For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
This short lesson from logic can save us a bundle of folly and strife. If we all understood it, it could even save the world, since among the biggest threats we face is ideologies gone wild, unalterable and armed to the teeth. It’s about how people of any faith or belief system get sloppy and […]
I like the way the Calvinist religion has boiled its doctrine down to a simple acronym: TULIP, and wanted to make an acronym not for my atheist doctrine, but one that lays out the fundamental question I think is at the heart of the conflict between of us over what to believe and how to […]
Guns are so negative. So are bombs. So is saying no, stop, halt, don’t go there, shut up, be quiet, go away. So are walls, roadblocks–constraints of any kind. I don’t mean they’re bad or wrong necessarily. They’re negative in that they negate. They stop, end or reverse things. We all know that two wrongs […]
My first Burning Man was eight years ago. I arrived at the gate late on the second night with my then-girlfriend. We were ready for almost anything, but not for the manic clown-police at the entrance gate who, with a deft hand and an inch-wide white marker drew a giant ejaculating penis on our windshield […]
Myth 1. Love is connecting: We generally think of love as analogous to a chemical or magnetic bond. It’s not, and for reasons that give us a window into the fundamental difference between living and non-living systems. Living systems do active, dedicated, ongoing work striving to maintain whatever they depend upon. Non-livings like chemicals or […]
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