Untimely meditations
One man's thoughts, observations and rants
Welcome to the personal blog of Joop Beris. I blog about a wide variety of topics, ranging from atheism to information security and lots in between. I welcome feedback on my articles but there are some guidelines. Feel free to share articles you like by using the sharing buttons but please give me credit if you want to share something. Also, check out my privacy policy and other legalese.
Below you’ll find the most recent things I’ve written. Feel free to check them out, leave a comment and share them with others who might be interested.
Latest posts
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Politically Homeless
Once upon a time, before the beard grew grey and the world went so thoroughly stupid, I considered myself securely of the left. Healthcare, education, solidarity; these weren’t luxuries but the bare minimum of a civilized society. The strongest shoulders should bear the heaviest burdens, and the weakest should not be left to rot. I…
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Reality doesn’t require Apologists
It remains a source of great amusement to me that some people style themselves “religious apologists.” Religion certainly has much to apologize for – inquisitions, crusades, genital mutilations, the ongoing sabotage of science and education – but that is not what they mean. They mean that their job is to defend religion. This is already…
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Opposing Voices Matter
On Wednesday, September 10th, political activist and Trump devotee Charlie Kirk was shot dead during one of his campus appearances. A man of the right, Kirk styled himself as an evangelist for conservatism, Christianity, the Second Amendment, and whatever the word “anti-woke” happens to mean on any given day. The assassin has not yet explained…
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How Europe is Betraying Its Own Values
A curious spectre is haunting Europe, though it is not socialism this time; it is the creeping, bureaucratic death of liberty. Across the continent, our political class is flirting with a proposal so flagrantly absurd and authoritarian that one almost wonders if they have read a history book: the mandatory scanning of every private message,…
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An end to online privacy
There’s something strange going on in Europe. While we have some of the strongest privacy laws in the world, while we fine companies for violating user rights all while considering the most draconian surveillance laws imaginable. Again, the EU is considering a mass surveillance law that, if implemented, will basically put an end to online…
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Abolish privacy
Sometimes you have one of those “What the hell did I just read?” moments. One of those moments for me was earlier this week when someone shared the manifesto “Abolish privacy” with me. People who read my blog, know that I have pretty strong opinions on privacy and I have addressed the topic here many…
Recent comments
Dear Beris Your tough stubbornness stance in your atheistic believe makes me bust in laughter, you remind me of my…
Dear Expa, Your appeal to a divinely‑instilled conscience and biblical authority rests on a series of logical shortcuts: the assumption…
Hi Beris, do you want proof that God exists?, God has instilled within us, a right and wrong consciousness, even…
I didn’t remove your comments because they contradicted me, but because they contradicted the basic requirements of honesty. You fire…
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“There are two different kinds of people in the world: those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As I surmised, no evidence or actual engaging with the arguments presented, is forthcoming. So let’s deal with that with…