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 [...]
a note to readers: the following is an argument in favor of objective reality that I wrote for my friend Kim, who took an opposite position. If you agree or disagree with me please feel free to criticize any particular point, I doubt anybody cares enought to take the necessary several hours to respond to [...]
