately this means you will probably be spared my usual rantings and wibble, since my typing fingers will be heavily bandaged most of the time. Why not go and read one of Daniel’s Top Thirty blogs (I’m not in it – not that I’m bitter or anything (although Mr Florien might like to know that the horse’s head on his counterpane was not accidental…)) instead? Your RSS feed will let you know when I’ve pulled off my sweaty boilersuit and got stuck back into the atheism thing again.
Google’s been punching traffic my way thick and fast over the last few months (currently “right to think” and “yunshui” will find me fastest), but as all bloggers know, some of the searches that send traffic to one’s blog can be a little… unexpected. Here, then, are some of my favourites from the last couple of months…
why god made me psychic – You’re the psychic, you tell me.
double sexual organs
both male and female sex organ – Umm… I really don’t recall doing a post on hermaphrodites…
ecercise for scrotm – Try this one.
animal cell designed as an amusement park – I don’t think it was, no. Mitochondria really aren’t that amusing.
is tony blair an athiest – Not in any way. Why would you even need to ask this?
silly question to ask a boy you like – How about: “Do you find gonorrhoea an attractive quality in a girl?”
hate working for waterstones – So did I, that’s why I left. You should too.
what does a medium do? – Slightly less than a large.
ray charles epic fail – Dude, Ray Charles is pure, unadulterated WIN.
matthew hagee weight loss – This may be the only time you ever see those four words juxtaposed.
i hate gays – Oh, nice.
male sex organs in llamas - WTF?
hating homosexuals is okay – Er… no. No it isn’t.
explosive demolition instructor – Step one: Take a step back. Step two: take several more…
is reiki the healing hands of jesus – I don’t even know where to start on the problems with this question.
iron biblically – “And thou shalt take unto thyself the uppermost crease of the trouser, and thou shalt apply the steam setting, excepting that the trouser be of polyester…”
epic sex - Yes, thank you.
who is the right messiah? – There’s a choice? I’d go with c): None of the above.
i hate shaitan and want to defeat him – Good for you, lad, best of luck with that.
And of course:
accurate horoscope – You people don’t know when to quit, do you?
A couple of weeks back I put up a post excoriating the arguments made by Debra Rufini in an e-mail to Richard Dawkins. I said some quite unkind things (I think “intellectually dishonest hag” was about the worst) and I was scathing and dismissive of her position.
I have since exchanged a number of e-mails with Debra, and would like to apologise to her for the tone of my earlier post. I still think her arguments are utter balderdash, and stand my refutation of them, but there was no need to be quite so vicious about it. I’d therefore like to use this post to say sorry to Debra, who has proved to be an interesting and affable correspondant, and to assure her that I will not resort to such ad hominem attacks against her again.
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