So there’s this post over at Cognitive Daily, a post which i would have titled something more like how i titled this post. But that’s OK, they’re cognitive psychologists not marketers. God knows we need more people like them. I’m going to give a brief summary of what they’re reporting on before i get to [...]
Tagged moralityA common theme in living life is the slow, dawning realization that there are 6.6 billion other people out there, and that we are almost exactly alike. It’s hard to look at humanity and see yourself as something better than an ant, never mind being the best at something. And yet, everybody thinks they’re special. [...]
In the two days since my post on the topic of Siegel’s prejudiced essay, more (plenty more) has been said. So, i’m going to try and keep this brief and just touch on one thing that i feel hasn’t been said; which is excruciatingly difficult, every single sentence that tries to contain a fact is wrong! [...]
Writing: Words and concepts take on a crystalline assembly-line structure. There is–like visual perception–a very clear, high-resolution central phrase: that is what i am thinking aloud Right Now. The words i am currently writing. Along with this there is a peripheral awareness of where i have been and where i am going: words fading to [...]
Lee Siegel from the LA Times doesn’t understand what the “latest rash” of atheists are doing. Despite that, he has written a piece in the LA Times in which he questions our techniques, language, and most importantly goals. I’m not just saying that he doesn’t understand us to be trite, or to cast facile aspersions [...]
This marks the beginning of bqdc. Before this post you’ll have to go back to my myspace blog to see the wonder of my bloggin’. I have made moderate effort to turn this into the definitive version, but it didn’t pay off and there is still plenty there that isn’t here. But, now, here we [...]
That and other wonderful quotes, along with some terrifically terrifying ideas, available here at a list of some 20 of the most bizarre scientific experiments of the last several hundred years.
It includes not only the classics (stanley milgram and stanford prison) but also some things that are truly bizarre. Go, read it, if not for [...]
If you’re wondering about this whole “end of history,” or so called “technological singularity” that some believe is probable within this century, you would do well to read this post about the quickening (it’s right underneath some weird comic) that doctor klomp hypothesized approximately 300,000 years ago. It bears remarkable resemblance to what is going [...]
Man can’t even defeat some iron chariots.
I thought he was supposed to be omnipotent?
This (and other) contradictions found within the bible available here.
Also this one starts off with a doozy: jesus has two different grandfathers! On his dad’s side!
And in case that wasn’t enough, look here.
via pharyngula.
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Which is to say, i’m starting to get wrinkles. They’re most obvious when i’m smiling, which means, i think, that they’re laugh lines?
Anyway, i’m going to look so cool when i’m 60 it’s just not even funny.
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