Category Archives: Core thought

Flat Earther kryptonite

Posted on September 23, 2020 by

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind. I’ll let you make your own mind up.

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Escaping the ‘sewer of realities’

Posted on September 9, 2020 by

[edit 10Sep2020 — following a comment by Russellings of the Spirit (below), I feel that I ought to point out that in order to make sense of my post here, you really do need to first watch this video clip. … Continue reading →

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Naked Truth

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

Originally posted on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown:
His truths are vile graffiti scrawled in charcoal on a wall, your belief in them, immobile—not budgeable at all. You spout online rhetoric not based on any fact, using a…

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The First 100 Days …

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
If a president serves his entire four-year term, he will have been president for 1,459 days.  The first 100 days are some sort of a marker, though they are less than 15% of his…

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An open letter to all billionaires, everywhere

Posted on September 5, 2020 by

Dear Sir or Madam, In August 2020, Jeff Bezos became the richest man on the planet. Not only that, but he became the first person ever to exceed a personal wealth of US$200 billion (and that during a pandemic, too, … Continue reading →

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The illusion of free will

Posted on August 31, 2020 by

First, watch this: Having watched it, you may now have an idea what the ‘many worlds’ hypothesis is about. Focusing on the Schrödinger’s Cat example: when the box is opened, the universe splits into two; one in which the cat … Continue reading →

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Our way of life is killing us

Posted on August 30, 2020 by

It’s all about externalities. The price we pay for things rarely, if ever, reflects its true cost. Forests are vital for our survival – but that’s not stopping greedy supermarkets and fast food companies burning them down for profit. We … Continue reading →

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Planet of The Idiots: a lecture by Carl Sagan

Posted on August 26, 2020 by

Disclaimer: this lecture is actually entitled ‘The Age of Exploration’, but I think my title is more appropriate. Let’s make a planet in which nobody is starving. Let’s make a planet in which men and women have equal access to … Continue reading →

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How Western civilisation could collapse

Posted on August 24, 2020 by

I stumbled on a really interesting article on Pocket the other day. It bore a note at its foot: This post originally appeared on BBC Future and was published April 18, 2017. This article is republished here with permission. So, … Continue reading →

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We’re fucked

Posted on August 22, 2020 by

If we knew an asteroid were to hit the Earth on a certain day and wipe us out, we would mobilize every scientist, bureaucrat, CEO and soldier planet-wide to deal with it. Well, an equivalent disaster is headed our way, … Continue reading →

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