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Broken Biologian: Just Physical: Modern Spirituality and the Devaluation of Sex
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Saturday, April 9, 2016. Just Physical: Modern Spirituality and the Devaluation of Sex. We like to think of ourselves as a sex-positive society. In comparison to other cultures, ours is obsessed with it. It is omnipresent in the media, and priests complain that we have taken it to the point of indulgence. Yet, phrases like "physical gratification" are not restricted to the pulpit, and raise a grave question. Do we really value sex as much as we claim? At the opposite end is the worldview of people like t...
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Broken Biologian: December 2012
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Monday, December 24, 2012. Literalism and Symbolism in Reading the Bible: By What Criterion? This post develops a topic that was brought up in two previous posts. In 'Does Evolution Contradict Christianity? Later, in "The False Dichotomies of Richard Dawkins", I went into some discussion of the question, as Dawkins puts it: "By what criterion do you decide. Which passages are symbolic, which literal? And 'by what criterion? It seems to be a pretty unrealistic choice to give someone. To start with the...
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Broken Biologian: The Political Tension between Men's Issues and New Left Orthodoxy
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Saturday, February 27, 2016. The Political Tension between Men's Issues and New Left Orthodoxy. That framework is the New Left. Women's liberation is accountable only to the extent that it is part of the current New Left synthesis (despite originating as its outcast: "quiet woman, the men are talking about social inequality! There are two particular categories of men's issues that deserve mention. One category focuses on the value of masculinity. The idea is that masculinity has positive aspects that...
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Broken Biologian: April 2016
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Saturday, April 9, 2016. Just Physical: Modern Spirituality and the Devaluation of Sex. We like to think of ourselves as a sex-positive society. In comparison to other cultures, ours is obsessed with it. It is omnipresent in the media, and priests complain that we have taken it to the point of indulgence. Yet, phrases like "physical gratification" are not restricted to the pulpit, and raise a grave question. Do we really value sex as much as we claim? At the opposite end is the worldview of people like t...
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Broken Biologian: June 2012
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Friday, June 29, 2012. On the Human Response to Death. Although it remains legitimate to speculate the possibility that death is not the end of the road for an individual, I would argue that there is no logical sense in which the reality of death itself can be considered a question. The prospect of not-existing may be inconceivable, but there is nothing objectively problematic or contradictory about it. It leaves no gap in one's understanding, no reason to say 'but what about? Of death, and. Of death tha...
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Broken Biologian: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013. Social Criticism as Pigeonholing: Where Reading between the Lines can Go Wrong. Such is the extent of our capacity for independent thinking, which I fear is grossly underestimated by postmodern age thinking. Instead we attribute to our cultural inheritance such control over our perspectives that it seems to me the social-critical equivalent of the 'gene for.' view of inheritance so discredited in biology. What is being said, at least to the best of our ability and goodwill.
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Broken Biologian: November 2013
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Friday, November 15, 2013. How Not to Blame the Victim: a Critique of the "'Nice Guy' Trope" Polemic. I want to start by emphasizing the aspects of the post that I agree with, before turning to those with which I take issue. It's a slippery slope, I know, but I assume out of respect that The Eff Word would agree. These two aspects of The Eff Word's post have my complete sympathy. I will now lay out the main argument and where I take issue. Not responding to behavior and body language is probably the best...
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Broken Biologian: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Biology, Individualism, and a REAL Alternative to Cultural Determinism. Why do I behave in this context like some sort of traditionalist? In my post ' Social Criticism as Pigeonholing. Now, let's take a very close look at this argument. To begin with, one can hardly deny that such a 'culture of expectation' exists, and for this reason I could accept it as a possible. Why does there simply have to be some sort of taken for granted cultural value? It basically states that people are...
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Broken Biologian: March 2016
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Thursday, March 31, 2016. Gender Relations and Society: why our 'Caveman' Ancestry is a Red Herring. How often do we hear about those nostalgic days when men with clubs allegedly courted women by 'dragging them into caves'? Now let's stop to consider the fact that we have all this reliable textbook information about how to eat healthy. We've come a long way from merely relying on the likes of Grandma's good old "you should eat your greens! But the real question is not whether the evolutionary answers to ...
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Broken Biologian: Gender Relations and Society: why our 'Caveman' Ancestry is a Red Herring
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Thursday, March 31, 2016. Gender Relations and Society: why our 'Caveman' Ancestry is a Red Herring. How often do we hear about those nostalgic days when men with clubs allegedly courted women by 'dragging them into caves'? Now let's stop to consider the fact that we have all this reliable textbook information about how to eat healthy. We've come a long way from merely relying on the likes of Grandma's good old "you should eat your greens! But the real question is not whether the evolutionary answers to ...
