Psychiatrists medicalize personal problems, while psychologists apply the social sciences. Now there are counselors who use philosophers to help people think through their problems: Patricia Anne Murphy is a philosopher with a real-world mission. Murphy may have a PhD and an intimate knowledge of Aristotle
I was writing in my office at school when, around 1:51 yesterday, the building and my desk with the built in bookshelf started shaking. Hard. Back and forth for thirty seconds. My mind went just blank, and when I gathered my wits, right at the
From Bright Young Things Via FamousDC.com HT: Necessary Roughness
Secularists are scaring themselves with a new bogeyman: Dominionists. That is their term for evangelicals and other conservative Christians, whom they are conflating with a tiny number of actual theocrats, which are probably fewer in number than members of the American Communist Party. I like
Some libertarian venture-capitalists are planning to build new nations on ocean platforms–they are calling it “seasteading” (get it–from homesteading?)–as libertarian mini-utopias: [Patri] Friedman [grandson of free market economist Milton Friedman] wants to establish new sovereign nations built on oil-rig-type platforms anchored in international waters—free from
A new Bible translation is now available, the Common English Bible. Check out the website, which includes this comparison of passages from the new CEB and other translations: Common English Bible – Compare Translations. What agendas are evident in this translation? What theology is at
Joe Carter, via a string of other blogs, quotes the late Michael Crichton’s 2002 essay “Why Speculate?”: Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by
This sort of thing attracts ridicule and alarm in the media and the blogosphere–“NASA thinks aliens will wipe us out to stop global warming!” as with “Pentagon plans war with Canada”!–but agencies and consultants spin out possible scenarios and make contingency plans for everything imaginable.
Go to Google and type “church.” (Go ahead. We’ll wait.) How close to the top of results was Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a., the Mormons)? Now try a search for another word like “Friend.” Or “Old Testament.” Note how the Mormons
Allan Sloan, an editor of Fortune, blames BOTH tea party conservatives AND the Obama administration for bungling our economic crisis: What the hell is going on? We thought the worst was behind us, but it wasn’t, thanks largely to fallout from the Standard & Poor’s
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