{Submitted by Jerry Davis, this gives us an Islamic perspective on when religion can go wrong, something that applies to Christianity or any other belief system or ideology. The first half is from the book “Romanticism” by Harun Yahya and the second…
Philosophy & Ethics
Are We Capable of Terrorism?
by Ken JP Stuczynski • • 1 Comment
The Boston bombing and now the slashers in Britain … We speak so enlightenedly when we consider what amount of hate could drive people to acts of terrorism. But we ignorantly forget to ask what drove them to so much…
Tension Builds Between Two Main Conservative Varieties
by Barry Fagin • • 0 Comments
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 6, 2010} The conservative movement, to the extent there is such a thing, moved two steps forward and one step back this week. Two steps forward because the Conservative Political Action Committee accepted a conference…
Double-Standard Racism Needs to Stop
by Ken JP Stuczynski • • 1 Comment
According to an article in USA Today, an Arizona High School decided to have a ”Redneck Day” that “encouraged classmates to dress — and spoof — accordingly”. This apparently sparked debate over “free speech, social stereotypes and good taste.” But the…
Is Science Persecuting Philosophy?
by Ken JP Stuczynski • • 3 Comments
A philosopher friend of mine sent me a most excellent article, a review of an iconoclastic book in the field of neo-Darwisnism. If the neo-Darwinist Reductionists like Richard Dawkins are truly the consensus they may fantasize themselves to be, we are in a really…
Exit Strategy Needed for Costly, Unnecessary War on Poppies
by Barry Fagin • • 1 Comment
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-29} Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy. Three DEA…
Controversy Around Cloth Symptomatic of American Problem
by Barry Fagin • • 0 Comments
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-14} The “Cloth of Turin” is once again in the news. (It’s not intellectually honest to say “Shroud of Turin”, since there is no evidence it ever held a body). Yet another claim of Cloth believers…
The Consciousness of Death and the Death of Consciousness
by Fulano de Tal • • 0 Comments
“The Magical Mystery Tour is dying…”1 Traditionally, political theories and ideologies have given primacy to the mass as a social entity, whose motives and actions are determined by economic considerations, to the detriment of the analysis of drivers of individual…
ID Means Accountability, Within Reason
by Ken JP Stuczynski • • 0 Comments
A LinkedIn discussion brought up the normalcy of citizens carrying identification. Here’s a confession: I don’t carry any. Follow @considerReconsider
Empathy and Civilization
by Ken JP Stuczynski • • 0 Comments
The following video I present to you as an interesting discussion of the neurological nature of empathy, the evolution of associative identity in culture, and the implications of a global society and all the “what’s next” questions and answers it entails. There’s…