New Testament Apocrypha are fascinating… The New Testament apocrypha are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. These writings often have links with the books generally regarded as “canonical” but Christian denominations disagree…
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Does your behavior change when it has been predicted? Then you are acting in accordance with reflexivity: Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects. In…
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The other day, I saw Lysander Spooner referred to as a founder of libertarianism in America. Though it isn’t true, it is complimentary of a guy who is on my two favorite shirts and regularly featured in Links above. Who was he? Americans should know the abolitionist, post-office-startin’, non-violent, practicing deist: Lysander Spooner (January 19,…
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Or, why Seattle is doomed in the next 50 years or so… The Cascadia subduction zone (also referred to as the Cascadia fault) is a convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern California. It is a very long sloping subduction zone fault that separates the Juan de Fuca and North America…
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Sounds like the best country ever:
Here it is, your wikipedia article of the week.
It isn’t unusual in political discussion to hear someone say “Stop making your personal morality the rule for everyone else!” Besides being the epitome of a cop-out, since all beliefs about how society should be structured are based on a vision of morality, it is important to ponder why some beliefs are seen as morality…
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