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Grim Tidings
The cosmic secrets of godlessness all wrapped up by a fellow with a Ph.D. writing on the internet
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Sep 20, 2023
The Miracle of Human Ideals in a Cosmic Wasteland
And the shocking misnomer of scientific “laws of…
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Sep 7, 2023
The Myth that Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Go Together
Contrary to maudlin assurances about those three…
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Sep 4, 2023
The Reckoning for Our Routine Suppressions of Epiphany
Reality is the alien hiding in plain sight
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Aug 31, 2023
Mathematicians as Magicians: The Trick Behind their Pompous Formalities
And how positing formal…
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Aug 28, 2023
Noble Lies and the Recurring Withdrawals of Neo-Shamans
The cycle of social compromises and of…
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Aug 24, 2023
How the Ice Age Turbocharged Human Intelligence
And drove our species into refuges from nature’s harsh…
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Jun 26, 2023
The Menace of Nihilism: Whether All Things Come to Nothing
And the golden road from positivism to…
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Jun 16, 2023
Should We Adapt to Mainstream or to Intellectual Environments?
Psychiatry, enlightenment, and the…
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Jun 12, 2023
From Buddhist Serenity to Existential Horror
A philosophical roller coaster with a stop at Kantian…
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Jun 5, 2023
How Society Splinters when Life is Absurd
Four existential coping strategies, and the relevance of…
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