Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, language, life, media, politics, religion, science, social science, truth, tagged "The End of Faith", Anger, Benediction, bigotry, Dogma, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, experience, fear, hope, Ideals, inauguration, learned set of symbols, loss, President Obama, reciprocal relationship, religion, Sam Harris, selection by consequences, superstition, symbolism of words, traditions, words on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Joseph E. Lowery’s Benediction Transcript @ President Obama’s Inauguration
Can there be any question of the power of words?
Can there be any mystery why the sophisticated symbolism of words binds people to…
Others
Ideals
Fear
Anger
Dogma
Superstition
Loss
Hope?
This learned set of symbols… these words… in whatever language they form… are powerful. Words have a value that connects [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, information theory, politics, science, social science, tagged authority, Baloney Detection System, binary, binary events, churches, CNN.com, consequences, dumbness, ESPN, evil, Good vs. Evil, Milram's Experiments, NFL Countdown, psychology, religion, research, rules are everywhere, science, words are powerful on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary.
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Posted in behavior, religion, tagged blashpemous, catholic, mexico, morals, nudity, playboy, religion, virgin mary on December 15, 2008 | 23 Comments »
CNN and others have reported on the “offense” generated by the Mexican edition of Playboy.
Sanchez: We do. It’s right here. This is from the publisher of the magazine, Raul Sayrols. He says, “The image is not and never was intended to portray the Virgin of Guadalupe,” — which is the Virgin Mary — “The intent [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged abortion, biology, conception, free speech, nidation, politics, religion, reproduction, sex on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kathleen Parker: The abortion gospel according to Pelosi is just wrong
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/OPINION/808280310/
…and various newspapers around the country on 8/29/08
So there are several questions to be considered and answered, if possible, initiated by your swirl around issues of abortion, law and woman’s rights, not the least of which is free speech. Consideration of these type questions [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, information theory, media, politics, tagged Add new tag, behavior, creationism, Darwinism, droll, evolution, freedom of speech, funny, intelligent design, religion, science, victims of logic on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my great friends and confidants has pointed out, in a non-chiding way, that one of my favorite authors, Ben Stein, has been doing and saying some disturbing and annoying things lately. This phase of his career started to get weird with the movie he produced and starred in called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Six [...]
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We all know that if you want to get your point across you need to begin teaching it early and with much fanfare and pomp. Families use holidays and traditions to cement the family unit and the values they collectively hold every time there is a birthday party, birth, wedding or death. Clearly getting [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, tagged comfort zones, consequences, Cosmos, education, ignorance, imagination, magical thinking, myths, Nature, New York Times, obama, religion, science, silliness, superstition, survival, traditions on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Boy, has that a lot of meanings….
But consider this version of ‘cosmos’…
According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that
“…while we moderns see space as a black, cold, mostly empty vastness, with planets and stars propelled by gravitational and other forces, Europeans in the Middle [...]
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Polygamist sect conditioned girls from birth
Washington Times - 1 hour ago
By Valerie Richardson The 16-year-old girl whose phone call led to the massive raid on a West Texas polygamist compound was repeatedly beaten and sexually abused by her much-older husband, according to state documents released yesterday.
Teen mothers reported at polygamist sect’s compound Los Angeles Times
Papers detail [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, decision theory, mason jar, religion, speculation, tagged decision theory, education, faith, grand children, immigration, purpose, relevence, religion, science on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lets consider a dying star. Any dying star.
They are out there you know… dying, forming and changing as assuredly as Earth’s season’s change only their timeline is highly skewed toward the million year epoch.
On a gross level, all those stars out there dying do pretty much similar things when they die. Eventually they turn [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, religion, speculation, tagged barack obama, editorial bias, media, news headlines, obama 2008, obama speech, pew study, race, religion, shift on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John H. Bryant writes:
Behaviorally speaking, what happened when Barack Obama spoke on religion yesterday?For some, like the way I approached the speech and later his presentation, Obama’s speech might have seemed to be about religion… or perhaps the American Black experience… or perhaps the generational tug of our past with what is important to [...]
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David Crystal, Linguist