I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Proving the point
July 21, 2008
So Vox Day posted a link to an online autism test and challenged his readers to take it, reporting their results in the comments of the post and specifying their religious stange in the vaguest categories possible: theist, atheist, or agnostic. Fully aware that web-based surveys are essentially meaningless, Vox nevertheless had some fun with the idea, and offered it as a way to test his theory that atheism is closely associated with what he has likened to a kind of “social autism” — this based on the fact that many adamant atheists seem to display the same lack of social graces that people with syndrome and/or autism often display.
The results that came back were a mixed bag, with both atheists and theists scoring in the lows and highs. But whereas the majority of theists seem to have had no problem following the directions (report your score, report your religious stance, and then shut up), many of the atheist respondents gave their scores and followed them up with long-winded explanations questioning the validity of the study, the effectiveness of Vox’s methods, his honesty, and so on and so forth.
Which, I think, may just have inadvertently proved Vox’s point.
Way to go, O champions of reason!
