I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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There's been a lot of rewriting of what deism really is over the last decade so that Libertarians like Ron Paul can claim it as their own without crawling too far away from the Republican Party. (Much like Libertarianism itself has been rewritten.)
In my book, if you want to know Deism get to know Voltaire.
I've been on the fence of atheism and deism since the early-to-mid-90's. Trust me here, I know what I'm talking about.
Plus one on the nifty and fairly thorough chart though.
ETA: The tag-line that accompanied real Deism back in the day was: "The Scientists Religion". Thus the obvious need for a modern rewrite of its definition and roots.