Podcast #1
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Suis-je Charlie?
There are so many twisted, knotted strands to this Charlie Hebdo thing, forming a dark shroud – let’s pull on a few of those strands, and see whether the fabric tightens or falls apart.
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- Tags: charlie hebdo, free speech, Islam, muhammad, terrorism
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How to Get up in the Morning
I don’t think I’ve met any adult who relishes getting out of bed and starting whatever they have planned for the day: here’s what works for me.
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- Tags: Fitness, Health, Meditation, Motivation
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Well-Intentioned but Wrong
Despite good intentions, people’s prescriptions on how not to be prejudiced can often be misfires.
The Tao of Thinking
Choosing the right way to think about an academic question can sometimes be as important as your level of intelligence or your knowledge.
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The Three Con-Jobs
I’m sure that the reader has heard several religious people arguing over differing interpretations of the book to which all subscribe. Yet, this discussion represents only the partition of territory after the region has been occupied and conquered.
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- Tags: God, Hindu, Low Church, Lysenkoism, Natural Selection, Religious text, Reza Aslan, Rowan Williams
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Hating Dawkins
I feel that I too often encounter a positive reaction to a pronouncement by the brilliant Dawkins alongside an admonition of his character and his method of operation.
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- Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Dawkins, God Delusion, Islam, Martin Amis, Middle-East, New Statesman, Richard Dawkins
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Offensive Censorship
By way of a temporal journey back a few months: I was reading a BBC article today which discussed the decision by the German state of Bavaria to allow the publication of Mein Kampf after it’s copyright expires in 2015. I was then directed to a story about how the… Continue Reading Offensive Censorship
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- Tags: Adolf Hitler, Bavaria, BBC, Christmas, German, Germany, literature, Mein Kampf, Politics, Waterstone, Writing
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The Constitution of the Mind
In the last Saturday’s Guardian Magazine, the boldly titled ‘This Column Will Change Your Life’ referred to a very interesting study on the nature of the human mind. The column discussed the way in which people perceive the constitution of the human mind and even the dreaded soul, and whether… Continue Reading The Constitution of the Mind
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- Tags: Belief, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Dualism, Materialism, Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Physicalism, Screwtape Letters
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Opinion
‘That’s your opinion and you have a right to it.’ or some other such statement (usually preceding the speaker’s disagreement with said opinion) is one which provides me with an acute combination of offense and irritation.
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- Tags: Egypt, Freedom of speech, Human Right, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, John Stuart Mill, Liberty, Politics, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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