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The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Enter the illusionists. The most lucid and committed among them is Keith Frankish, who embraces ‘strong illusionism’. According to Frankish, “phenomenal consciousness, as usually conceived, is illusory”. More to the poi...

The Illusion of Illusionism Raymond Tallis sees through a physicalist confusion. Enter the illusionists. The most lucid and committed among them is Keith Frankish, who embraces ‘strong illusionism’. According to Frankish, “phenomenal consciousness, as usually conceived, is illusory”. More to the poi...

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Worlds Apart [To Verdener] Mother: You’re walking on a razor’s edge. Sara: I know. No, really, drawn and quartered in a way I suspect that I understand but I suspect few others here do. The Elder: Sara, you know that fornicators offend the purity of Jehovah. If you choose carnal lust, you choose th...

Worlds Apart [To Verdener] Teis: It’s so weird. You actually believe in God? Sara: It’s weirder not to believe. Too close to call? Teis: So if the doctor can only save you by giving you blood, you still say no? Even if you know you may die? Sara: Yes, if your faith is strong. Jehovah says you shoul...

Logic “We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be a...

Based on a true story. Yet another glimpse inside the world of religious faith. This time Jehovah’s Witnesses. But are they all the same when push comes to shove? It’s a world in which what you believe pales next to the fact that you believe in whatever that might happen to be. It’s a world of ritua...

Philosophy “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” René Descartes Well, in a free will world, anyway. “The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.” Thich Nhat Hanh What particular t...

The Last Detail Meadows: If you’re Catholic, do you think it’s, uh, sacrilegious to chant? Buddusky: Did it get you laid? Meadows: No. Buddusky: Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for? Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pa...

How do I refute nihilism? from the Quora site. TheGrapeThief Humans, by default, resist change. Change begins with questioning what is already there, so questioning things is often feared by humans on a primal level as a sign of change, something we, again, fear on a primal level. However, questioni...

Lyrics John Prine There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say? This Mortal Coil The jeweler has a shop on the corner of the boulevard...

You, of course, are not obligated to believe any of this. The bare minimum of what I am shooting for is for you to at least be open-minded to the fact that I am merely trying to give you a tentative insight into what God might possibly be. Click. For those here who do believe in a God, the God, my ...

I was in the military for three years. That’s not a prerequisite here but it does facilitate a better understanding of what you are up against when everything revolves around “following orders”. And [this being Jack Nicholson following them] stretching the meaning of that almost to the breaking poin...