“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair”… The words Percy Shelley places on Ozymandias’ pedestal are so easy to recall. They seem to hold a resonance that fits into so many spaces, places and times. They certainly came to mind when stopping to wander through this once-grand old home. Did the person who owned this ever ponder just what their…
Do Libertarians really understand their position?
Anarchy in the United State of America is most often found in the form of “Libertarianism”. That word may not actually exist but the fact that i have written it provides a historical basis for fact and a precedent that can be used as a (rather insipid) excuse for building a bigger statement of fact… Stay with me, i am…
And on the 7th day, Man created God
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There is no attribute of God which is not either borrowed from the passions and powers of the mind, or which is not a negation. Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Infinity, Immutability, Incomprehensibility, and Immateriality, are all words that designate properties and powers peculiar to organised beings, with the addition of negations, by which the idea of limitation is excluded. An oft-quoted…
God vs. Science
Here is an email doing the rounds at the moment. It’s very well written and well worth a read… GOD vs. Science A science professor begins his school year with a lecture to the students, ‘Let me explain the problem science has with religion.’ The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new…
Is Honesty Enough?
The year is 1944. You and i are strangers to each other, yet we huddle close, oblivious to our nakedness, and that of the multitude waiting with us, in precise lines leading to dull and utilitarian looking barracks. You don’t know me and i don’t know you – yet we are both in line, trembling and shivering not just from…