My schedule at TAM2013…
TAM2013: Come hear a panel of skeptic bloggers talk about (surprise!) skeptic blogging.
TAM2013: Come hear a panel of skeptic bloggers talk about (surprise!) skeptic blogging.
UK youth are managing to unshackle themselves from the explicit connection that their parents, and wider society, have typically drawn between religion and morality. That’s good news.
Today is World Humanist Day – let’s remember to keep Humanist values in mind, and work towards them where and when we can.
We can take crimes committed in the name of Satanism and the occult seriously without trading in misrepresentation and caricature of those who subscribe to minority religions. In fact, taking those crimes seriously demands that we do so.
If you aren’t careful, all of your “blank” water might mysteriously turn into “medicine”. Which you couldn’t tell apart from water, but never mind that.
It’s important to manage oyster fisheries “in a manner that would please, praise and glorify that one who provided and gave man the power to rule over the fish (including oysters)”. Apparently.
Our short-attention span world of headlines and attendant hyperbole often results in our not giving credit where it’s due, for example in acknowledging that the Pope’s recent comments should be welcomed.
Even though we’re not yet at the halfway mark of the annual initiation ceremonies in one South African province, as many people have already died there as in the Boston bombings. Yet by contrast to the bombings, the initiation deaths were easy to anticipate and prevent.
Dennett’s new book “Intuition pumps” contains many useful tips for improving our thinking, including using Rapoport’s rules as the “best antidote for the tendency to caricature one’s opponent”.
Death should not be trivialised, so it’s understandable that some of us are wary of legislation that allows for assisted suicide. But if it’s the dignity of life that we’re hoping to preserve, it’s unclear how denying suffering people their final choice promotes a sort of dignity worth preserving.
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