It’s just the question mark I have to bear 2 Aug 200922 Jun 2018 We agnostics do this every Spring solstice equinox. Below the fold, from the now-defunct and much missed Chaser’s War on Everything, how far those who believe the Bible is literally true will go. NSFW language… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hH1H5qK08&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Epistemology Humor Religion
Epistemology Information is the new Aristotelianism (and Dawkins is a hylomorphist) 27 Apr 201428 Apr 2014 In seeking tales and informations [Henry VIII, Act V, scene 3] For some time now* I have had problems with the notion of information. Not, please note, with this or that piece of information, but with the notion itself, especially in the natural sciences. In this age of computers and internets,… Read More
Humor Jon Stewart is the New Socrates 23 Oct 2007 According to a book mentioned by Greg Dahlman at blog.bioethics.net. He notes that this makes Stephen Colbert Plato. I think it makes Hilary Clinton Aristotle, and Richard Dawkins Epicurus, although the sequence is a bit messed up. Read More
Humor Buffy is my personal saviour 28 Oct 2009 As always, the Onion has the scoop. I really like this new religion of Fictionology. One gets to choose a fictional character as your messiah, deity or general moral teacher. Who better than Buffy? Look good, kick evil doers, and have time for a social life. “Unlike Scientology, which is… Read More
The bit that goes something like this hit me right in the funny plexus: “Is the bit about the homosexuals for now or just that time? How can you tell, is there an asterisk next to it?”
I knew your seasons were off down there, but the spring solstice is something I’d like to see, agnostics or no.