Episode 217 :: Greta Christina :: Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing To Do With God
Greta Christina
Author Greta Christina joins us to speak about her new minibook, Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing To Do With God.
Given enough time, the survival rate of life is exactly zero. There are no exceptions; at some point, we will all die. Different religions, including Buddhism, have different assertions about what happens when we die that are conflicting, and yet spoken about with glib certainty — by the living, who’ve managed to still have a pulse. So, what about us atheists, secular humanists, and secular Buddhists? What ideas come up for us in our natural-centric world view?
Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of “Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless,” and of “Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More,” and is editor of “Paying For It: A Guide for Sex Workers for Their Clients.” She has been a public speaker for many years, and is on the speaker’s bureaus of the Secular Student Alliance. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including “Everything You Know About God Is Wrong” and three volumes of “Best American Erotica.” She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid.
So, sit back, relax, and have a nice Tab, because how long has it been since you’ve had one of those?
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Web Links
- Greta Christina’s Blog
- On Starting a Secular Meditation Practice
- Blogathon For SSA Week: Meditation and Breakfast
- Blogathon For SSA Week: Meditation, and the Difference Between Theory and Practice
- Some Thoughts on Secular Meditation and Depression/Anxiety
- Secular Meditation, and Doing One Thing at a Time
- Secular Meditation: “Energy,” and Attention/ Awareness
- Secular Meditation: “This is my job”
- Secular Meditation: I Am Who I Am
- Secular Meditation: “That’s not for me”
- Secular Meditation: Flexible Discipline, Or, On Creating a Regular Practice in an Irregular Life
- Secular Meditation: What’s the Point?
- Secular Meditation: Formal and Everyday Practice
- Secular Meditation: The Serenity to Accept What Could Be Changed, But Doesn’t Actually Need to Be
- Secular Meditation: Is This Practice Making Me “More Buddhist”? Take One Guess
Music for This Episode Courtesy of Rodrigo Rodriguez
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