At different points around Delhi, I saw little tent communities like this one; where people literally live on the sidewalk -but with some privacy and shelter where they can actually sleep undisturbed and go about their day, earning enough to eat at least. I saw one of these rows of tents erected along a creek, […]
How to get pneumonia in a tropical country
When I first arrived in Delhi, I stepped out of the airport to see a blanket of fog in late afternoon. Fog is an early morning occurrence. So what’s going on here? At first the locals told me that the fog never lifts because it is winter and it is cold. But I don’t think […]
Aron’s Travails in India
As many of Aron Ra’s Facebook friends already know, he went to the hospital for pneumonia, after staying in Delhi, India. As his wife, I can tell you in the 8 years I have known him; he has never been seriously ill. He was admitted with a temperature of 41.2 Celsius; that is 106 Fahrenheit […]
Riding through Agra
To get to the World Atheist conference in Vijayawada, I had to connect in Delhi. Having never been to India, I arranged a layover. A friend who lives there hired a car to take me to Agra for the purpose of seeing the Taj Mahal. If I’m in India anyway, I may as well see […]
Hopping through Arabian Airports
I’ve heard that Qatar is one of those places where atheism carries a death sentence. We call it k’TAR, but the locals seem to call it CATTar. All I saw was Hamad Airport in Doha. It’s a huge ultra-modern hub and the people are justifiably very proud of it. It tempts me to take a […]
Lemmy RIP
In 1982, I was all about Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. But a few of my friends told me that I reminded them of someone else. They showed me a picture of Lemmy Kilmister, front man and bassist for speed-metal band, Motörhead. The thing is, at that moment, by sheer coincidence, I happened to be […]
FBB fund against the Texas twister
Due to the F4 wedge tornado that killed a dozen people in our neighborhood last night, the Foundation Beyond Belief has initiated an aid donation facebook fund to help affected survivors.
Texas weather has gone all “Texas” down here
Yes, Texas weather has gone plumb haywire, or “Texas” in Norwegian slang. On the East side of Dallas,where Aron Ra and I live, secular relief efforts are underway from an estimated 11 tornadoes that tore through Dallas county and neighboring counties to the North and East. Tornadoes in December are rare, and the one that […]
Governor Abbott: FFRF Capitol Holiday Display “Mocks Religious Beliefs” and must go.
In a characteristic display of both irony and projection, Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a show of disrespect to the state’s nonbelievers ordered the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s holiday display removed from where it had been squirreled away on the basement floor for this reason: “The Constitution does not require Texas to allow displays in its […]
Refuting the allegedly irrefutable proof of God
David C. Pack of the Restored Church of God made five half-hour videos claiming to list what he says are indisputable irrefutable absolute proof of God. I’m making a series of videos disputing refuting and absolutely disproving his claims point by point. Last week I showed the first video of that series, which was an […]