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So, I finally found out what I'm supposed to call myself religiously. I'm a pantheist.

Here's the list of beliefs(taken from here, though I'm not a member of that website):

1. We revere and celebrate the Universe as the totality of being, past, present and future. It is self-organizing, ever-evolving and inexhaustibly diverse. Its overwhelming power, beauty and fundamental mystery compel the deepest human reverence and wonder.
2. All matter, energy,

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I had to apologize to my mother today for not calling her on my birthday, as I have begun to do. Most people think it odd that I suggest such a thing, after all, shouldn't your mother call you on your birthday? Well, I don't happen to believe
so.
When I was in the first grade, my gym teacher told me something that I have chewed on for over 15 years. I don't remember a whole lot of specific words of wisdom from that early age, but I do remember what he told me. I recall being ...

Physicists (Rationals) with May Birthdays

A correlation* story:

• In college I had an upper-level physics course with four other students plus the professor (6 total).
• All but one of us had a birthday in May (83%).
• We were all Math/Science nerds (Rationals, I'm guessing).
• Was it due to Zodiacal influence? My scientific nature seriously doubted it:

• Being an astronomer, I knew that the sun now travels through the constellations in the wrong months.
• And

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