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Jessica Hagy has an excellent cartoon on questioning things. I tried to post it inline here, but I got fed up trying to figure out how to do so. A couple of days ago, Alexander McCobin of Students for Liberty, applauded the inclusion of GOPround, a gay Republican group, at CPAC. He was roundly booed, then cheered. Following his remarks, Ryan Sorba gave an anti-gay rant. Both have been broadcast on national television and have received plenty of attention in the blogosphere. You can [...] I finished reading Book 1 of Plato’s Republic today. I am a little disappointed and can see why people get turned off from philosophy, as Socrates seems to engage in a lot of suspect reasoning, casting doubt on anyone’s position by playing word games that, more often than not, don’t help clarify an issue [...] “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will [...] See here. I think that number of atheists/secularists in this country has reached a critical mass. There was a time when coming out as an atheist was as or more difficult than coming out of the closet as a homosexual for a lot of people in this country. This is changing. More and more people [...] Robert Wright, the author of The Evolution of God, has a recent op-ed in the New York Times, suggesting that hardcore atheists and creationists could find some common ground. I loved this article. He offers examples of how those with a highly scientific worldview (like myself) could still potentially find room for purpose of a [...] Joel has a couple of interesting posts, one on incremental change that leads to a phase change, and another entitled “Complexity and Collapse“. In the former, he worries that a marginal change in the state of affairs may lead to a phase change. As an example of this, think of how Lehman’s bankruptcy is what [...] |
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