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Darwin, Lucretius, and End Times Hysteria
Regarding doomsday today, December 21, 2012, the calamity has already arrived: the comet hit in 1859 when Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. I’m referring, of course, to the death of God. Since the Italian Renaissance and Anglo-French Enlightenment, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, atheism, December 2012, End Times, lucretius, Nietzsche, prophecy, stephen greenblatt, the Bible
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Before You Do Something Stupid
It’s December 20, 2012, and regarding the Mayan calendar Doomsday date tomorrow, the Los Angeles Times reports the following: NASA says, “the world will not end in 2012.” “Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse, armageddon, critical thinking, End Times, failed prophecy, life, mark of the beast, Mayan calendar, prophecy
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Thinking and Apocalypse: Heuristic (Shorthand) Thinking vs. Critical Thinking. Should We Be Optimistic About Our Future?
Given the paucity of sustained critical thinking in our culture, science writer K. C. Cole reflects on our prospects for collective survival in a recent (and I think important) review at the Los Angeles Review of Books: No one in … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, atheism, critical thinking, Nietzsche, Oedipus, optimism, reason, science, the future
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Thanks, Steve Jobs! If the Global Cellular Network Collapses This Decade It May Not Be Because of Osama bin Laden
The Washington Post reports, via Jim Giles of New Scientist, that a catastrophic collapse of the globe’s cellular networks is a real possibility over the next decade: [S]ome kind of collapse in cellular networks in the near future is a real … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 2013, 21st century, apocalypse, femtocells, globalism, osama bin laden, science, steve jobs, technology
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My Predictions for the Human Future
My daughters are four and six, and barring a severe catastrophe (personal or civilizational), my guess is that they’ll have lifespans that might double that of the average person living today. By the time they hit about the age of 50 (around … Continue reading
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Tagged America, apocalypse, life, matt ridley, optimism, robert wright, the antichrist, The Book of Revelation, the environment, the future, the world
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Apocalypse Now?: North Korea, a nuclear power, threatens full-scale war with South Korea
And this chilling sentence appeared in the New York Times story on the crisis: The motivations, health and even state of mind of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, remained cloaked in mystery. Got it? We don’t know whether, exactly, Kim … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Communism, cults, foreign policy, Jim Jones, kim jong-il, korea, north korea, oh shit, Politics, south korea, totalitarianism
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12 reasons that people are attracted to End Times woo
About half of all Americans believe that, within the next generation or so, humanity will come under the domination of an evil global ruler, experience the apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation, and witness the second coming of Christ. But why do they think this? … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, America, antichrist, apocalypse, apologetics, atheism, atheist, bible prophecy, Book of Revelation, End Times, fundamentalism, the Bible
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Weight Watchers Meets the Book of Revelation—and Denis Dutton
In the New York Times today, philosopher Denis Dutton meditates on our cultural fondness for the apocalyptic: We wallow in the idea that one day everything might change in, as St. Paul put it, the “twinkling of an eye” — … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Calvinism, conspiracy theories, guilt, last days, modernism, philosophy, psychology, Revelation, The Book of Revelation, weight watchers
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A Metaphor for Global Warming Hysteria—or the Real World Failure of Copenhagen?
My kids think this iCarly mini-disaster movie trailer is funny, but with Copenhagen’s global climate talks failing this weekend, it seems to have an unpleasant saliency. Silly climate scientists! Prophets of doom and gloom! They sure are funny, aren’t they? Aren’t they?
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Tagged apocalypse, climate science, disaster films, ecology, environmentalism, global warming, iCarly, prophecies, science, weather
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The CERN Large Hadron Collider: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?
The New York Times today provides an interesting “history-in-a-nutshell” perspective on the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC): Particle colliders get their magic from Einstein’s equation of mass and energy. The more energy that these machines can pack into their little … Continue reading
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Tagged alan watts, apocalypse, einstein, higgs boson, history, large hadron collider, meaning, physics, reason, science, Shakespeare
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Gore Vidal on the Romans: “They don’t care if you live or die. They’re like cats.”
Gore Vidal makes a cameo appearance in Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972):
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Tagged Al Gore, apocalypse, End Times, gore vidal, Italy, literature, romans, Rome, the beast, the end of the world, writers, writing
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In November of 2009, the CERN Large Hadron Collider Will Begin the Process of Replicating the First Billionth of a Second After the Big Bang
Yes, you read that right. Billionth of a second. The European particle collider will work, under controlled conditions, with energies literally billions of times hotter than the sun’s core, and most physicists think that the collider, at its highest speeds, may even generate … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Big Bang, black holes, Brian Cox, brian green, carl sagan, cern, life, physics, science
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Swine Flu and Albert Camus: What You Should Do to Protect Not Just Yourself, But Others
Obsidian Wings recently invited a guest blog post on swine flu, co-written by an immunologist and bioethicist. The advice that they offered on swine flu amounted to a list of Albert Camus-like existential responsibilities that we have to one another in … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apocalypse, Camus, end of the world, existentialism, flu, pandemic, philosophy, religion, swine flu, The Plague
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“Waiting for God”: A Short YouTube Video by Santi Tafarella
Today I made my first foray onto YouTube by setting up an account at XtraNormal.com. XtraNormal.com is a FREE animated video production site where you can mash together scene and character templates to create stories. You can then download them to YouTube. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, drama, eschatology, Freud, Jesus, life, philosophy, psychology, religion, the second coming, theater, waiting for godot
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Are We Living in Apocalyptic Economic and Foreign Policy Times? And Where There Are HAPPY FACES Is This Disjuncture Part of the Horror?
David Sirota of Salon.com thinks so: It’s not just the economic turbulence or the corruption that evokes this new darkness — both have been around for a while. It’s the “I feel fine” obliviousness of R.E.M.’s cataclysmic ballad — the … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, apocalyptic literature, armageddon, economics, foreign policy, marlon brando, Politics, religion, the horror, wall street
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