Daily Archives: March 14, 2009

What Would It Take to Turn Me Atheist?

As an agnostic, here’s my answer: An ability to transcend the cosmos and see all of it whole. Obviously, I am embedded in the system that I am trying to describe (as are we all) and so I am reluctant … Continue reading

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The Twitter Slayers?: Will E-Readers and Russell Wilcox’s “E Ink” Save Us From the Dumbing-Down of Civilization?

Electronic media seems to be killing the book business and long-form journalism. Enter Russell Wilcox, CEO of E Ink. He is, according to Fortune magazine, perhaps the savior of the world (Jesus, step aside please). Wilcox is on a mission to literally rescue … Continue reading

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Does Meaning Reside in Facts—or Our Descriptions of Those Facts?

I bet you can guess my vote. I think that our languages never perfectly correspond with the world “as it is” and so we derive our meanings from our eccentric descriptions of “the facts.” Here’s an example. Since the publication … Continue reading

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Has It Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong?

All atheists assert, so far as I can tell, that MATTER PRECEEDS MIND. But I think it is tricky to assert that if one begins all one’s reasoning on the presumption that matter preceeds the existence of mind, that one … Continue reading

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What I Mean When I Say I’m an Agnostic (and Not an Atheist or Theist)

I think that my agnosticism extends, when it really comes down to it, to keeping an open mind to the possibility that MIND (or telos) somehow preceeds MATTER in some fashion—or even that there might be something recognizably human at the end of … Continue reading

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