Eve Ensler | The Short Version

Sexual Awareness Unfolds: Eve Ensler and V-Day

March 20, 2008 by Norm Bearrentine Leave a Comment

I’ve been like a kid in a candy store the last few days, watching Ted Talks. Every one I’ve watched has been amazingly good, but the one I saw this morning by Eve Ensler was a real show-stopper. She is the woman who wrote and … [Read more...]

When I realized that the idea of god was a joke, I thought that was the end of the story. Later I found that Christianity had shaped my values, and while some were worth keeping, many had lost their foundation—the meaning of life, for example. Something similar happened when I realized that the idea of free will was a joke, and I’ve spent the decades since both those realizations discovering and editing what Julia Galef calls the “orphan beliefs” they left behind. It’s a tricky business, and this blog has been a chronicle of my efforts to puzzle it all out, including reviews of related books. I hope you find it helpful.