Category: argument
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Start watching TV, Maitreya is coming, Maitreya is coming!
Over the last few weeks, there have been full-page ads in our local paper, The Daily Camera, announcing that Maitreya, the One World Healer, the World Teacher, the Messiah, the returning Christ (sorry for any confusion, all of the previous are referring to the same dude), will soon be back on earth and, even better,…
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Shoot me. Shoot me now! Why? It’s beyond a secret.
Let me sum up the following post in one word: AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If you can’t figure out from incisive and condensed comment what I’m talking about, I’ll elaborate (but only a bit, because I’m low on oxygen from screaming at the top of my lungs for the last 5 minutes). I’ve said before that the surest…
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What science says about enlightenment
With the idea that I should be eating a bit more protein, and being someone who is primarily a vegetarian who eats sushi every now and then, I headed for the low-fat dairy aisle. Sucker that I am for personal testimonials, I remembered a friend saying he loved kefir, a yogurt-ish drink. Well, I’m no…
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Semper Ube Sub Ube
From the Latin… Translation (kinda): Always Wear UnderWear Twice today someone asked me, “But if you feel confident and visualize getting what you want, don’t you believe that you will, at least, increase the probability that you’ll get it?” The shortest answer I came up with was: No. The longer version is this story: I…
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The Three Stooges of Truth…
All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Shopenhauer I don’t remember when I first heard this quote, but I can’t count high enough to list the number of times I’ve heard it tossed into conversations in the year since,…
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Fundamentalist Physicists and Religious Atheists
Okay, I’ve had enough. I’m all for a good argument. And good is the operative word in that sentence. And by “good” I mean a conversation where the two parties are not merely harping on their particular point of view, but where each party has the skill to highlight the underlying beliefs as well as…
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Questioning Questions
“How old were you when you stopped having sex with your pet?” “What!? I never had sex with my pet!” “Stop avoiding the question. How old were you?” “But, I…” That argument is clearly going nowhere. And the reason is obvious: the most important part of the question is actually the assumption underneath it. The…
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Why, yes, I AM rubber!
I’m starting a new campaign that all humans should wear diapers. No more limiting this revolutionary article of clothing to the very young and very old. We should ALL wear them! And not because of the combination of convenience and entertainment value that we would get by being able, say, to interrupt the negotiation of…