The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings
Sic et Non, Souls and Pre-existence – I’m in the middle of reading Plato’s Phaedo, and the soul’s pre-existence was forefront. Instead of bumbling through a post about it, JT’s writing is much better.
A classic formula for pi has been discovered hidden in hydrogen atoms – Patterns. Someday I’d like to read a popular science article that doesn’t use the word “quantum.”
One Allegiance, Indivisible – “We cannot sustain a parceling up of our persons into the domain of Caesar and the domain of God – a house divided cannot stand. Either Caesar is Lord or Jesus is.”
Don’t Ask An Astrophysicist About Economics – “[Neil deGrasse Tyson] fell into the common trap of assuming just because he can’t imagine a return on investment one must not exist. Successful entrepreneurs are successful because they realized a return on an investment others did not.”
10 Spiritual Gems From The Little Known Scottish Mystic Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien’s Guru
The Pilgrims’ Experiment with Communism Before the Second Thanksgiving – tl;dr version: people died when they didn’t have to.
The economic fallacies of Black Friday: 2015 Edition
You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves – Guy is some kind of marketing guru, aka: a huckster (I mean, look at his domain name), and the bookshelves belong to others of his ilk. This article was labeled as the “smartest” people’s bookshelves, not “thought leaders” as the title suggests. I’m not sure which one is worse.
How to Ruin Your Band Name – This rules out every band name. Sorry, guys. At least my favorite band name, Breather Resist, passes all of these tests.
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Hm. On your second link, the problem I see is the presumed definition of “existence” in the sense of all the baggage that comes with the apparent use of the term. On the question of allegiance (fourth link) I call false dichotomy. Re: Tolkein’s guru — I refuse to read any site that uses floaters to stop you reading for the all important God-you-need-this subscription offer. Whatever they have to say must be complete bullshit or they wouldn’t need such a hard sell. (I’m such a stinking hard-head!)
I never got a modal on the Tolkein page, although the page is so loaded with stupid ads I’m surprised I didn’t get overstimulated.