Terahertz

Yesterday was a pretty good day. It started rough with my mind being off for the entire first talk, which is okay, because the talk was by a pseudo-archaeologist who continually used the word “paradigm” and talked about how the “establishments” was keeping him down.

Most of the talks seemed to run a bit long, which cut some of the discussions off. There were still interesting talks on art and science and philosophy later. I hadn’t considered the morality argument that we must have a secular moral standard to choose whether God or Satan is more moral than the other.

I also discovered that Christopher DiCarlo is one of the best speakers on the Canadian roster. We’re definitely going to try to get him out to Vancouver soon.

After the conference events I got to have dinner with DiCarlo and CFI Transnational president Ron Lindsay, which was a good experience. After which we caught the tail end of the skeptics magic show.

We then drank a bunch of beers and gossiped before I headed back to my hostel.

Unfortunately I wasn’t alone last night as a gentlemen occupied the top bunk when I got back to the hostel. He also smelled and snored. But he did leave for a flight at 4am so I did get some sleep to myself.

This morning I got pancakes for free and walked along Yonge Street before dropping in for the end of the Canadian Secular Alliance meeting. I just finished lunch and now this afternoon promises to be interesting with the CFI Annual General Meeting and Board Meeting.

My flight out is tomorrow morning at 7am and lands at 9am, so I may be able to make my 10:30 am class.