Archive for July, 2005

Religions As Software

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Maybe I’m just a nerd, but I love computer metaphors. Maybe the real reason these metaphors are usually so juicy though is because computers are actually a metaphor for us, and how we work. After all, we did invent them, so there must be something in them that reflects back on us. This little graphic […]

The Filter of Belief

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

One of my all-time greatest “pet peeves” with regards to the New Age movement and pop spirituality is this tenacious teaching that “Belief creates reality.” For some reason, this idea just won’t die, no matter how easy it is to disprove. And it’s so bloody easy to show that it’s wrong that I’m not even […]

Socrates The Trickster

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

I might have been a bit premature in my earlier assumptions that the main paths of philosophy in the West are Plato and Aristotle. There is another: Socrates. But I think a lot of people don’t really recognize what his true function is. To me, he seems to play the role formerly reserved to trickster […]