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Daily Archives: September 10, 2009
My Kids, My Wife, and I Have All Gotten Our Flu Shot
Have you? It’s also a good idea to ask your doctor about getting the pneumonia vaccine as well. It lasts for ten years, and it can reduce flu mortality by about 50% (since a lot of flu deaths are associated … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, flu, flu season, flu shots, H1N1, health, swine flu
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Urizen the Bearer of Circumfrences
A biographer of William Blake discusses Blake’s take on materialist reduction and the nature of mind:
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, life, materialism, mind, poetry, urizen, William Blake
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Carl Jung on the Reduction of Mind to Matter
Carl Jung, as quoted in The Conscious Universe (1997, 324-25) by Dean Radin: It is almost an absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, epistemology, life, materialism, matter, mind, paranormal
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This Sounds Right to Me
And:
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Tagged death, forgiveness, Jesus, life, love, NDEs, near-death experiences, paranormal
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Nick Pope on UFOs in Britain
Nick Pope was interviewed in August of 2009 on British television just after the British government released a new bundle of its UFO files into the public domain:
I Think They’re onto Something
People who have experienced UFO abductions, or psychedelic mushroom trips, or near death experiences (NDEs) have something to teach us non-experiencers. At least that’s what I think. What say you? Oops. This YouTube doesn’t embed. See it here.
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Does Atheism Lead to Belief in Social Darwinism?
The short answer is no. But there is also a longer answer that qualifies this “no”, and atheists and agnostics should think about that qualified answer. It is certainly true that there is no logical necessity at work that tells … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 