Paul the Professor

My name is Paul (they/them), and I like to think about big questions.

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

I like to talk to strangers about the way they think. It helps me to understand the way my own brain works. I may be considered “neuro-atypical” (though I’ve never been diagnosed, nor cared to be), and I just like to ask questions to better understand humans. Is that cool?

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

@hemantmehta I feel for any staffer who wants to buck the corporate culture. What sort of repercussions/retaliation might they see if they don’t go to the event (or go and wear a mask). What protects conscientious employees against that sort of thing?

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

It’s good to know that at least one student appreciates what I do

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

@hemantmehta Always appreciate your thoughts, Hemant. It’s definitely disconcerting to think of *why* certain people might so vehemently support this US President.. in Canada. The overlap in religious communities and His supporters is vexing as well.

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

@telltaleatheist Of all the tweets scrolling by me this evening.. this is the first one I choose to read the comments. That brightened my day. Thanks.

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

Can we take beliefs about equality among various cultural identities to an extreme level.. can we take it too far? What does that look like? I don’t know. It’s a new line of inquiry for me.

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

Thanks to some folks I follow.. I’m thinking about what it looks like when “The Left” gets “turned up to 11”.. you?

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

Like.. I’ll paraphrase a hypothesis as I understood it presented to me..
“There are some who want equality, and some who want to flip the script.”

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

How do you talk to your kiddos about death?

I saw a post on social lately from a friend (and not just the one), whose kiddo was perhaps expressing some anxiety over death.. asking questions about how long their parents might be with them. #parenting #death

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

@magnabosco Absolutely.. good days and bad.. strikes and gutters. Same as always, in a way.. just a different hole to get stuck in. But we can always try to help dig each other out. Right?

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

My social media experience now.. polarized between people combatting misinformation and people spreading conspiracy theories.
How did we get here?

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

Can we consider atheists a “minority”.. underrepresented in government, for example?

https://t.co/dDXOJbgkuQ

[Paul the Professor @ProfPaulCloud]

I almost always lean toward disbelief. I consider myself a skeptic. I assume that any significant claim I hear is false, until I see good compelling evidence that it’s true.

Is that fair?