Question for the day: Why is it that we care less about the people farther away from us than those closer to us? An old episode of Twilight Zone, to illustrate. I’m taking this verbatim from David Eagleman’s new book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, which is great, by the way. We all […]
The Mindful Child
We all know kids who are out of control. We all know adults who are out of control. And we all don’t want to have those kids or be those adults. Enter: mindfulness. I’ve posted numerous times on this topic only because it’s extremely important to me. There’s the post on Building Emotional Intelligence, based […]
If There Is No God
I don’t understand the argument below. Do you? Please enlighten me. I’d give Geisler and Turek a hard time about it, but this kind of argument is rampant in all the existential literature (on all sides), and I, for one, am flummoxed concerning it. The following excerpt is from I Don’t Have Enough Faith To […]
Something to Gnaw On
You know I’m here to make you think, right? You know I’m here to ask the tough questions? Here’s another one. This bit is from Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith. Talk amongst yourselves. [Post image: Elf by juliaf on stock.xchng]
