expatriatus' photostream

To start, I'll tell you straightaway that I'm no photographer. I am interested in learning about all things related to culture, history and art. That's why I like Flickr. I stink in math. I like biology but am no good at it either. When I was a child and the librarian explained to my class the difference between the fiction and non-fiction section, I knew then that non-fiction is what I wanted. I want facts, not Santa Claus!

Pour commencer, je vous signale tout de suite que je ne suis POINT photographe. J'aime apprendre des choses qui ont un rapport avec la culture, l'histoire, et les arts. C'est pour ça que j'apprécie beacuop Flickr. Je suis nul en maths. J'aime beaucoup la biologie, mais j'y suis également minable. Lorsque j'étais petit et la bibliothécaire nous avait expliqué la différece entre les deux parties de la bibliothèque: fiction et non fiction, j'ai su tout de suite que je voulais consacrer mon temps à la partie non fiction. je veux des faits et non pas le Père Noël!



“Man is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.”

-- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Letters from the Earth, "The Damned Human Race," 1909

“. . . the very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe's Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly nine million women. History doesn't say much very good about God.”
-- Barbara G. Walker, "The Skeptical Feminist," acceptance speech for the "1993 Humanist Heroine" award by the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association, anthologized in Women Without Superstition
Here a some sites I like:
www.aclu.org/
www.ffrf.org
www.peterwerbe.com/ontheair.html
www.whiterosesociety.org/
atheisme.org/
www.drugpolicy.org/homepage.cfm
www.mfaw.org.uk/
www.hrw.org/
www.amnesty.org/
www.gsfp.org/
www.croa-at.com/
www.normalbobsmith.com/
www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/underwood_pscs.html
www.miniature-earth.com/
www.atheistnation.net

www.dotsub.com/