The Mind Is The Effect, Not The

Imagination Is Cheap As Long As You Don't Have To Worry About The Details.

I Listen To All These Complaints About Rudeness And Intemperateness, And The Opinion That I Come To Is That There Is No Polite Way Of Asking Somebody: Have You Considered The Possibility That Your Entire Life Has Been Devoted To A Delusion? But That’s A Good Question To Ask. Of Course We Should Ask That Question And Of Course It’s Going To Offend People. Tough.

The Chief Trick To Making Good Mistakes Is Not To Hide Them-especially Not From Yourself.

Virtually Every Major Technological Advance In The History Of The Human Species- Back To The Invention Of Stone Tools And The Domestication Of Fire Has Been Ethically Ambiguous. If You Want To Reason About Faith, And Offer A Reasoned (and Reason Responsive) Defense Of Faith As An Extra Category Of Belief Worthy Of Special Consideration, I'm Eager To Play. I Certainly Grant The Existence Of The Phenomenon Of Faith; What I Want To See Is A Reasoned Ground For Taking Faith Seriously As A Way Of Getting To The Truth , And Not, Say, Just As A Way People Comfort Themselves And Each Other

Some Cultural Phenomena Bear A Striking Resemblance To The Cells Of Cell Biology, Actively Preserving Themselves In Their Social Environments, Finding The Nutrients They Need And Fending Off The Causes Of Their Dissolution.