- "Intellectual freedom" is a phrase I value, and I get
worried when I don't hear it enough. I value today's satirists
-- Steven Colbert, John Stewart, and Bill Maher. They often deliver
more accurate news than the "cable news" and network news
operations they make fun of.
- I am retired from public television engineering. I maintained
transmitters for Maryland Public Broadcasting.
- I divide my time among writing, geneaogical research, Mensa, local freethought groups, and ham radio with call letters KE3Y. *SSTV monitor
currently inoperative* I monitor 7173 kHz for slow scan TV using
EasyPal software and post the received files here at www.intelec.us/ham/index.htm.
I beacon on the APRS 2-meter net at 144.390 MHz. I make notes on
science, human behavior, politics, and philosophy -- for those eventual
books to be published.
I live just outside and north of the agreeable city of Huntsville,
Alabama with my talented wife, a retired engineer and part time
counselor and craftsperson.
P.O. Box 485, Meridianville, AL 35759.
Email me
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Travis Hardin's Personal Page
"I believe in the religion of reason - the gospel of this
world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of
intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from
superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces
of nature to feed and clothe the world." -- Robert G. Ingersoll --
1833 - 1899
On metaphysics:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away."
-- Phillip K. Dick
On skepticism:
I wish to propose for the reader’s favourable consideration a
doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive.
The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a
proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it
true.”
(From “Introduction: On the Value of Scepticism”,
Sceptical Essays)
-- Bertrand Russell
On credulity:
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an
invisible man living in the sky who watches every thing you do, every
minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of 10 special
things that he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10
things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and
torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn
and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time.
But he loves you."
-- Comedian George Carlin, from his HBO special "You Are All
Diseased"
Travis and Louise at Cozumel pier January 2005
Louise at a Cancun beach January 2005
Travis, Louise, and sister-in-law Jo Hardin at Cave Spring, Georgia
September 2010.
Travis with friend walking toward Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore
Sanity Oct 30, 2010.
Back home from rally Oct 31, 2010. Travis Hardin, Christie Swords, Doug
Roth. Photo by Louise. |
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Travis L. Hardin
Last revised: 3 Jul 2011
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