"Pray as if everything depends upon God. Work as if everything depends on you."
-St. Augustine of Hippo, Doctor of the Church

Hello, and welcome to my channel!

I seek to dispel some misconceptions of Catholicism and discuss/debate the existence of God (though I have doubts if one can ever prove it directly; I was a secular humanist after all). I also hope to learn a bit of calculus and come to a greater understanding of biology so as to survive the inevitable advent of Senior year and stave off senioritis.

(I also ask whoever cares to read this to pardon the fulminations and ranted anathemas I've written against them or anyone else.)

However, religion is not the sole reason for this channel (it honestly just cropped up after all the trolling...). The real reason this channel exists is because of my love for music, especially music of the baroque and classical kind (I like others of course, but these are surely the best by far). I'm glad to say that I've had the fortune to have listened to a multitude of beautiful compositions, and I hope to listen to a great many more before I keel over.

Humourous videos of semi-political and political nature may also make their way onto this channel.

Lux et Lex Aeterna

I was born and raised a Roman Catholic (yes, I'm a Godbotherer). I became an atheist at 8 and a secular humanist and secularist two years after. I reconverted at 16, after years of acting as a strawman religious. I regret the dishonesty immensely. My interests run in theological, musical, medical, and scientific channels. Friendly conversation, civil debate, and constructive criticism are welcome; spam, insults (veiled or otherwise) are not.
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I have found atheistic vs. theistic (often entwined with evolution vs. ID) debates to be both interesting and rather...vicious. I have also found that the objective debate eventually barges through the hermeneutical fence and ends up a subjective matter (you say yes when I say no; you say no when I say yes). Yet another thing I have uncovered is the trend for both theists and atheists to fall into two rather broad categories:

1) Rational debaters, confident in their position, sometimes with a holier/more rational-than thou/Dawkins-ish attitude which can be tolerated (to an extent, ad hominems are unwelcome).

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2) Rather dogmatic 'debaters' who like to either quote bible verses (as if that would help), or type out something along the lines of: URR A FRACKIN MORON THERZE NO SUCH THING AS GOD!!!!111!!0!!1!1111, etc.

I have far more respect for someone who says "yes, I understand what you are saying but I just can't bring myself to believe it" rather than the smack-down, "you're a bloody idiot for believing these fairy tales."
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Related Rant
Thoughts on the Use of Sarcasm in Typing Media:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SARC

Sarcasm is most appreciable when face-to-face, when typing or discussing something online... not so much. Please take care to remember this.
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I've also come to notice that people online tend to be far more... aggressive? Rude? Boorish? Whatever one calls it, we all ought to try and refrain from engaging in such misconduct.
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For the sake of my studies and social life (I'm not going to be studying philosophy in college) I think I'll turn my attention to other matters, like organic chemistry and calculus... brrrrrr.

I'm also an insomniac, so... do any of you have an idea for helping me get to sleep? (Please leave a comment if you do. Thanks.) Applicable as of January 27, 2011.

Pax et Dominus Vobiscum

And yes, I *do* subscribe to the Theory of Evolution.