I’ve been really busy lately, mostly with being a Dad (as natural as walking on grass!), but Some of the stuff I’ve been doing is design related too. Hopefully I’ll be posting some of that work soon. Speaking of design, I’m even thinking of redesigning this site. So that will be cool. I’ve also been…
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You don’t have to be a monster to do monstrous things | Chris Haw & Insights into Evil
The rhetoric of Americans being the good guys and of all the bad guys being out there made me suspicious. I grew suspicious, not only by the irony of Christian calls to war, but by studying. Studying sociology, I learned of the startling Zimbardo prison experiment at Stanford, wherin a dozen students, prescreened for mental…
Jesus, the Anti-Hero
This was originally published on Matthew Barlow’s blog on December 27, 2012. … Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary I’ve had a few back and forth duels on facebook about gun control, mostly sparked over a few things that I posted. I didn’t necessarily mean for these posts to be inflammatory or controversial, it…
Who Took The Purpose Out of Science? (Nagel, Cobb, Whitehead & Teleology)
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is…
Richard Wolff Explains The Delusion of Regulation
Broadly defined, the government intervenes economically by regulating the economic interactions among and between enterprises and individuals. It does this by taxing their activities (earning income, owning wealth, spending money, and so on) and by making rules governing those activities. However, the real contents and effects of government regulations depend on the interests that govern their design and implementation….
The Greatest Work of Art Ever Created | Work by Emilie Halpern
Currently I believe in Christ because of the aesthetics of the Christ event. That is, the who Christ was and is — the life that Jesus led as recorded in the Gospels, the things he taught, and ultimately his death that brought and end to all primitive religious sacrifice — is so compellingly beautiful that…
Money-Theism: Joerg Rieger Explains How Economics is an Odd Sort of Religion
Part of the problem with the current economic crisis is that economics is based on an odd sort of faith, expressed tongue in cheek by the term “money-theism,” which has been popularized by comedian Stephen Colbert. There are a few big faith claims, like the ideas that economic deregulation always promotes growth, that tax cuts for powerful corporations…
Unemployment & Welfare: “Why can’t they just go out and find a job?”
“But you must just answer a last question. Two equally old trees are growing in a large garden. One of the trees grows in a sunny spot and has plenty of good soil and water. The other tree grows in poor soil in a dark spot. Which of the trees do you think is bigger?…
To Sell Art for Profit is to Deny It’s Worth: Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones & Pirates
“Others, like the label Records on Ribs, have developed a model of supporting artists and raising their profile (because, isn’t that sort of what a record label should be passionate about?) that allows anyone to download new music for free, and then offers them the chance to donate what they think is appropriate for it….
Origianl Poem: Hope, Sorrow & True Love
The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright tomorrow: Yet it is almost joy, since their despair Is but hope blinded by tears, and clear Above the storm the heavens wait to be seen. But greater sorrow from less love has never been, And to mistake lack…