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Author Archives: Steve
Three a week: Self
Three questions about you: Question 1: What are you? Simple. Are you simply your physical body? If so, if you lose a limb, has your self-identity fundamentally changed? Is a double amputee less of a “self”? Certainly in a physical … Continue reading
One destruction of a-theism
(To see the related destruction of theism, go here) If you read the de-conversion stories of atheists, many started losing their faith in religion and the supernatural because they realized the universe seems to function without divine intervention. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, God, how to think critically, miracles, statistical improbability, structures, theism
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Three a week: Careers
In the West, especially in America, careers are awfully important. Three questions: Question 1: Why care about a career? Most people have jobs in order to live well and eat. Can a career be anything more than that? If you … Continue reading
Three a week: Music
If your auditory system works properly, you’ve heard what humans like to call “music”. Three questions: Question 1: What in the world is music? Don’t gloss over that question. Take 5 minutes out of your day to think about such … Continue reading
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Three a week: Stuff
He who dies with the most toys wins, right? Three questions: Question 1: Does material possession of stuff bring happiness? Most people believe that, to a degree, stuff is important. At least the having the basics. This just follows right … Continue reading
Three a week: the meaning of life
We are told it is a waste of time to ponder the meaning of life. We’re supposedly never going to find it. Three questions: Question 1: Why live? We didn’t choose to be born. Why continue existing? Fear of the … Continue reading
Three a week: Hope
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Three questions: Question 1: Why do we dramatize bad decision making? When all the odds are stacked against you, and you are left with only the tiniest chance of success, why … Continue reading
One destruction of theism
Can absurd statistical anomalies be explained without a god? We’ve all heard it: our universe is so complex, so finely tuned, it is statistically impossible for us to exist (let’s say, 1 in 10 to the 100th power). Therefore, we … Continue reading
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Tagged God, miracles, statistical improbability, statistics
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Three a week: Culture
Unless you live in the woods (with an internet connection?), you are influenced by culture. Three questions: Question 1: Should you care about your society’s culture? Think about it. Does a subjective, pervasive culture help anyone come closer to discovering … Continue reading
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Three a week: the brain
It is foolish to dismiss the novelty of the most complex 3 pounds of matter in the knownuniverse: the human brain. Three questions to use that brain to think about: Question 1: Where is the theater? In other words, we … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, the brain, three a week
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