I wrote about philosophical skepticism elsewhere, but I just noticed this great summation of it’s founder Pyrrho’s basic approach to thinking:
The proper course of the sage, said Pyrrho, is to ask himself three questions. Firstly we must ask what things are and how they are constituted. Secondly, we ask how we are related to […]

Looks like I’m gonna have to sound my bullshit alarm twice in one day. Oh well. Some days are like that I guess. A while ago I posted a very brief piece on a “Christian” “prophet” named Raymond Aguilera. I’m actually kind of embarrassed that this piece got as much attention as it did, because […]

While eating my lunch, I popped on the Christian Broadcasting Network to see what kind of craziness Pat Robertson would have to say about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. More than anything, he seemed kind of perversely excited, practically screaming out “This is real suffering!”
Yeah, the kind that he and his alien overlords feed […]

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Wired has an article about a documentary video which two guys supposedly made undercover which “exposes” the Raelian religious group (some might prefer the word “cult”). The article is a little misleading though. It starts out with talk of wild Raelian sex parties:
Now, rare video footage of the group taken at one of its Las […]