Convalescence
I participate in my first carnival, join Planet Atheism and make Pharyngula’s mile-long blogroll (look for me among the “People of Reason”), and what happens? I get sick and don’t post anything at all for a week.
I’ve had plenty of ideas and inspiration and would like to imagine that I’m now about to go off in a frenzy of blogging about all sorts of erudite topics. Problem is I seem to have had most of my ideas while in a fever, and now I can’t remember them.
While I gather my thoughts, those of you who read Swedish should hop on over to Nordic Dervish and read his posts on the seminar about freedom of speech with Lars Vilks that happened last week. I had planned on going, but it didn’t seem like a good idea seeing as I was having trouble staying upright at the time. Apparently, some muslims turned up to tell the people present that “we love the prophet more than our parents, we love the prophet more than our wives, we love the prophet more than our children and what would you say if I called you a dog?” Given how unlikely Swedes are to suffer from religion-induced cynophobia, I doubt the response from the audience was particularly understanding of their point. The muslims proceeded to vaguely threaten the artist in arabic. If you don’t understand Swedish you can still see some pictures from the seminar here.
ETA: Apparently FOX reported from the seminar. I’m doubtful that everything in the report is true, but I guess it’s accurate enough.
Also, check out Bob - he’s not as scary as the mohawk will have you think. He’s been writing some good stuff about alternative sexualities clashing with churches recently. I have this devious plan that perhaps more traffic will make him blog more often.
In other news, I just discovered that Panda’s Thumb has a hot new layout (which for all I know may be a few weeks old, as I can’t remember when I last visited them) with a bee in it! This makes me happy.
In my opinion, someone who actually loves a guy who died 1375 years ago more than their children should be offered psychiatric treatment. And be allowed to visit their children in foster care no more than twice a year.
Comment by Martin R — Wednesday, September 26, 2007 @ 12:05
Martin, One would hope that these dudes have only deluded themselves into thinking that they love the prophet more. In the end they are animals like us and their children should be dearer to them than they appear to realise. But if what they said was actually true, well, then I agree with you 100 %.
Comment by Felicia Gilljam — Wednesday, September 26, 2007 @ 12:56
Ha ha, thanks for the mention Fu. I am indeed lax in my self-inflicted blogging obligations. Must do better. * Slaps wrist. *
Comment by Bob — Tuesday, October 2, 2007 @ 14:28