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Socrates was traveling to visit his friend Xeno, when he came to a fork in the road. At the fork was a man. "Dear fellow," said Socrates, "I seek the home of my friend, Xeno. Do you know where it is?" Without speaking a word, the man flung out an arm, pointing along the left fork of the road...

Among the Hare Krishna, if one is able to use deception to get a karmi to perform a service for Krishna, does that aid in their spiritual advancement, thus rendering the act of deception to be acceptable? That is, in blunt terms, is it acceptable to lie to outsiders so long as it advances the...

It's very easy to know The Truth. Anyone who disagrees with you merely does not understand you, because it is not possible for someone to understand what you say and still disagree with you. Therefore, someone who claims to understand you and still disagree with you either lies about...

Children are impressed by flashy displays and have no patience for careful, methodical, judicious processes, no matter what the outcome or benefit of the process might be. Children demand a sky magician "god". They reject a God who is careful, methodical, and judicious. Adults have little...

I was recently conversing with someone who claimed that "cultural relativism" was the only proper basis upon which to make social decisions. Now, this might well be a fashionable pose to make, but a claim of exclusive validity for cultural relativism appears to be self-destructive. To wit: If...

Statisticians are people who explain ballistics to a dog so he can have a full understanding of its flight path in order to catch it. Scientists are dogs who just want you to throw the darn ball. I concluded this after wading through half a dozen papers written by statisticians, for...

A recent news story put me in mind of Matthew 6:5-6: “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when...

“Oh no, we are not insane. We are just doing philosophy.” --Wittgenstein, On Certainty.

What are opinions of the "Conservative Bible Project" that is being sponsored by "Conservapedia". Evidently, the participants have taken it upon themselves to "correct" and "purify" the Bible in English, even to the point of deleting portions of the New Testament that they deem to be too...

I have come across many an ethic regarding human life, especially the life of an unborn human vs. that of a murderer. Some say that all human life is human life--it is not our place to kill people. Others draw the line elsewhere.

The church is nearby--but it is snowing. The tavern is far away--but I will walk carefully.