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Boghossian fail | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/04/06/boghossian-fail
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. So there’s this philosophy professor out there named Peter Boghossian. Who recently published a book called called. A Manual for Creating Atheists. In which he advances all sorts of techniques of gentle Socratic persuasion aimed at getting people out of religion. Let’s all be sensitive to reason and evidence, etc. etc. Fine. Whether life has meaning or not would seem to be a rather serious and challenging question, precisely the sort of thing ...
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A sketch of an argument for moral skepticism | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/06/07/a-sketch-of-an-argument-for-moral-skepticism
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. A sketch of an argument for moral skepticism. Most people, the untutored folk and trained philosophers alike, think of morality as truly universal, at least for the parts of it that they take seriously. Consider propositions like “it is wrong to enslave human beings.” If you were to ask most people if it is always and everywhere wrong to enslave human beings, they would agree that it is. One that requires some sort of explanation. The notion t...
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Life in a can | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/07/04/life-in-a-can
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. Life in a can. Found on tumblr at Peter Zeelock. Which traces back to The Promised WLAN. And in turn to this Facebook page. The title of the work is. By artist Steve Cutts. Folks with a pessimistic or cynical view of life should definitely visit his site. Which has a lot of very clever illustration of just this sort. It’s like seeing Otto Dix. Illustrate 21st-century American consumer capitalism. July 4, 2015. Iago Faustus, Ph.D. This is a blo...
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An educational experience | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/04/20/an-educational-experience
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. I am currently engaged in a long-term listening project of trying to hear every episode of the horror-fiction podcast Pseudopod. Which has some pretty good stuff. Also, even the most horrible of horror stories make a welcome distraction from my daily commute, so it’s a good bargain for me. And narrated by Mur Lafferty. 8220;Fuck you, you fucks,” he tells us. And he doesn’t give two shits about us and he tells that we’ll a...You go old man!
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The gender neutral pronoun | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/the-gender-neutral-pronoun
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. The gender neutral pronoun. This page is an adaptation of a post. Which I originally put up at Erotic Mad Science a while back. It’s a shame that English, and for that matter all the Indo-European languages with which I have at least a nodding familiarity, have such a problem with this. Languages like Chinese (the spoken version of Standard Modern Chinese. Anyway) make do with a single pronoun (. Introduced by the New Zealand writer Keri Hulme.
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The right side always wins | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2014/11/21/the-right-side-always-wins
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. The right side always wins. American Patriotism, World ד Version. Not even a rhetorical one, in Allied conduct of the war.) By the time the first American soldier set foot on the European continent. It is simplistic, indeed really rather wrong, to depict the Second World War as one which the good guys simply “won.” It would be more if not entirely accurate to describe the European war as one in which a horrible tyranny went to ...Of an anti-Se...
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A lot of what Faustus thinks is true | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2012/08/26/a-lot-of-what-faustus-thinks-is-true
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. A lot of what Faustus thinks is true. Duke University philosopher Alex Rosenberg. Has a book out which I like rather better than such Gnu Atheist books by the likes of Sam Harris. The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Following Garrison Keillor’s comic radio-drama hero Guy Noir. Rosenberg poses a series of “life’s persistant questions” and the answers thereto, ...Why am I here?
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An observation on happiness | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/04/18/an-observation-on-happiness
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. An observation on happiness. Perhaps it was the fact that it was Tax Day in the U.S., but I forgot to blog this when it first appeared, an article by Tim Lott at Alternet, apparently reprinted from. 8220; Please, Everyone, Can We Stop Pretending We Must All be Constantly Happy? 8221; There’s much agreeable here, especially the deployment of the useful descriptor “happiness fascism” and also this:. Now if only someone would tell Peter Singer.
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Truth in comics | Pyrosophy
http://pyrosophy.net/2015/06/11/truth-in-comics
Sobel: Might there not be a God…. The gender neutral pronoun. Panel: A blond LITTLE GIRL in a dress sits on the steps of an urban brownstone. She is playing with a doll, and a large toy ball sits behind her t her right. She is addressing a PASSING STRANGER, a man in a suit and hat, as he walks by. LITTLE GIRL: Are you unhappy, mister? PASSING STRANGER: Yes, and you’ll be too, if you get a chance to grow up! Sourced on tumblr (roughly) to Doctor Sardonicus. June 11, 2015. Iago Faustus, Ph.D. There is a co...
