ANNOUNCEMENT: Opening

This is my third blog, my first two being dedicated to my personal journey of being an expatriated Dane living in Ireland, while the first follows my favourite hobby: hill running.

This Blog, I hope will have a more serious slant, and will focus on the Edge of Reason, e.g. the latest development within our scientific community.

My main focus will be one my favourite author Ervin Laszlo and his postulated "Quantum Shift" (which I aptly named the Blog after to ensure I could get a name that was not already taken!), as well as the major threat to reason in our society today: religious and other superstitous beliefs.

At the vanguard of this threat stands men such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens, as well as the active nontheists, often labelled "militant atheists" by religious apologists. A great deal of my focus here will be to simply promote their latest works, review their books, and keep people up to date with the latest developments on our continuing mission to secure a secularisation of society and attack on science that is now on-going throughout our societies.

Finally, I will also follow political developments that I find interesting or relevant, especially looking to sober commentators such as Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal.

It will take me some time to get this up and running, but if you want to debate any points made here, your comments are most welcome. The only thing I cannot guarentee is agreement.

I also owe it to readers to steal Sam Harris' usual opening apology and say that I do not mean to offend anyone's views in particular by the writings on this site. If I bring up political, anti-religious, or scientific views that you find offensive to yourself, I ask two things:

1. I am genuinely concerned about the future of the world unless we can establish a society where any kind of irrational belief (including religion) cannot be freely attacked without fear or repercussions and where people who hold this beliefs are not asked to explain them, and marginalised from positions of power because of them

2. Realise that you are not your beliefs, this is a delusion (and a self-destructive one at that). Nothing I say or do can take anything away from you, nor can it add to you. All you can say with absolute confidence is "I am", nothing more, so personal offensive is unnecessary and illogical.

So with this opening statement, welcome to the new Blog, and please allow me some time to get it up and running.