Is it going against Atheism if I want to have sex with Crash Bandicoot?

I personally like neither Dawkins' "science proves atheism" (paraphrase) nor Gould's "nonoverlapping magisteria." Just thought you'd like to know.

Actually the latter of those two positions seems monumentally crappy to me.

I don't want to identify as Agnostic, because that so often has connotations of a commitment to philosophical skepticism. I'm coining the adjective pretheistic. If it already exists in anthropology (which I doubt), then I should consider myself delighted.

What I'm trying to capture in pretheism is the optimism that one will have better knowledge about these things in the future than one does now. The coinage is a bit ironic, since it really doesn't presuppose theism as an endpoint. I guess it's like agnosticism without the resignation.

The coinage is ironic.

Time Wasted

The Toronto sky is not usually very interesting, and mostly starless at night, but lately by sitting through some nights at my east window from sunset to sunrise I've come to appreciate a few things.

First, on an overcast evening, when the sky and the Earth and the city facing into the sunset are briefly all of the same light, the whole scene fades---becomes like a medieval tapestry or something Fauvist, without light, darkness or depth.

Second, these days the moon, almost new, is rising in the mornings above the sun, as if it is a herald. If you catch it just before it's overwhelmed by the day it will please you.