An Anniversary, an Index, and a Proposal

Here we are again, another year gone by. Tomorrow is two years since I put up the first post on this blog. I looked through the last year’s worth of posts just now, and I found to my surprise that they comprise not even a quarter of the total. A lot has happened in the last year, but day-to-day I haven’t really gotten any busier. Just lazier, I suppose. Or less enthusiastic.

On an unrelated note, I’ve been wondering if it might be useful to create a central index for the blogosphere. There are only a couple of dozen Jewish skeptic blogs at any given time, and the old ones tend to disappear, either because they’re taken down or because no one links to them anymore. What do you think?




Year Two Index

Best of
Bias and Rationality
An exploration of whether biases influence reasoning and whether those biases affect the validity of conclusions.
Corrupting Influences
Which is more dangerous – licentious material or dissenting information, and the use of the fear of the former to ban the latter.
Jewish Music
By far my most popular post. A side-by-side comparison of some mainstream “Jewish” songs and the pop tunes that they copied.
Eisav HaRasha?
A straight reading of the Chumash shows that Eisav wasn’t quite as evil as he’s made out to be, and Yaakov was no paragon of virtue.

Theology/Philosophy
Bias and Rationality
The Force Behind Nature
Just Shoot Him!
Euphemisms, Shema, and Paradigms
“God Himself Couldn’t Sink This Ship”Eisav HaRasha?
With Gratitude to Hashem…
Suicide is Painless…
The Celestial Bank

Response to articles / things read / events
Big Brother is Watching You…
Debugged Kashrus
Tiferes Yisroel Update
When Humans Become Gods

Reminiscing / culture
I Have Met the Other, and He is Me
Corrupting Influences
Jewish Music
Frummer Than God

Holidays
1st Century Spin Doctors

Search Judaism
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Four, section four I
Unfortunately, the last in the series. Maybe someday I’ll go back to it. Probably not. After a while it went from being fun to being annoying.

For Fun
Shaped Like a BLOGG!

Index

Best of
The Rasha
My first post. A brief explanation of my point of view.

Wild Mass Guessing
A discussion of why so many religious explanation seem so convoluted, with references to TVtropes, a favorite site of mine.

Objective Morality, or, God’s Classroom Rules
Why we’re so hung up on morality and its failure as a proof for religion.

Duex Ex Homo Sapiens
Possibly my favorite post, it references all of my favorite intellectual pursuits: theology, philosophy, psychology, and history. It’s also particularly well-written, if I do say so myself.

Does Being Wrong Make Something Wrong?
What is a valid way to evaluate the truth of a religion, and does the morality of a religion’s tenets have any bearing on its truth.

Search Judaism critique
The first post in the series, serving as a stand-in for the series so far. (I’ll be continuing it in the near future. Really!) Writing the critique has finally given me a practical use for all the bits of trivia I’ve picked up, and is basically a game of spot-the-error. That said, at least the author tried to approach religion rationally, something that the majority of people never do.

Blogging / debating
The Rasha
Selective Skeptical Debate – Or, Pushing Emotional Buttons
Am I A Zealot?
Live and Let Live


Theology
Boo Boo Bye Bye
Do Believers in the Afterlife Believe in After-Life?
Is God Good?
Why is Faith a Virtue?
Truth in Religion and Science: Working Backwards, Working Forwards
The Virtue of Faith Despite Adversity
Wild Mass Guessing
Duex Ex Homo Sapiens
Mechanistic Metaphysics
Does Being Wrong Make Something Wrong?
Free Will at Gunpoint
For Want of a Nail…

Path to skepticism
Once Upon A Time…
Fences of Tissue Paper
Growing Up Different
Effortful Thinking


Response to articles / things read
Cosmic Coincidence
Eating is Sexy
Bloggers vs. Conformists
Bloggers vs. Conformists Redux
Shabbos Reading
Defenders of the Faith
Haman’s Ingratitude


Reminiscing / culture
The Girl in the Blue Uniform
Condemned to the Fiery Pits of Shul
An Exercise in Self-Righteousness
Don’t Be A Baal HaBayis
The Unwashed Masses
Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
People Like Me in Entertainment Media
V’shinantam L’vanecha…
The Kollel Meme


Morality
Is it Wrong to be Immoral?
Objective Morality, or, God’s Classroom Rules


Holidays
For Whom do We Mourn
Ellul, the Month of the Storm God


Nihilism
Does the Future Matter?
The Worth of a Sandwich


Search Judaism
A Gift of Apologetics
Search Judaism – A Critique: Introduction & Chapter One, section one
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter One, section two
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter One, section three
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter One, section four
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Two, section one
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Two, section two
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Two, section three
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Three, section one
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Three, section two
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Three, section three
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Three, section four
Search Judaism – A Critique: Part Two (I)
Search Judaism – A Critique: Part Two (II)
Search Judaism – A Critique: Part Two (III)
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Four, section one
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Four, section two
Search Judaism – A Critique: Chapter Four, section three
Search Judaism – A Critique: Clearing up Contradictions


For Fun
The Agudah Convention (A Parody)
The Devil’s Dictionary
I’m Psychic!