Review of Daniel Dennet’s Book

A nice evisceration of Daniel Dennet's From Bacteria to Bach and Back.  Beloved by atheists everywhere, he has always been intellectually dishonest about the criticisms of his work or other work that challenges his.  The first step of the dishonest debater is to intentionally misunderstand your position. The Illusionist

The Rule of Law is Dead

There are now so many arbitrary decisions by the Supreme Court with no basis in the Constitution, arbitrary and ambiguous laws passed by Congress, laws are arbitrarily enforced by the Executive branch, and thousands of lines of politically motivated regulation, who among us can abide by, respect or follow the law anymore? There is so …

Whither China

So the Chinese are busy buying industrial robots.  None of which will eliminate their dangerous levels of debt, there demographic decline or the their economic asset bubbles.  There really isn't a partially controllable economy.  We fool ourselves when we think we can control economies or "design" our future.

Brief Contemplation on the Nature of Evil

My years while limited have seen it's share of evil both face to face and from a far.  When people think of evil they tend to think of dramatic behaviour, mass murders, ruthless killers and the like.  But evil while it can be dramatic also occurs in ordinary ways.  There is mundane evil, whose destructiveness …

Good Friday: Lamb of God Pure and Holy

Lamb of God, pure and holy, Who on the cross didst suffer, Ever patient and lowly, Thyself to scorn didst offer, All sins Thou borest for us, Else had despair reigned o'er us: Have mercy on us, O Jesus! O Jesus! -public domain

Logical Substitutions Relationship Edition

Which quote below is a myth busting reasoned defense and which one is a hideous attempt to normalize the profane and immoral. "But above all, polyamory is less about sex specifically but rather pursuing relationships with multiple partners. While there's no one way to be polyamorous, as the Atlantic points out, these relationships are often …

Lacking a Basic Ability to Reason

If this article is representative of our culture's ability to draw distinctions, western civilization is finished.  It is titled, We Asked Men to Draw Vaginas to Prove an Important Point.  You can tell from the title alone you are not reading the work of a great intellect. In any case, what is the point she is …

Merry Christmas

Axioms: How many do you believe?

How many people have thought through their most basic beliefs?  Beliefs so obvious that you never bother to think about them and simply reason from them as a base.  In fact rejecting them places you in an odd position leading to self-refutation, a house collapsing in on itself from internal weakness.  Let's look at just …

Love and Gay Men

There is an article on why gay men don't believe in love.  He lists a variety reasons, to wit, "We Still Don't Understand 'Happily Ever After'", "We Don't Have As Many Role Models" etc. There is one reason missing, an alternate explanation, which is just as likely.  Because you are both the same sex, you …