Facebook

Twitter

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Caught in the Web of @theist Dating



The Secular Spectrum: Caught in the Web of @theist Dating

When I entered the Jewish dating scene, I was thinking that Jews would be more likely to share some of my personal attributes, like humor and liberalism, But I suppose I was also trying to connect to a culture I had only tenuous ties to.

I was sadly mistaken.

In fact, some Jews denied that I even belonged in the "club" because I didn't practice Judaism. There were a number of guys I could tell were interested in me, but were put off by my preemptive announcement of my atheism.

I was trying to screen out guys who would be put off by my beliefs.

It worked all too well.


2 comments:

  1. I need this article to complete my assignment in the college, and it has same topic with your article. Thanks, great share, dating sites uk free

    ReplyDelete
  2. Google is such a boon for researchers, isn't it? I'm a major researcher via Google myself. I'm so glad my post for the Secular Spectrum was so useful to you!

    PS: I have a good friend in the UK named John Henry Crocker. This is extremely unlikely, but is he any relation?

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for your comment!

Contact me!

Name

Email *

Message *

Coma Girl

Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.