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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Mental Health Break
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Tagged 1970s, caring, elton john, humanity, life, love, mental health break, music
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I Got My Swine Flu Shot Today (and Albert Camus Would Have Gotten His Swine Flu Shot Too)
“No man is an island. Each is a part of the main.” This afternoon my wife, my three and five year old daughters, and I all went to the doctor to get our swine flu shots. We got our regular flu … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, existentialism, fitness, flu season, H1N1, health, nutrition, philosophy, swine flu, The Plague, viruses, winter
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“I dislike being a foot soldier”: Freddie the Atheist on the Awful Quiet of Actual Atheism
Freddie, at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, is not a movement New Atheist. He’s just an atheist. And he likes it that way: [T]here is an elementary consonance between evangelist religion and evangelist antitheism that I find inarguable, that both insist … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Buddhism, Camus, emptiness, faitheism, jerry coyne, movement atheism, new atheist
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Daniel Dennett: the Vanquisher of “Deepity” Religion—and Poetry?
The Daniel Dennett deepity slide that Jerry Coyne took a picture of here is one that I wrote into my notebook (I was at the same conference). A deepity, according to Dennett, “is a proposition that seems to be profound … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, language, philosophy, physics, poems, poetry, psychology, the ontological mystery
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Whoa Mule, Whoa!
I ain’t got time to kiss you now, the mule is run away! According to the video poster at YouTube, this song was played “under the trees next to the Conestoga river. Lancaster County Park PA. August 2 2008.” Nicely … Continue reading
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Tagged banjos, bluegrass, happiness, life, mules, music, Pennsylvania
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The New Prometheuses? Are Physicists on the Verge of Stealing the Secrets of the “God Particle” (the Higgs Boson’s Mass) from Heaven?
Stealing fire from heaven. The most important physics experiment in the history of, well, all of history, is slated to take place over the late winter of 2009 and the first few months of 2010. This is when the CERN particle … Continue reading
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Tagged God, god particle, hadron collider, higgs bozon, physics, Prometheus, science, the big bang, the emperor has no clothes
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Expert Physicists Say that the Large Hadron Collider is Safe and Won’t Create a Black Hole That Will Swallow the Earth. So How Come Conservatives Aren’t Freaked about This?
Most American conservatives (presumably) follow the expert advice of their family physicians when they are told that, say, they need to see a specialist with regard to a symptom, or need surgery. And they might well go under the knife … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Ayn Rand, black holes, conservatism, doubt, evolution, hadron collider, Republican party, rush limbaugh, skepticism
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Contingency for Beginners
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Tagged chance, contingency, life, talking heads, the butterfly effect
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Mental Health Break
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Tagged david bowie, fame, mental health break, music, psychology
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Is the Higgs Boson (the So-Called ‘God Particle’) the Creator and Destroyer of Worlds?
The CERN Hadron Collider may soon find out, and Jared Burton directed me to an interesting article about it. (And David Bowie may have gotten there first.) But in any case, according to the New York Times yesterday, two prominent … Continue reading
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Tagged black holes, end of the world, God, god particle, hadron collider, mass, physics, quantum physics, science
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Alien Abductions, Epistemology, and Eyewitness Testimony
If you believe in, say, the resurrection of Jesus or the historic existence of Cleopatra based on eyewitness testimony, why don’t you believe what these apparently sincere folks are saying as well? What makes some forms of eyewitness testimony more credible … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, belief, Christianity, epistemology, eyewitness testimony, God, Jesus, law, psychology, the resurrection, witnessing
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UFO Helium Balloon Boy Found Alive!
This in the New York Times about a half-hour ago: The 6-year boy, Falcon Heene, was just found alive, according to reporter Dan Frosch, who is at the boy’s house in Fort Collins, Colo. The Larimer County Sheriff, Jim Alderden, … Continue reading
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Tagged balloon boy, death, helium, life, parenting, UFO sightings, UFOs, weird things
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Teenage Mutant Nietzsche Turtles
In our future, at least according to this video (see the 4:00 minute mark):
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Tagged atheism, atheist, comedy, eugenics, evolution, genetics, mutations, Nietzsche, philosophy, technology, the future
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Unweaving Richard Dawkins’s Promissory Atheist Rainbow
In the preface to Richard Dawkins’s book, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998, xi), he writes: I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, creation, evolution, God, philosophy, religion, science, the problem of suffering
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