Jon Stewart's team does a great job of editing George W. Bush speeches from five years ago and from recent days. It does seem to be the same speech. Consider this earlier post, and the opening lines from the BBC's terrific documentary: “The Power of Nightmares: The Shadows In The…
I have personally heard this claim from several Christian Fundamentalists. It usually doesn't survive examination. They were raised to the church, had a normal adolescent rebellion and denied everything to do with the authority structure they knew. Then as they matured they experienced the guided hallucination (revelation, dream, epiphany, psychotic…
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I'm in the process of reading Robert Burton's excellent new book: On Being Certain (2008). Burton offers a quote at the beginning of Chapter 3, the chapter being entitled "Conviction isn't a choice." Here's the quote: It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in your head. The accomplishment…
Al Gore said it starkly: it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new dirty coal plants. If you’re a young person, looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now and not done, I believe we’ve reached the stage where…