Religion
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Religious Twaddle
One sentence, let’s do this…. Leeroy Jenkins!! I’m an atheist, so to me school RE is a lesson in the history of what demonstrably infantile and ignorant nonsense a certain group of people have chosen to continue, beyond the reasonable excuse of childhood ignorance, and maybe because of family pressure, to believe under certain social Continue reading
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Anger cannot be ignored
People are rioting, the media is blaming social media and specifically a man known as Tommy Robinson, but what exactly is going on? In the simple explanation, the far-right has risen and they have used misinformation to weaponise fear and sympathy into public anger. For me it is too simple to present people as thugs Continue reading
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The worst of us
We have politicians, and unfortunately they are the worst of us, often the worst people they could be. Just take a sample of them and ask yourself if they possess the courage of their convictions, if they serve their own interests or others. Ask if you could do better, think better, act more morally, if Continue reading
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Just stop
I see groups of people banding together because of their circumstances of birth, “I am a leftist Jew”, “I am a Christian Socialist or Conservative”, “I am a Muslim”, “I am a Christian” …. Therefore Insert perspective/opinion/political leanings here… Well this is silly, why not use reason? When we start a statement in this manner Continue reading
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A broken difference engine, some sex, and a teapot
The human mind is a broken difference engine, we have built a broken society as a result, and as usual I have a theory that might explain why. The usual approach for a philosophy piece would be to try to establish both the credential of the theorist, I have none, and the validity of the Continue reading
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Bronze age mumbo
You cannot wake up some day and decide that you are not black, Asian, Chinese, European, left handed, homosexual, or the hair colour you were born with. You can decide not to follow the mumbo jumbo contained in textbooks that all just happen to have been written in and around a small region of the Continue reading
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Important differences between Prejudice and Preference
The important difference between Racism, where a person or group, deliberately, or unconsciously, treats another person or group with prejudice or favour, and Culturalism, where a person or group may do exactly the same thing, and garner exactly the same outcome, is in the motivation for doing so. Now that puts us into a bind, Continue reading
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Nothing changes if you go too far, or not far enough.
George Floyd might not have been the best guy, that doesn’t excuse what happened to him, or what happens to many persons from his community, and far too often. The police that harmed him felt justified in what they were doing, it was not a mistake, it’s likely a behaviour they’ve displayed before. If it’s Continue reading
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Functionalism, a good account of pain?
I will be looking at the specific reaction of the mind to the condition of pain from the point of view that the mind is a functional device or machine that processes pain as possibly more than just the predictable end product of stimulus. I should start by stating that although it is pleasant to Continue reading
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A life or not a life?
Let me first point out that I am not sure what a strong or weak argument constitutes for this issue aside from what I may find compelling from an emotional point of view. It may be a hard conversation to be involved in, not because of experience but because of a lack of it. Although Continue reading
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