Gene Roddenberry: The Star Trek Philosophy

In celebration of the DVD release of J.J. Abrams' reboot of the classic Star Trek franchise I thought that it would be cool to share some thoughts from the creator of the original Star Trek.....

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Gears In A Big Deterministic Physical Machine Or Random Swerving?

From David Sosa ( ), The University Of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy, Professor and Chair PhD, Princeton

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I was a feminazi-hating, liberal-bashing loudmouth who tried to befriend Bill O'Reilly. Man, I was such a douche Every day I wake up with the same thought: "I used to be such a goddamned idiot."

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If you have seen this in an email circulating the wires, ignore the email. Here is the source.

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When her Daily Mail column about Stephen Gately's death provoked an avalanche of complaints, the disgraced Jan Moir issued a press statement in which she said "it was never [her] intention" to upset people. Defensively speaking, Moir's choice of words was astute.

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David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the "hard problem" of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no …

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In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

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Karl L LeMarcs, Great Britain's self -styled Dark Philosopher and Quantum Theorist, has a few things to say about Human Consciousness.

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Throughout the health care debate, the majority of Americans have expressed their opposition and frustration with the president and his Democratic Congress' radical proposals.

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It is as simple as this: the big banks have too much economic power and too much political power to be compatible with our economic security or political democracy. Either alone is sufficient justification for breaking them up. Together, it makes it imperative. We can do it.

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This article discusses the scientific status of Intelligent Design by delving into the philosophy of science. It then recommends a course of action for the Intelligent Design movement.

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Life, Love and Truth - What's Death Got to Do With It?

This post isn't about the next life – we'll discuss that later. Rather, this is about the doorway called death, and what it affirms about life, love and truth.

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Business lessons from the Garden.

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Supernatural beliefs about mind, morality and the self are losing plausibility as naturalistic explanations gain traction. In response, supernaturalists argue that gaps in these explanations are evidence for the failure of naturalism.

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In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in the wabe.

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By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.

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Existence & Information VS "GOD"

Eternal Existing Informational Universe:

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Philip D. Hansten's New Book, Published by Philoponus Press, Explores Premature Factulation—its Origins, Manifestations, and Prevalence—and Ways to Recognize and Avoid the Ignorance of Certainty

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UNiversal Truth VS.Reality

On one of my recent posts...someone made a reference to universal truth and in that context..it would seem a good time to discuss it.

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In his new book, The Barbaric Heart:Faith, Money and the Crisis of Nature, author Curtis White proposes a unique, philosophical theory about mainstream environmentalism suggesting that spritual beauty and the arts will guide us to the solutions we seek.

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The Music of Life by Dr Rex Dexter

The chorus of the Cicadas, at 'rest' for seventeen years, now joins, blending, rising, falling… with the evening breezes, shifting the staccato patterns of leaf and blade, mixing with the rain & living waters, the heartbeats and footfalls of the M …

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Young philosopher Daniel June's tautalogical credo: new voice for his generation.

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The rise...the fall...the rise

I don't remember the last time I met myself; the feeling to know what I am feeling is lost long ago; I do not recognize the rhythm that beats inside me; the vision to see beyond this skin has vanished somewhere.

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Survive

Should the world survive, and I think it will, it is going to require unprecedented unification, understanding and intelligence.

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Some people try to say that a majority vote is as close as you can reasonably get to consensual government, and therefore free society, but they're wrong.

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