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Let Me Be Frank: Skepticism's sound and fury

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. Skepticism's sound and fury. I must admit to being impressed by the prowess of the nascent skeptics movement, which in the US has managed to collapse into schism without even a credo to argue over. If you consider yourself a skeptic or rationalist and frequent the blogs and websites of the American movement, you're probably familiar with the ongoing debacle, starting from the initial ginned-up scandal of Elevatorgate. Well, consider...

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Let Me Be Frank: June 2014

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me. The problem I have sits in the spaces between,. Looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen. I took a step back, and opened my eyes,. I looked around, and then realised. That this media we call social, is anything but. When we open our computers, and it’s our doors we shut. Of community, companionship, a sense of inclusion.

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Let Me Be Frank: To Make Much Use of Time

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. To Make Much Use of Time. It struck me recently that part of my mourning has been obscenely selfish; I have wept not at his absence, but for the death of my childhood, or most of it. The most poignant words I've ever heard come from Kurt Vonnegut:. Or that poem touched on so effectively in The Dead Poet's Society. To the Virgins, To Make Much Use of Time. Ye rosebuds while ye may,. Old Time is still a-flying:. To-morrow will be dying.

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Let Me Be Frank: July 2013

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. What does it mean to live naturally? Before going forward, however, there is the matter of the naturalistic fallacy to address. Just because something is Natural does not mean it is good, or to be desired. Wariness and hostility toward strangers might be a natural instinct, but in modern times, chances are that the sudden arrival of group of strangers will. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Seeking a Little Truth. Top Stories from the Week.

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Links | Society of Friends of Epicurus

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Society of Friends of Epicurus. 8230; for we need not the appearance of health but true health. 8211; Backup of Several Epicurean Sites. El Jardin de Epicuro. 8211; en Español. Group – Facebook. 8211; Friends from Greece. 8211; Friends from Australia. The Epicurus Facebook Page. Epistle to the Objectivists. 8211; Esperanto-language Group. The Scribes / Bloggers of the Garden. Hanrott’s Epicurus Blog. Davey Lee’s An Epicurean Thinker. The Being Human Blog. Steve Klesner’s Turtles All The Way Down.

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Let Me Be Frank: May 2014

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. To Make Much Use of Time. It struck me recently that part of my mourning has been obscenely selfish; I have wept not at his absence, but for the death of my childhood, or most of it. The most poignant words I've ever heard come from Kurt Vonnegut:. Or that poem touched on so effectively in The Dead Poet's Society. To the Virgins, To Make Much Use of Time. Ye rosebuds while ye may,. Old Time is still a-flying:. To-morrow will be dying.

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Let Me Be Frank: For an Old Kentucky Anarchist

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. For an Old Kentucky Anarchist. I never thought one could have a favorite song, but having discovered this one a year or so ago, it is hard to imagine one that speaks more true.There's a lot bound up in it for me, but essentially it seems a celebration of an authentic life against an artificial one. It falls within the fascinating and delightful realm of music known as 'folk punk'. Twas a yard that hadn't felt children's feet runnin',.

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Let Me Be Frank: May 2013

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. And if they do go, a police cruiser materializes out of thin air and promptly fines them. And the waste is not merely financial: people work fifty and sixty hours a week enriching someone else, while their children grow up on the sidelines, most of their childhood lost forever to their parents. Why burn petroleum when I can bike? So, how to work toward Zero Waste? Some ideas I have had. Bringing canvas sacks with me to the grocery s...

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Let Me Be Frank: Look Up

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them everyday, yet none of them really know me. The problem I have sits in the spaces between,. Looking into their eyes, or at a name on a screen. I took a step back, and opened my eyes,. I looked around, and then realised. That this media we call social, is anything but. When we open our computers, and it’s our doors we shut. Of community, companionship, a sense of inclusion.

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Let Me Be Frank: The Fate of Democracy in the US I: The Problem

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Let Me Be Frank. On Humanism - classical, civic, secular, and religious. The Fate of Democracy in the US I: The Problem. I have grown increasingly concerned about the status of 'democracy' in the United States. There are two major problems that I can see:. 1) Political power, ideally in the hands of the voting public, is not realized. 2 Actual political power, as held by politicians, is often misused or not used by the politicians in the interests of the common good. Representative democracy, capitalism,...