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The Parable Of An Atheist At A Temple
As I sit writing this I have just finished a three day retreat at a Buddhist monastary nested in the moutains outside of Gyeongju, South Korea. While there I woke up at 4 a.m., chanted, spent several...
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Using Music As A Meditation Aid
I’ve always thought meditation should be carried out in as much silence as possible, and that’s how I’ve always meditated. Today, however, I tried meditating with some ambient music in the background....
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Sam Harris on Death, I.
(Rough) Outline The reality of death and what it means (00:00 – 20:00) What is now? (21:30 – 25:00) Shifting perception and a small experiment (27:30 – 37:00) Consciousness and experience (37:30 –...
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Atheism’s Bad Arguments: Who Designed The designer?
Atheists have bad arguments, too. Consider the perennial favorite “if God created everything, then who created God”? The supposedly fatal infinite regress (IR) has appeared in the writing of atheist...
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Peripatesis: Suffering And The Self, Hannibal v. Longus In Northern Italy.
‘Peripatesis’ is a made-up word related to the word ‘peripatetic’, which is an adjective that means ‘roaming’ or ‘meandering’. I’ve always liked to think of knowledge as a huge structure through which...
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Religious People Are Wrong (And So Are Most Atheists).
I believe that there is a mistake being made on both sides of the theism/atheism debate, one that is made as often in the former camp as in the latter. It is the idea that if the experiences people...
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My Epistemic Status as of the end of 2015
The following is a list of things I learned or became more convinced of in 2015: * The Christian god is real, and so are all the others, just not outside anyone’s head. Almost everyone I’ve ever come...
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Using a Mantra Stack
For a couple of months now I have been experimenting with different protocols for designing mantras and visualization exercises, combining them into ‘stacks’ like one might do with nootropics, and...
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Literary Criticism as Applied Apophenia
Growing up I had far more books than friends, and have been writing regularly since I was about seventeen. In high school I was a voracious reader of “the classics”; with the lamp on late into the...
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Pebble Form Ideologies
(Epistemic Status: Riffing on an interesting thought in a Facebook comments thread, mostly just speculation without any citations to actual research) My friend Jeffrey Biles — who is an indefatigable...
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Does Biology Drive ‘Pebble Formation’ in Ideologies?
In ‘pebble form ideologies‘ I advanced the idea that over time information topologies degrade into much smaller ‘pebble forms’ which are are recognizably religious in nature, and I stipulated that part...
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Under An Open Sky
When I was in Korea I used to wait until it was raining out to go hiking. Because most people abhor this kind of weather I would have the whole mountainside to myself. Sometimes I would pause and watch...
View ArticleSam Harris on Death, I.
(Rough) Outline The reality of death and what it means (00:00 – 20:00) What is now? (21:30 – 25:00) Shifting perception and a small experiment (27:30 – 37:00) Consciousness and experience (37:30 –...
View ArticleAtheism’s Bad Arguments: Who Designed The designer?
Atheists have bad arguments, too. Consider the perennial favorite “if God created everything, then who created God”? The supposedly fatal infinite regress (IR) has appeared in the writing of atheist...
View ArticlePeripatesis: Suffering And The Self, Hannibal v. Longus In Northern Italy.
‘Peripatesis’ is a made-up word related to the word ‘peripatetic’, which is an adjective that means ‘roaming’ or ‘meandering’. I’ve always liked to think of knowledge as a huge structure through which...
View ArticleReligious People Are Wrong (And So Are Most Atheists).
I believe that there is a mistake being made on both sides of the theism/atheism debate, one that is made as often in the former camp as in the latter. It is the idea that if the experiences people...
View ArticleSam Harris on Death, I.
(Rough) Outline The reality of death and what it means (00:00 – 20:00) What is now? (21:30 – 25:00) Shifting perception and a small experiment (27:30 – 37:00) Consciousness and experience (37:30 –...
View ArticleAtheism’s Bad Arguments: Who Designed The designer?
Atheists have bad arguments, too. Consider the perennial favorite “if God created everything, then who created God”? The supposedly fatal infinite regress (IR) has appeared in the writing of atheist...
View ArticlePeripatesis: Suffering And The Self, Hannibal v. Longus In Northern Italy.
‘Peripatesis’ is a made-up word related to the word ‘peripatetic’, which is an adjective that means ‘roaming’ or ‘meandering’. I’ve always liked to think of knowledge as a huge structure through which...
View ArticleReligious People Are Wrong (And So Are Most Atheists).
I believe that there is a mistake being made on both sides of the theism/atheism debate, one that is made as often in the former camp as in the latter. It is the idea that if the experiences people...
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