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Mental Health Break
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45 Second Virtual Alien Vacation: Hanging with UFOs at Scenic Tejon Ranch!
Tejon Ranch (in Southern California) is in the Tehachipi Mountain area about an hour from where I live. Late last year, it was designated a 600 square mile conservation area. Oh, and UFOlogists claim that a secret government UFO facility (akin to Area … Continue reading
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Tagged abduction narratives, fly away, tejon ranch, trip, trippy, UFO sightings, UFOs, vacation
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If You’re a Confidence Atheist or a Confidence Theist, You’re More Likely to Be Happier Than a Confused Agnostic Like Me
So suggests a new study. Fine, but that doesn’t mean that you’re right. Via Steel Phoenix, a nice retort from George Bernard Shaw: “The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, george bernard shaw, happiness, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, religion, social psychology, theism
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Is Argument an Act of Self Control?
Are those who council calm in argument in some sense complicitous in evil? Whence passion in debate? William Buckley (counseling calm) and Noam Chomsky (affirming passion) discuss the Vietnam War. I can’t help but hear resonances in our contemporary debates … Continue reading
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Why Do We Have Space Diets, But Not Time Diets?
Nearly everybody, it seems, wants to take up less space in the universe (that is, be skinny), but almost nobody wants to take up less time in the universe (that is, die soon). But both space and time are just dimensions, … Continue reading
