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The Sins of Highly Effective People

(via https://www.facebook.com/scientistsforeu/posts/3030750643693591) Have you ever wondered why brilliant people can also hold some pretty bizarre beliefs? Part of the reason is the mis-idea of intelligence in general, for instance if someone is a brilliant painter they will also be a genius at sculpture. But, another reason is that creative people see the forest despite the The Sins of Highly Effective People

Is Trump the Chosen One of God? Trump Thinks So!

Trump spent a manic Eastern posting in volume, but some posts getting the most attention are when Trump reposted the opinion that he was the special chosen one of God. For instance: See the Trump critiquing article by Ron Filipkowski HERE Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

Prof. Philip Goff’s New Atheist Spirituality

Professor Philip Goff is one of the world’s leading proponents of a new theory that claims the universe itself is conscious and set the conditions for the emergence of intelligent life. Could people soon be praying to this godlike cosmos? SEE ARTICLE HERE Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

Dr. Carlo Alvaro and Dr. Richard Carrier Debate the Kalam Cosmological Argument

Friend of Infidels Richard Carrier recently debated Carlo Alvaro on the Cosmological Argument. Alvaro apparently had a less than pleasing experience, claiming:  If you are interested in the Cosmological argument, put simplistically you can think I had parents, and they had parents, and they had parents and so on until we get back to some Dr. Carlo Alvaro and Dr. Richard Carrier Debate the Kalam Cosmological Argument

Happy Easter

Here’s something you may not know. In one of our earliest traditions on belief in the resurrection, Paul writes: Did you catch that? Paul says the resurrection was something done to Jesus, not something Jesus did. In other words, the early Christians who believed this thought God and Jesus were not the same person. Enjoy Happy Easter

The Great Commandment

We read in Deuteronomy 6 that:  “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life The Great Commandment

Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 2/2)

FOR PART 1 PLEASE SEE Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 1/2) (3) Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Ek-static Transcendental Idealism Kant’s critical philosophy was a major object of inquiry for Heidegger his entire career, from the early lecture course on Kant and Phenomenology and the Kant and metaphysics book of the late 1920’s, to Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 2/2)