Hi,

Welcome to the personal website of Brenda Germain! This site is a collection of my websites and interests.

As a life-long Trekkie, I've been fortunate enough to attend many Star Trek conventions in the Southeast US including the 30th anniversay event in Huntsville, AL. That is where the caraciture of me was done by a talented artist. Scanned into my computer & colorized for the web, I use it as a hint of what I look like (I should look that good! <grin>.) I started Sci-Fi Mosaic as a way to clear out my extra Star Trek collectibles and to enjoy Star Trek conventions. My favorite aspects of Star Trek is the overall secular humanist philosophy and the idea that we will eventually grow up as a species.

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."   Gene Roddenberry

I am also an atheist, finding no logic in the concept of ANY diety. I can no more believe in God or Allah than I can Zeus, Odin, Kali, Isis or any of the hundreds (if not thousands) of other deities humans have cooked up throughout history. I am pro-science and anti-superstition. Philosophically, a mix of Objectivist & Materialist (and no, not in the sense of Madonna's Material Girl,) my view is that what we know is only that which we can determine and demonstrate scientifically.

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?  Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?  Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?  Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?  Then why call him God?”    Epicurus

Politically, I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, aka a Libertarian. As long as what I do with my life doesn't harm anyone else or defraud them, keep the government's hand out of my wallet and it's nose out of my life.

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." Ayn Rand

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "   Ayn Rand