Christianity and Nietzsche
The man who declared "God is Dead" may or may not be the most misunderstood philosopher, but he is almost certainly the most misquoted. The actual context of the phrase…
Resolutions
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one…
On Data and Science
The irrepressible Justicar recently exposed a fraudulent study published in the Journal of American Medical Associates linking Australia's 1996 gun-restriction legislation to decreases in mass shootings, in which "mass shootings"…
It’s All A Metaphor: Dreams, Memory, Language and Stories (Part I)
Why care about dreams? Dream interpretation has been a mystical art for thousands of years, and yet dreams, as they appear to us (when we remember them), look absurd. They…
Sex and the Soul
I posted this picture from Bellevue College on facebook a while back as a sarcastic example of "tax-dollars well-spent." But there are many ways that tax-dollars are misused, particularly in…
Geeks Bearing Gifts: An Argument Against Transhumanism
A friend and I were watching a TED talk on the subject of aging. The speaker was Aubrey de Grey, a British biologist who proposed a simple but fascinating new…
On Wolves, Sheep, and Sheepdogs
Fool, prate not to me about covenants! There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other through…
Victim-Blaming
After attempting to defend their poster-campaign designed to prevent rape and sexual assault, the Sussex Police Department eventually caved-in and apologized, saying they would "forshorten this particular part of the campaign." The…
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