I know some of you won’t like this but I was thinking recently if there weren’t some advantages of more socialist countries that we tend to ignore here. From what I understand, people in Britain and France do not nearly have the standard of living we do–they have less toys and money and big cars [...]
Hopefully this will be a short post. I’ve been thinking about the people i know who are politically very liberal or very conservative and it struck me recently that in many ways they are the same. They both share the same strengths and the same flaws. For example, take an extreme liberal. Liberals generally believe [...]
OK, lets say for the sake of argument, global warming is completely made up, that somehow, scientists, governments and media all over the world, got together in a secret cabal and created a grand conspiracy to destroy their own economies and industries while laughing maniacally… Does that mean we should keep polluting and consuming fossil [...]
While perusing Border’s Bookstore, I found a copy of “We are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.” by John Derbyshire. Intrigued, I picked it up and skimmed a few random pages of the book. In the passages I read Derbyshire is talking about problems in the current public school system. He bemoans the loss of the male [...]
Right now, the light from the computer screen you’re reading is bombarding the retina in your eyes. The patterns of light are registered by your nerves and brain and translated into words and concepts. The concepts make an imprint on your brain that you will apparently remember even when you’re not consciously aware of it. [...]
What is the difference between Morals and Values? Are morals relative or absolute?
This is just a quick post. For many years now, I have become increasingly skeptical of the idea of an immortal soul. I think there is a lot of evidence to suggest that we do not have souls or spirits in the traditional sense. This doesn’t mean that there’s no God, only that we are [...]
One of Facebook’s many survey’s declared me to be almost directly in the middle of the politically spectrum. I’m almost directly in the middle with a slight tilt towards the left. As someone who practices Zen Buddhism, I feel this is almost exactly where I should be. After all, the Buddha taught “the middle way”–not [...]
