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Earlier this month, “No Kings” protests set records for being among the most well attended political protests in recorded American history. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. On the same day, a politically motivated killer shot two Democratic politicians and their spouses in Minnesota, killing two and critically wounding the others. Continue reading How To Stop Believing In Conspiracy Theories
On Superintelligence, Moral Ignorance, and the Hope for a Future that Remembers
by Joshua Shrode
It started, strangely enough, with a question about saturation divers — the people who live for weeks at a time in steel tubes at the bottom of the ocean, doing dangerous, technical work in total darkness, cut off from the surface, from sunlight, from the world. Continue reading To Birth A God
A colleague of mine recently wrote:
An increasing number of observers suggest that the obsessive use of smartphones and social media that most people seem to suffer from makes them feel anxious and depressed. Continue reading Smartphones and Mental Health
A friend penned this thoughtful, short poem, one of the best philosophical poems I’ve ever read. And it rhymes. As Robert Frost said, writing free verse was like “playing tennis without a net.”
by Lyle Troseth
My last two posts have followed two experts discussing the problem of evil. One commentator, Lyle Troseth, offered a particularly moving response outlining his conclusion regarding the problem. I reprint the comment here in full, Continue reading Where Is God? The Answer, Nowhere