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music
You had me at "illegal magical practices." -
late question
Does anyone reading this plan to go to croquet? -
That seems like one of the more coherent bits
From my dream: "Oh great, now the Chinese government will accuse me of hating Santa Claus (or wanting to kill God)." -
September 26, 1983
Happy Petrov Day! I invented this holiday to remember someone who may have saved civilization and got screwed for it. -
Why Nietszche acts like a dick
Actually, I just plan to address one dickish behavior: Nietzsche's use of what seem like ad hominem attacks. He analyzes philosophers as if he thinks their motives disprove their conclusions. This would generally qualify as a logical fallacy. Even if the majority of people who believe in Hell did so out of envy, that wouldn't prove from an abstract ( Read more... ) -
elementalism
"There can be only one" seems like a terrible way of looking at the world. But we have the habit of trying to look at causes in isolation, as if anything could happen in isolation. Even if we can't find more than one proximate cause for an event, we can find a cause for that cause and continue this back until our knowledge gives out. More often it ( Read more... ) -
payday loan
Just popping in to link to a post about the payday loan. See here for the reason why. (Feel free to tell me I don't know what I'm doing technically. Unless you just want to point out that few people read my journal.) -
weird economics
This post consists of a rough draft of my favorite plan to end poverty and wage slavery in America. My dream Congress would threaten to put this plan into operation unless experts produced a better plan.
( Click to read quackery ) -
"asteroid" means "dwarf planet"
Hail Eris and her satellite, Gulik! -
Reformation and Age of Reason
This essay about doctrine (via Amp) suggests a way to solidy a post or two that I've kicked around for a while.* (From my point of view the author talks about empathy and then starts his next paragraph with an insult, but never mind that now.) It starts by mentioning two groups who ask two different questions of religion: the children of the ( Read more... )