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A Higher Gear

by Terry January 27, 2009

 
“The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their over­de­vel­op­ment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.”— Paper 102, Section 3
 
 
In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but I remembered it. It said:
 
                        Life is a test.
                        It is only a test.
                        If it had been [...]

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New LIAR

by Michael Hart October 28, 2008

Evolution? Nope. Sarah believes in Creationism. That means she believes that Noah had a little fruit fly cage aboard the ark, where he kept a pair of fruit flies, right next to millions of other little cages with pairs of insects in them. But. Sarah is clearly jealous of the little critters. They’ve been to Paris; she hasn’t.

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THE SOCIAL VALUE OF WAR

by Terry September 7, 2008

IN THE PAST, a fierce war would bring about social changes and facilitate the adoption of new ideas, such as would not have occurred naturally in ten thousand years. But the terrible price paid for these certain advantages was that society was temporarily thrown back into savagery; civilized reason had to abdicate. War is strong [...]

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WHO ARE YOU, REALLY?

by Terry April 14, 2008

There’s a fascinating article by Amanda Marcotte at PANDAGON, “My hands are mine, but my feet are my sister,” which recounts a most unusual anomaly among the naturally occurring vagaries of human gene blending. In the process of unfolding that amazing story, she somewhat tangentially observes:
I don’t truck with the more superstitious need to have [...]

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