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You have to wonder, why is there so much antisemitism in the world? Some claim it’s a holdover from the Christian Middle Ages, but hatred of the Jews predates the Christian era. The book of Acts in the New Testament speaks of Emperor Claudius kicking the Jews out of the city of Rome. Pagan Rome…
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I’ve finished reading the book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, the creator of the television show The Good Place. It could be titled Secular Ethics Philosophy for Dummies. It is an easy read and I’ve read about a third of it. But as the alternate title I gave suggest, it doesn’t touch the…
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In all honesty I have to admit that I’m not Pro-Life, I’m Anti-Abortion. I think it’s important that we stop hiding behind euphemisms that we think will be more acceptable to the public. I think those who say they’re Pro-Choice should admit they are not Pro-Choice. Many of them don’t believe a law-abiding citizen should…
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This is my second post on thoughts of abortion. The Pro-Life movement owes a debt of gratitude, surprisingly enough, to the philosopher Peter Singer. You might recognize him as the ethicist (and I use that term loosely) who gave the case for infanticide. My saying this will cause a lot of castigation from most of…
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This is the first of a series of three thoughts on abortion. A modern-day philosopher named Judith Javis Thompson has the reputation of giving scenarios of ethical dilemmas. She’s the one credited with the infamous trolly scenario. Here’s another one for you to consider. It’s known as the violinist scenario. You wake up in the…
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I’ve been finding myself watching more and more classic shows. Be it television or movies. The main reason for doing so is because of the extremely poor quality of writing that is coming out of Hollywood these days. Anyways I found myself rewatching Rope the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie. The way he filmed it was…
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Most Americans when asked if they believe there’s intelligent life somewhere else in the universe will give an enthusiastic yes. They will site that with all the billions of stars in the Milky Way and with the trillion of galaxies in the universe the odds prove there has to be life out there and intelligent…
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I’ve recently watched the old HBO film Conspiracy. It’s a reenactment of the Wannsee Conference. Having personally experienced several bureaucratic meetings I would have thought this would be one of the most boring movies ever made, but it was riveting. This was the conference where the SS hammered out the “Final Solution to the Jewish…
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Albert Einstein hated Quantum Mechanics. He didn’t mind the field of study, but he felt the methods were lacking since a probabilistic model was used, and he believed only deterministic models could and should express nature. It was because of his dislike of Quantum Mechanics probability model he gave his famous statement, “God does not…
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I’ve been watching the television show Fargo for the last few weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous seasons with all the quirky characters and unusual stories. I was really looking forward to this season since it was starring Juno Templeton and I’ve become a fan after seeing her in Ted Lasso. But I have to…
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There is a tendency by many in the West to judge Islam by the life of Mohammad rather than the words he gave in the Koran. Finally, someone asked, “Should we listen only to his words ignoring his weaknesses and foibles, or allow only his actions to speak?” The answer, like so many things, is…