The CyberPhilosopher

About 7 months ago I listened to an interview on Point of Inquiry with Peter Singer.  The effect on my life from that single interview was as immediate and drastic as any other single interaction (one way or bi-directionally) that I can think of.After listening, I decided to give up eating most meat.   This […]

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Last night at the bar, Ultimate Fighting Championship was on and like many other I was unable to look away while one person allowed themselves to be voluntarily beaten senseless by another person while somewhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people watched him.
This prompted one of my co-workers to say how that sort […]

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There is an article on MSNBC click here  describing how France has decided not to make an individual a citizen due to their beliefs.  In this case, the individual is a Muslim woman and the belief is her submissiveness to her husband.
This raises alot of interesting questions, not the least of which is what right does […]

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I have been reading “Mind of the Market” by Michael Shermer and he discusses two different Psychology experiments that have been conducted that show how much environment and situation can have an effect on our actions, i.e. if we behave what we would consider in a good way or a bad way.
The first experiment is […]

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I sometimes hear people talk about science being someones religion; a point which I generally am quick to disagree with and pounce on, but I recently decided to give it further consideration.
First, we must determine what we mean by science and what we mean by religion. In both definitions, we will no […]

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When you read a book like Richard Dawkins ‘The God Delusion’ you will most likely be in 1 of 2 camps. Either you were already an Athiest/Agnostic and you agree or you are a Thiest and you think he is crazy, mean, and stupid.
Well, for the record I agree with him, but I […]

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There is an article on 20-20 about a 13 year old girl that admitted at her school that she was an Atheist (link above)
But a few first thoughts about this article. First, not all christians are such bigots. In fact most are probabily not (tho the percentage will vary from location to location […]

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