Commenter Thoughts directs our attention to his (?) essay, Materialists should read this first . This essay is, however, problematic on a number of points. In his essay, Thoughts points out a contradiction in materialism, inveighs at great length against.
Topics: dialectical materialism, philosophy

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Except for the wars and the torture and the assassinations and the extraordinary renditions and Guantanamo and Bagram and the tax cuts and the deficits and the cover-ups and the bailouts of rich bankers and ignoring Katrina victims and gay-bashing and...
Topics: humor, Obama administration, politics

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trying to restore the search function.

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I've been thinking the last couple of weeks about why I quit blogging. Ironically enough, the closing of this blog has been noted as much (with barely concealed glee) in the religious blogosphere as in the atheist. Let me clear something up: I'm..
Topics: about the blog

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This [passage] illustrates very well the totalitarian tendency which is implicit in the anarchist or pacifist vision of Society. In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behavior is public opinion. But...
Topics: politics, quotations

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