The New Barack is Blue
Barack Obama turned the world Blue. Red Republicans claim there is no Obama mandate, but we who won the world — know the United States is forever changed — but how can we semiotically prove the provenance of the Blue Mandate?
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Our Moral Genetic Code: Religious Transcendentalism and Scientific Empiricism
In a fascinating essay published in The Atlantic in 1998, Edward O. Wilson digs into us to try to understand — The Biological Basis of Morality — and he leavens our understanding of faith and facts by pitting religious transcendentalism against scientific empiricism. Wilson argues, in a thought-provoking and wide-ranging article, that the fate of the human condition rests in tempering a harmony between those opposite, and irreconcilable, philosophies.
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Taste Bud Chemistry
Our tongues are being taken over by chemicals to invoke, for false profit, the taste and the memory of foods that no longer exist. This fooling of the taste buds — this mocking of experience with lies — provides us a context that crumbles in ignition and a present that only mirrors the past instead of finding reflexively inspired knowing.
Einstein and the Vatican Rock the Secular Universe
God believers have always held up Albert Einstein — the World’s Smartest Man — as evidence that God exists because they believe Einstein said God was real.
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Death of the Old God
The great American Playwright Eugene O’Neill said, in the early 1900’s:
“The greatest challenge to mankind over the next century will be the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God.”
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