I started off with a tongue-in-cheek treatment of my Humanist higher powers. I’ll be back this evening for more exploration, and, likely, skirmishes with the forces of cognitive biases, fallacies and unwarranted assumptions. 😉 Views:…
In the movie Jupiter Ascending, which I thoroughly enjoyed, though many critics panned it, there is a scene of intense conflict, in the climax, between the eponymous Jupiter and the main bad guy, whose name…
I think definition of religion, and differentiating it from faith, and that from belief, counts as exercise of Philosophy, … I think it is Ontology, but I’ll have to review the “branches” of Philosophy to…
I reminded -I assume, rather than informed- a correspondent about the use of Modus Ponens, and addressed the implied fallacy of Special Pleading. Views: 106
Surah Al-Baqarah, the second “chapter”, as the Qur’an has been arranged, has many commands or permissions to commit lethal violence, to kill those who reject the claim of Muhammad to be the “Prophet of Allah”. …
Even though I replied with some rebuttals before this, I did not give a lesson in rational discourse before being invited to a debate. While my colleague was not perfect in his knowledge and reasoning,…
My improvements, so far, are modest, adding categories for pages and posts here. I hope to have more, as the day goes on. Views: 139
The Astronomy Picture of the Day, by NASA, for today, is a real treat. The combination of animation of real photos, the simulations, and the data, though changing too fast to be able to be…
I started, yesterday, another log to track my self-management. This morning, it occurred to me to make opening that the first thing I do when arising for the last time in the morning. I’ve done…
Before getting to my notifications, I saw in my feed a post from Abdullah Sameer, whom I admire. A commenter tried shame Abdullah, and, instead of letting him have both barrels, I merely pointed out…