Create a widget for free. 2008-09-19 12:49:54 Get the Adventures in Existence widget
and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!There's this site called WidgetBox that let's you design a widget for your blog/website (I found this through Copious Dissent). Basically it's like a mini-RSS feed that you create and post on your blog or wherever, presumably in the hopes that people will copy the code and add it to their own sites. It's pretty
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. 2008-09-17 09:20:44 Today's episode of SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal
was particularly good. Can you imagine what it would be like if people took this quantum superposition stuff seriously and actually applied it to their lives? This video will give you an idea. (The last five seconds really say it all, don't they?)Adventures in Existence Read more:Saturday Morning
The Bibel tells me so. 2008-09-14 20:33:35 ................................When you're arguing with Christians, sometimes they won't try to prove the existence of God to you, they'll just try to convince you that a wide variety of abstractions could not possibly exist in a universe without God. How presumptuous of them! These people are saying that they can prove that there is no and never will be a naturalistic, non-magical, cause-and-e Read more:tells
Definitions of "atheism" and "selfishness." 2008-09-14 20:24:42 ................................I want to say something about the history of the word "atheism." Today, if you say you are an atheist, you mean that you don't believe in God. In the past, the word "atheist" meant that you were also evil. And I don't just mean that it had negative connotations, I mean that that was how it was defined in the dictionary and that is the way people used it. You wou Read more:Definitions
The Wishing Circle II. 2008-09-14 20:22:12 ................................I don't subscribe to the interpretation of quantum physics that says that our observing something causes it to exist. No amount of experiments in any part of the universe could possibly prove that. But then, that's why it's an interpretation I guess.Adventures in Existence Read more:Circle
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Christianity is a relationship. 2008-09-14 20:20:42 ................................This comic is intended to make the reader think about nonexistence, and the fact that it only exists as a concept and not an actual... thing. Also to make fun of Christianity
.Adventures in Existence
Big Bang Theory: atheists vs theists. 2008-09-14 20:19:08 ................................Atheists and theists sometimes have surprisingly similar views about the origins of the universe. What really gets me is that Christians and other theists feel superior because they think their theory makes so much more sense. They'll say, "Something can't come from nothing. Nothing comes from nothing! You silly atheists!" but they think that putting God into th Read more:Big Bang
, Big Bang Theory
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The Wishing Circle. 2008-09-14 20:17:10 ................................A while ago, someone challenged my assertion that Christians cannot answer Euthyphro's dilemma by directing me to a post on a theology forum. This is a typical Christian answer to an argument, which uses it as an opportunity to prove that the Christian God is the only God that can rebutt this argument. What is it that saves Christians from this dilemma? Why, none Read more:Circle
, Wishing
Theism = subjectivism. 2008-09-11 19:21:47 Atheists are constantly being accused of moral subjectivism. In philosophy apparently there is this big problem of where morality comes from when God is out of the picture. Without a Supreme Being to dictate ethics to humanity, "moral anarchy" ensues. Man simply can't be good without the fear of God and Hell. Well, all this obviously rests on the assumption that religious morality is not subjec
The Distraction of Eyes 2008-09-11 18:37:11 ................................I'm going to quote something from an article I read earlier today by David H. I. Geoffrey, the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It gets pretty deep:"Narrativity is intrinsically a legal fiction," says Marx; however, according to Abian, it is not so much narrativity that is intrinsically a legal fiction, but rather the genre, and sub
Reason and emotion. 2008-10-01 21:47:12 ................................This Disney cartoon, made during WWII, is about the relationship between reason and emotion. It encourages to be rational and not get hysterical with fear about Nazi Germany. On top of that, it basically says the cause of the conflict is irrationalism, because Germany is ruled by irrational emotions under Hitler. I'm astounded at how philosophical and how pro-rea Read more:Reason
Interview with Nick Provenzo. 2008-09-26 18:23:48 I thought somebody might be interested in this interview Jim Woods did with Nick Provenzo from the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism in 2006. It is about effective activism; something, apparently, that Mr. Provenzo is very good at. Some of the discussion points in the interview:The key to activism.Selling high school kids on Objectivism.Selling college kids on Objectivism.The importance of
YouTube Christian-atheist drama. 2008-09-22 22:12:11 ................................This video concerns some of the recent atheist/Christiandrama
on YouTube
- specifically an evangelical called "Yokeup" - so if you don't follow that, this could be meaningless to you. Therefore I will try to make it relevant by drawing some abstract moral from what I talk about in the video. The moral of the story is: Don't blame all of your shitty behavior on God.
Reason is okay, but faith is better. 2008-10-07 09:53:06 ................................"If you don't think that logic is a good method for determining what to believe, make an attempt to convince me of that without using logic. No one has even bothered to try yet." - Brett LemoineI hate it when people say they are not against reason and then proceed to list all the subjects that reason is limited to, while "faith" makes off like a bandit, laying claim Read more:better
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