Posted in media, philosophy, politics, tagged constitution, election, fanatic, god, huckabee, politics, primary, religion, republican, theocracy on January 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Today, Governor Huckabee lost the votes of all but the most fanatical evangelicals in the country by calling for a Constitutional amendment that would put the country under the law of the Bible.
Saying that “it is easier to amend the Constitution to conform with the word of the living God” than the other way around, [...]
Posted in controversial, philosophy, tagged chief joseph, Christianity, disproof, epistemology, god, Islam, Judaism, knowledge, moral code, proof, religion, science, scientific method, spirituality, world trade center on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Belief as a basis for acquiring knowledge is not only ineffective, it is dangerous. I do not mean that one should not believe in anything; one can believe in something if it represents a confluence of experience and facts that make such a hypothesis likely, although not yet proved. A physicist may believe in the [...]
Posted in media, philosophy, sociology on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 1983, I produced a little horror movie called C.H.U.D. The movie had not one, but two meanings. Fans will note that the posters all said that C.H.U.D. stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers while the plot turns on its true meaning of Contamination Hazard Urban Disposal. The first meaning was supplied by [...]
Posted in media, philosophy, sociology on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Evil in the Supermarket
So I’m in the ole A&P and there’s this guy wearing a tee shirt that says “Criminal Intent” in three inch block letters. An aisle down there is a six-year-old girl with a pink tee that says “Naughty”. Back home, on the TV, there’s one of those awful local [...]
Posted in media, philosophy, sociology on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, as the first generation reared under the influence of ubiquitous electronic media has taken control in the fields of journalism, television, movies, advertising and public relations, we face a moral and ethical crisis of serious and historic consequence.
The seemingly irreconcilable interests of commerce and social responsibility tend to tug the media [...]
Posted in philosophy on December 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Everything I believe is based on the following background elements:
1) My view of human spiritual Evolution
2) Acceptance of the Scientific Method as the basis for acquiring and testing knowledge
3) Humans have a fundamental drive to know. This is a primary drive akin to hunger and sex. It is not simply a need [...]
Posted in philosophy, tagged life, philosophy, time on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What would you do if you had only one week left to live? Would you read? Would you travel, would you eat all the gourmet food you could get your hands on?
I suggest that whatever our choice here, it will be futile if the goal is to appreciate and enjoy what is [...]
