Jan 15 2009
Airport philosophy
(Continuing in the vein of various objections I have to philosophical naturalism / secularism / materialism as a worldview…) While waiting in the airport departure lounge this morning, I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation between two businessmen. One of the phrases struck me. He simply said,
“I don’t deserve this kind of treatment…”
I wonder what Richard Dawkins would make of this?
I mean, just what [...]
Tags: Atheism, Bitesize Ideas, Dawkins, Provocative Thoughts
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Sep 25 2008
Do you support slavery? Really…?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6505691.stm (This is kind of following on from my post about feminism & gender-targeted abortion. It’s making a similar point but one no less important.)
Having recently celebrated 200 years since the abolition of slavery I think that there probably aren’t many people left in the world who support the idea of slavery – of having another human being as ‘property’ and being in control [...]
Tags: Current Affairs, Human Interest, Provocative Thoughts, Values
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Sep 14 2008
Turning ‘disdain’ into devotion
“The gospel [of Jesus Christ] produces people who do not disdain those whom they disagree with.” (Dr. Tim Keller)
The neo-secular orthodoxy today has a mantra. It goes something like this (and I’ll put it into a scene so you can picture it better). This is something I was actually viewing on YouTube yesterday. We are in a chat-show setting. Richard Dawkins has been invited [...]
Tags: Cultural Temperature, Dawkins, Keller, Provocative Thoughts
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May 9 2008
Fritzl & Obama
“I knew that I was hurting her. It was like an addiction…
“I knew the whole time that what I was doing was not right… but… it became completely matter-of-fact for me that I had a second life, which I led in the cellar of my house.” (Josef Fritzl)
Apart from the shocking details of cases like the Fritzl case, these cases simply add an [...]
Tags: Current Affairs, Politics, Provocative Thoughts
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Apr 29 2008
Shining Forever
The combination of watching the fairytale movie “Stardust” and being introduced to this song have led me to put finger to keyboard this evening…
Just in case you are not clued up with the plot of Stardust, it concerns a young man – a nobody – who ends up not only defeating the witch, getting the girl and becoming king but he also lives forever [...]
Tags: Films, Movies, Provocative Thoughts, Values
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May 27 2007
Zetta
There is a word we are much loathe to use
(All while awhoring in secret we go),
Which word when spoken has pow’r to effuse
Suggestions that smite right through the ego.
But call me wretched, for this single word
So aptly my ways and worship depicts,
That humbled and down and duly deterred
I come now to hear of facts that convict.
“Unfaithful” that [...]
Tags: Autobiography, Poetry
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Feb 24 2007
A nasty little conundrum for feminists…
Let me start this one out by saying that I certainly take no pleasure whatsoever in pointing out this particular conundrum since it refers to a particularly unpleasant and tragic reality. However, I am pointing it out – sincerely and purposefully – not to gloat in the slightest but simply to continue in my ongoing aim of exposing the glaring inconsistensies in the secular worldview [...]
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Jun 9 2006
The most desirable value?
Tolerance. It’s one of the bywords of our modern society. But what does it really mean… and why is it used so frequently nowadays?
The dictionary defines it as: willingness to accept or endure (someone or something unpleasant or disliked) with forbearance.
Well I ask you… is the world really so full of disagreeable people that “this” should be seen as the great value in today’s [...]
Tags: Apologetics, Provocative Thoughts, Values
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May 21 2006
Alpha
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O write me a verse for the amorous one,
Who would give his all, a love to pursue.
Such fervour is oft brief, swiftly undone,
And we question: can love ever be true?
Of grandiose gestures we are most fond
We plan them through the wee hours of the night
Hoping to fashion some passionate bond;
In her heart of hearts, ‘I’ her new [...]
Tags: Autobiography, Beauty, Poetry
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Oct 16 2005
“Thou shalt not disagree”
The latest EU slogan that we are hearing bandied about is ‘Unity in diversity’, a testament to the values of tolerance and acceptance that the EU is proud to espouse. The general idea is that although we all may come from different backgrounds and have different ideas on various issues, we believe that it is more important that we are united rather than opposed to [...]
Tags: Politics, Provocative Thoughts
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