After many months of this spiritual journey, and I’ve calculated over 1000 hours of time spent reading / researching (that doesn’t include pondering) Shawn’s Odyssey is converging to a certain standpoint. I’ve taken the time to prepare the following video for…
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Over the past few months I’ve seen this quote bouncing around Facebook occasionally and picked it as the topic for my new blog article. The quote can be found here: C.S Lewis on Reasoning to Atheism “Supposing there was no intelligence…
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One of the most common issues with the theory of evolution is the difficulty of grasping that our lives and consciousness came about “just by chance”, as a result of random fluctuations or movements within the universe. Even if one…
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Three years ago I wrote an article on my personal blog about the concept of mature religion, wherein I expressed some sentiments of sadness and frustration at our unnecessary and unfair patronisation of science as religious adherents, as well as…
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Here’s a collection of some top thought-provoking quotes from “different sides” of “the discussion”. (But naturally for them to be thought provoking to me many of these are from the “other side”). These are included for the fact that they are thought-provoking…
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Even if my personal journey results in my continuing to believe as I have heretofore done, there are some things that will change in my belief system as a result of refinement and sincere questioning. In a sense my faith…
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When we were young children, during the process of our natural development we eventually come to understand what “why” means and what a reason for something is. We come to understand that there can be purposes, meaning or significance behind…
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After months of my personal journey into learning and discovery, I feel I’ve reached a point where the information I have and continue to collect seems to fit within three major categories – all of which have enough substance to…
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I looked down at a swarm of ants, scurrying rapidly around an old rotted tree stump, Thousands of them, scuttling in every direction, as if it were pay-day. Like little speeding bullets, their motion was highly complex, and seemingly random.…
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Short post: it’s all over the internet, the church has formally released an essay Joseph Smith the Seer which contains an explanation about the seer stone used by Joseph to translate the Book of Mormon. “In fact, historical evidence shows that…
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