Port Apathy

Waves of Enthusiasim

welcome

Port Apathy is where the ambassadors of the Enthusiastic Ocean migrate through in order to get to the Indifferent Content. Watch out for the tide of the Enthusiastic Ocean...

Emotion and literature

I just watched the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine epsisode ‘Rejoined’.  Something struck.  Several things at once.  I felt a real connection to this story line.  Possibly in part because my girlfriend and I broke up, but also because the story was about one basic emotion: love. Good literature is the same regardless of what [...]

Defining Spirituality

Listening to a recent Non-Prophets Radio episode (8.12) I heard an interesting definition of ‘spirituality’. A listener wrote in saying that in their health textbook they read the following definition of spiritual health: How individuals identify their own basic purpose in life, learn how to experience love, joy, peace and fulfillment, and help themselves and [...]

Religious Freedom and Pay Cheques

Back in February of 2000 a doctor began refusing birth control pills to his patients.[1]  When patients complained of him forcing his morality on them he said “if a Christian physician must forsake his religious beliefs to maintain his medical license, we cannot delude ourselves to believe we live in a free country.”[2]  Of course, [...]