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"His voting record proves that he is firmly pro-life... and pro-gun."- Randy Neugebauer, Texas Congress Republican websitehttp://randyforcongress.com/issues/

Rational Understanding of Human Nature

There are people who believe human nature to be any number of things, ranging from economic self-interest to collective action for benefit of humanity to supporting life on earth. To have a rightful understanding of what it is that one serves one needs to have a full picture...

Nirvana for senior men, an artist's solution

While pharmaceutical manufacturers are having a hay day catering to the needs of senior men with prescriptions for pills, artist David Hammons may have come up with a much better idea. You see senior men have...

Olympia Snowe Republicans and a Biophilic Alliance

The Olympia Snowe Republicans were the yuppies and entrepreneurs of 1980s and 1990s. These people were attracted to the Republican Party for its promise of economic opportunity. After seeing the economy thrive under Clinton and fail under Bush, and after seeing the Republican...

Finite multiverse or designed universe; you choose reality

According to multiple award winning scientist George Ellis, we presently have a choice between views of reality: a finite self-generating multiverse a purposefully designed life-generating single finite universe If you look carefully above, the keyword common to both...

Resolutions: Please resolve not to live your life vicariously

As we go through our daily lives, we face our daily annoyances and the obstacles that stand between us and the direction we would like our lives to take. Overtime, many of us are worn down by day to day grind ...

Shaving is Living: Lose the beard & try slowing it down this year

“Shaving” no longer suggests what it once did. At best, modern shaving is defined by hyper-kinetic commercials that morph razors into race cars and jet planes while ripple-ly muscled men in towels yank swishy...

Altruism, Self-Interest, and Reason

There are some in Christianity who throw into question the idea that altruistic action is good out of the consideration that such action can be pleasurable, rewarding or fulfilling to the self. My response is that such action should be pleasurable, rewarding, and fulfilling...

Youth, Commitment and Life-Owning Lies

The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to...

Three Aspects of Human Nature and Human Interest

A being that has evolved as himself, as part of his species, and as part of life, will naturally have orientation toward all three of the preceding. It will be natural for man to care about himself, about humanity and about life. All three interests will be rational function...

Life, sad Zuniverse, and Everything ;)

A goddess is:1. when u both feel Wonderful w/ each other2. when u both believe in each other as mates3. when u both believe in each other's dreams i can't believe it took me 49 YEARS to reach that realization he.. How many 'bad relationships' (based/founded on inappropriate...

"Traditional values" and creeping totalitarianism

Ron Paul states in one of his position papers:"A poor, dependent and divided population is much easier to rule than a nation of self-confident individuals who can make a living on their own and who share the traditions and values that this country was founded...

fundamental life-bearing properties of the electron and proton

Please forgive this sort of article; i love physics and raising awareness about it but.. At this time in human history, physics seems secondary to all the issues we're facing.. The previous article comparing...

God is a lady engineer

Most religions 'lay claim' to God, describing God in a unique way relating to them. Fine for religions; bad for science. Historically, science has pulled away from religion and God in an attempt to understand nature / the universe without It. All well and good but if God had...

Full Circle Baby: Where did the time even go?

The year was 1981. Remember 1981? That first burst of the go-go eighties? Back In 1981 the odd term “internet” was first mentioned, Microsoft released an operating system, a bunch of air traffic controllers...

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