I hear talk of a return to stoicism among a few: Svend Brinkmann’s Stand Firm or Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. There are many others. And I too believe there could be something healthy in this return. My…
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I have before been called selfish. And I can neither agree nor disagree to this, as I’m not sure that I understand their meaning. I do however see a type of selfishness in the world. I have heard, “Republicans vote against their interest.” And if…
If the southern Americans want to teach their children creation as part of a public school curriculum, then let them. I say this and have reflected on the revulsion surrounding this idea—this reaction is a curiosity for me. Consider urban decay: while I enjoy subjecting…
Today celebrity atheists are fighting an easy battle by taking up factual discourse to combat Biblical rhetoric. But the reasonable threat to the fandom of science is not the religious, but post-modernism. And what have these celebrities to say here? Consider if another had said,…