Not the Same … More Alike than Different
Someone opined on a radio show that something or other isn’t going to happen “…until white people realize that black people aren’t the same as white people.” Well, duh. “White” people aren’t even the same…
Category: Science
Science is a subset of Philosophy, although some people deny that. The only difference between Science and the rest of Philosophy, really, is the rigor required. It also depends on assumptions developed in the practice of other branches of Philosophy.
The Only Accessible Absolute
Watching a Youtube video that mentioned the Milankovitch cycles got me thinking about absolute coordinates of space, which may exist, but which we can never know, which we can never access, much like time. There…
Apparent Darkness
Given how many gazillions of stars there are, in every direction one may look, it’s not irrational to wonder why the night environment is dark. The conundrum may seem worse if one is familiar with…
Essay on Astrotheology
I am in controversy, at worst, and debate, at best, with people in a closed group over a number of issues. [I’m sure that surprises no one. 😉 ] One of the topics under ……
Refutation of an Apology for a Cosmological Claim in the Qur’an
I was challenged by a correspondent, “Does this website make any sense to you?” I interpret her question to be about the webpage, authored by Mohammad Awais Tahir, not the whole website. I began to…
My History of Glossolalia (“Speaking in Tongues”)
I’ll preface it with a description of a practice I developed while playing D&D, 1st edition, in my youth -I know: I’m “dating” myself 　 – in which I was enhancing the credibility of non-human…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-11-19
I thought I had posted yesterday about my engagement with Frank, in which I pointed out how he started out in a post on a path of Truth, but veered off in fallacious thinking with…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-10-2
My first exercise of Philosophy on Facebook was to engage with a friend about issues impinging upon my Modus Tollens argument that a god does not exist. In PM, I pointed out an error in…
God/Magical Thinking vs. Scientific Humanism: My Childhood Indoctrination
I often challenge holders of mythical religious beliefs as to the true basis for their beliefs, trying to get them to see that the foundation for them is the childhood indoctrination, the cultural conditioning, to…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-9-22
I start with commenting on an theo-ontological challenge, laying out my Theory of Anthropogenic Theology (which hasn’t originated with me, though the name might have, and this particular synthesis has). In a discussion of a…