My Internet Rants – in Blog Form
Sometimes, a terrible person produces great artwork. Some of those times, I am able to separate the artwork from the artist’s problematic character – but in other situations, I am not able to. In my latest YouTube video, I explain Read more
Classically Abby thinks that in the absence of a real-live Superman, conservatives are the warriors of truth, justice, and the American way. But in reality, they are not the Supermen in this scenario – more like the Lex Luthors.
Let us suppose (hypothetically) that you hired a maid with the expectation that she would clean the place – but instead of cleaning, she would do all kinds of things that made a mess of the place. To make matters worse, let us assume that you did not have the authority to fire her yourself, but needed permission from a board to fire her – and the board was reluctant to approve of such an action.
Now, let us translate this to the scenario that many minority communities in real life face with the police.
My latest YouTube video is a response to allegations that I am being overly aggressive in my criticism of religion. Watch this video on it’s own YouTube page The episode of Paulogia from which the information about the host’s background Read more
Late last year, a web-site called Divided States of Women did a really great video on the topic of confronting our unconscious biases. This is a very important issue in Algorithmic Rationalism and is key to improving our level of Read more
In my most recent vlog episode, I explain why and how Jewish identity does not necessarily have to be about religion. Watch Episode 2 of the Virtual Stoa vlog
The article Why Churches Disbelieve Victims and Believe Pastoral Abusers has a great discussion on the irrational biases that are responsible for so many churches failing to take allegations of abuse by cleargy seriously. While it is far from perfect Read more
Instead of limiting it to just telling those with privilege to check their privileges, progressives should instead ask everyone to check all of the biases that can interfere with their faculty of reason. Anyone who’s spent any length of time Read more
Non-Theistic Psalm no. 4: Composed 2018-02-21 in the afternoon. A Psalm of Sophia recounting being driven from a long-time church at the start of gender transition. Why have those I thought of as friends turned on me? They say that Read more
Non-Theistic Psalm no. 3: Composed 2018-02-18 in the evening. Wise are those who follow reason and logic, Who are not ruled by emotions nor bound to preconceptions, Who keep their minds always open to reality Who always strive to see Read more
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