In the interest of simplicity, I'm decreasing the number of blogs I mirror at. Future posts will be posted to my Blogger blog and picked up on my Facebook notes ( Read more... )

On Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation

A while ago, Cameron sent me a link to the b "log article "The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation" by Floyd Rudmin and requested my thoughts on it. Unfortunately, I had not been able to get around to it until now.

I'm afraid to say that Rudmin's articles is probably one of the lamest commentaries on ( Read more... )

The DistantCollegian has replied to my previous post here Sorry this took me so long and may not be satisfactory. :-/

Clarification
It seems to me that we agree on a lot and our disagreement(s) have been relatively ambiguous so far. Therefore, rather than answering the DistantCollegian directly, I would like to ask him if he believes the following ( Read more... )

The DistantCollegian has responded to my latest post on rational values here and here. My response is as follows ( Read more... )

Sam has commented on my previous blog entry concerning the Episcopal Church on my MySpace mirror:

I find it funny that you talk about "God's real actions in history". God is not part of history. History is a human creation. God is not. But before I step into this hole, as it is a rather deep one, let me just say believe what you want to. Faith is ( Read more... )

The DistantCollegian has replied to my previous arguments regarding Value Judgements and provided a more thorough explanation of his distinction between Continental and English reason on his own blog

Continental vs. English Reason

Now, the Continentals have a tradition of belief that pure reason can find a priori truth, rather than merely ( Read more... )

Recently, I visted the Department of Defense's website and found this intriguing article reporting that WMD have indeed been found in Iraq.

Highlights include:

The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center's ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I noticed John Kerry's article "Stopping the Big Giveaway" on Digg. This article reveals some problematic thinking that has helped me to decide against supporting net neutrality, which I had previously been apprehensive about anyway.

Everyone says they don’t want the new world we’re living in to be marked by the digital divide - ( Read more... )

In the wake of the recent media flurry regarding the Episcopal Church, The Panda's Thumb had an article regarding Katharine Jefferts Schori. While not surprised by the fawning over a pro-evolution church leader, what disturbed me was this citation from Schori's biography regarding the making of "faith" decisions:

On sources of authority and the ( Read more... )

For my philosophy 114 class (Intro to Knowledge and Reality), we are reading through Richard Taylor's Metaphysics. The following is part of a an post I made on the class Blackboard Forum during a discussion of Fate we had a couple weeks ago on the subject of Fate as introduced in the book and attempts to explain some of my thoughts on the issue:

1. ( Read more... )