Category Archives: Rant
Community, unbelief, and the rise of secularism
One of the things that losing full use of a limb causes, is that everything takes four times as long as it used to. So I haven’t blogged due to my being very busy, tired, or both. Sorry. I promised … Continue reading
Filed under Creationism and Intelligent Design, General Science, Philosophy, Rant, Religion
Dark days
In case you didn’t notice, just recently a number of web giants, as well as innumerable other websites, went “dark” in protest against the attempts to control the internet by the US government. But the US isn’t the first nation … Continue reading
Prescriptions for atheists
Jeez. You go away for a few days, to the beach and countryside, and come back to find that progress has been made in philosophy; in particular regarding the right view to hold about religion and the religious. The story … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Humor, Logic and philosophy, Philosophy, Rant, Religion
Goodbye freedom
Ten years ago tomorrow tonight I was watching an episode of West Wing, and, as I do, channel surfing during the ads. One channel showed a fire in the World Trade Centre, which less than a month earlier I had … Continue reading
An education reform
You, like me, are most likely sick to the back teeth of education reforms. Every few years along comes another proposal to “fix” the education system, which everyone who has ever had any contact with it knows is broken. Each … Continue reading
My feet, my neck, my head
No, this isn’t a list of my better features or my autapomorphies. It is a list of the things that really, really, hurt. For those who do not know, I am without employment, and so I have taken up a … Continue reading
Religions, cults and wacos
Yes, I’m aware that it’s spelled “wacko” but when people start talking about cults, they often have in mind the insanity that led to the Waco compound disaster. The “Church” of Scientology has used a SLAPP suit to try to … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Pop culture, Rant, Religion, Sermon, Social evolution
On the moral purity of skeptics and fallacies
The recent furore, called #elevatorgate on Twitter, about what Richard Dawkins said in response to complaints of sexism amongst atheists, has hit Gawker, who finish with the line: “That’s skeptics. Rational about everything except themselves, self-preservation, and manners.” Now without … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Religion
