Thursday, 15 May 2014

How I Ended Up Learning Chinese (Part Two)

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How I Ended Up Learning Chinese ~or~ Divorce and Consequences. So we arrived in Canada with a plan.  Soon enough, we’d leave witho...
Wednesday, 14 May 2014

How I Ended Up Learning Chinese (Part One)

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How I Ended Up Learning Chinese ~or~ Divorce and Consequences. I couldn’t come up with a good way of putting this into a video, a...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Corruption in Contemporary Buddhism

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[佛教中的貪腐] Three anecdotes in ten minutes, involving Japan [日本], Thailand [泰國], and Laos [老窩/遼國]. On Youtube:  http://youtu.be/qI7lgVULW...
Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Richard Dawkins Endures Buddhist Chanting

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Just the first 30 seconds of this video... just 30 seconds, I promise you... A nice moment, expressed both through the narration and the exp...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Listening to Abenakis, an extinct language

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I just listened to the two audio-recordings of Abenakis being spoken from the top of this web-page. I could, indeed, recognize several wor...

Richard Dawkins Eats Meat and Makes Excuses for It

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Richard Dawkins is not vegetarian, and never has been; but he's got a lifetime of lame excuses and diversionary tactics behind him, whe...
Saturday, 3 May 2014

The "Atoms" of the Chinese Written Language

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"...we can't always understand the character better by breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces; sometimes, instead, we h...
Friday, 18 April 2014

On Youtube, Atheism and Apotheosis: Regarding Religion as History

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“…we tend to let ourselves imagine that a skeptical reading of mythology reveals something other than a myth… conversely, one interesting...
Saturday, 5 April 2014

Your questions answered (on Youtube)

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Circa 12 minutes into the tape: "I got a message a couple of days ago that was really specifying that I had lived a better life o...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

The daughter I'll never see again

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Cute, if you watch it with the sound off. On Youtube:  http://youtu.be/PvnSIOmIiJ4