If religion was purely a matter of individual private belief it could be just dumped in with all the other irrational thought patterns that so bedevil Homo sapiens (and presumably sapiens ancestors, though the other apes seem to be purely rational), a curiosity for psychological investigation perhaps. The problem is that one essential part of […]
Harder than the common cold Read More »
If Sunday is the day of rest why do so many people spend it talking to an imaginary friend, worrying about an imaginary afterlife, and whipping themselves into a frenzy thinking of someone, somewhere, is having fun?
The crowd of people that surround you at school – friends, enemies, classmates, teachers – who once you knew so well, or thought you did anyway. What happened to them over the next sixty years?
The old schoolyard Read More »
Life is full of incidents and accidents, and the occasional cunning plan gone horribly wrong.
When I was young I couldn’t imagine being 70. Now I am in my seventies I can’t imagine being any other age.
Three score years. And ten. Read More »
Throughout history, and over most of the world, societies have been divided into left and right, poor and rich, workers and bosses, globalists and nationalists, humanists and racists, atheists and the religious, thinkers and followers, socialists and fascists. The important thing for all of us is to decide early what side we are on.
All over the universe, planets capable of supporting life will have evolved intelligent organisms. All over the universe those organisms will have invented systems of living that enable a small number of them to gain a very large share of the resources of the planet. All over the universe those systems will develop patterns of
And we are well on our way Read More »
I’ve always found it useful, in evaluating politicians, male and female, to see if I can picture them wearing a Nazi SS uniform.
Is there a happy place between being too original and being not original enough?
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If you were born in a different time, a different place, would you be a different you?
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