From Allusions to Illusions
The second breakthrough that occurred to me is that not all Sunday morning rituals happen in religious space. I saw one 70-year old man who rode into the bookstore parking lot on his bicycle. He had a fancy white hat and wore a pair of white shorts, a white shirt and running shoes. He bought […]
“Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. “
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
It occurs to me that I’ve been working at my new job for just about a week now and haven’t mentioned it. My mother had my sister call ask how it was going. I left messages with brief answers.
It seems like a good place, it’ll take me a while to get my bearings, […]
I don’t have much time but it is the Fourth of July and one of the worst violators of my ban on blind faith. Blind patriotism is just a version of faith. It is the blind belief that your country is somehow superhuman. Now I’m not saying we should discount the advantages […]
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