Tom Whyman

Dec 11, 2024 | bworldonline.com | Tom Whyman

I have a vivid memory of the moment I realized Santa didn’t exist. I was around six years old, it was the height of summer, and I was sitting on the step outside our back door, thinking about God. The existence of God, back then, was something that annoyed me: it meant that every Sunday, we had to go to church. Then I realized: there isn’t actually any evidence God exists. I only think God exists, because this is something people have told me.

Dec 6, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Tom Whyman

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Dec 6, 2024 | theconversation.com | Tom Whyman

I have a vivid memory of the moment I realised Santa didn’t exist. I was around six years old, it was the height of summer, and I was sitting on the step outside our back door, thinking about God. The existence of God, back then, was something that annoyed me: it meant that every Sunday, we had to go to church. Then I realised: there isn’t actually any evidence God exists. I only think God exists, because this is something people have told me.

Dec 2, 2024 | redpepper.org.uk | Tom Whyman

I joined Twitter in December 2010, at the height of the student fees protests. After a friend had some moderately incendiary tweets shared by a Guardian liveblog (or something like that), I wanted in on the action. As an undergraduate, my friends and I used to compete to get the stupidest letters printed in the student newspaper, and the Twitter game just seemed like an extension of that: winning would mean shouting something loud enough to catch the attention of the press.

Aug 11, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Tom Whyman

Laurence Olivier as Oedipus, in the dressing room before a performance of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, 1946 Credit: Popperfoto/Getty We all know, or think we know, the story: man inadvertently murders father; man inadvertently marries mother; man eventually discovers the truth; man gouges out own eyes. It is expressive of the tragic Greek world view: ­Oedipus is a good man; he solves the Sphinx’s riddle, he saves the city of Thebes. But he has ­always been fated to do something terr­ible, and he...