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December 2016

December 02, 2016

Be just as we face corruption

Toynbee’s paradigm, that the collapse of a civilization begins when the creative minority is replaced...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

Strategies for Survival After a Drastic Drop in Income

The normal human living group throughout all history, from hunting and gathering societies to the...

November 09, 2016

We Need a “Diverse Majority” Party

Melinda was thinking about this; I suggested the name. Obviously we are dealing with a...

November 03, 2016

It’s Not Just About Trump: Unteachability Is a Mental Illness

Let’s look at what IQ means. It is not an innate, unchangeable trait. It is...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Are You Living in a State of Delusion?

George Gurdjieff, among others, pointed out that the vast majority of humans live in a...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Agnostic Jewish Paganism—and Other New Religions

Yes, I am all three of those; how I define them makes them compatible. That...

August 19, 2016

On Metamethodology in Religious Studies: For John Morehead

John, I very much appreciate your calm and well-informed response to my earlier blog entitled...

August 15, 2016

The Jewish Cemetery in Paris, Texas

Two blocks from our house on Pine Bluff. Found by accident. Gravestones dated in the...

August 02, 2016

Some Instructions to Follow

When my Ethics class was about to get to the unit on Virtue Ethics, I...

August 01, 2016

On the Moral Implications of the Bell Curve

I spend about as much time as any other well-informed person being concerned about the...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why I Am Thoroughly Pissed Off at Jill Stein

It’s really because of my mother. I have told parts of her story before; I...

July 30, 2016

Jill Stein, you are betraying the Jewish people—and the rest of humanity—because Trump is a Nazi.

Everything you are doing and saying makes it a little more possible that this pathological...

July 17, 2016

Diana, Bathing

Soon after my abrupt and spectacular expulsion from being a Catholic at age 14, I...

July 11, 2016

The Gospels Are Inherently Anti-Semitic. Deal With It.

Mark was a literary genius. He invented the “gospel” as a new literary genre. That...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

A Major Step Toward Justice: Have the courage to tell people their beliefs are immoral

I am here entering the URL for the article. My essay is beneath it.

June 14, 2016

Why Churches Are Withering Away, Part I

Leslie White predicted this back in the 1950s. He could already see it happening, because...

June 13, 2016

But When I’m Talking to a Nazi, I Have No Doubt that I’m Jewish

In response to a blog I posted a while back entitled, “So Am I Jewish?”...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

The Art of Creating Religion. Part I

I am willing to entertain the nondisprovable hypothesis that our religions are inspired by the...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

So Am I Jewish?

In early December Melinda was on Ancestry.com, trying to track down her Cherokee ancestors, the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Can I Teach Again? Would Anyone Listen?

Recently a brilliant woman doctoral student picked me, apparently by intuition, out of the hundreds...

February 29, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part II

Interestingly, the problem of good and evil exhibits the same structure as the problem of...

February 28, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part I

A dialog about whether the Gods are infinite or not sometimes begins with “Gerald Gardner...

February 27, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part IV

Returning to the issue of partitioning DHs from NDHs. A concept similar to Gurdjieff’s Partition...

February 26, 2016

If Bernie is not nominated, we must vote for Hillary; we must stop Trump

Some “Berniecrats” are proclaiming that if Bernie does not win the nomination, they will not...

February 25, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part III

Returning to the question of how the Divine can protect us without damaging our free...

February 23, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part II

The eccentric Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff, thinking about the contentious interface between “science” and “religion,”...

February 22, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part I

The subgenre of philosophy called epistemology is concerned with what we know—or think we know—and...

February 14, 2016

Sam Wagar’s The Uses of Ecstasy is a masterpiece

It is easily one of the ten most important books ever written about the Craft...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

My Current Titles Are Now Available on Kindle

Getting them on there has been a technical problem. More precisely, it has been me...

January 02, 2016

It is encouraging to receive good reviews

It is a pleasant surprise to find that someone has been saying good things about...

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