Thinking and Feeling

Here we are seeing a non-valued duality that some people want to proclaim as valued. There are rationalists who see feeling as an inferior function or mental illness; there also are people who equate rationality with coldness, dryness and nastiness that are not necessary...

Rationalism and Romanticism

There have been many people who have made claims that Romanticism was some kind of pathology or some kind of aberration. In fact Romanticism is a natural successor of rationalism, and for a very simple reason: The rational mind has contempt for nature and feeling until it...

Ricky Gervais: Jesus Pose on New Humanist Cover

Ricky Gervais: 'Blasphemous' Magazine Cover Outlets are already reporting the New Humanist magazine cover featuring Ricky Gervais as "controversial" and "blasphemous". However, New Humanist is geared towards...

Rationalism and Romanticism

There have been many people who have made claims that Romanticism was some kind of pathology or some kind of aberration. In fact Romanticism is a natural successor of rationalism, and for a very simple reason: The rational mind has contempt for nature and feeling until it...

Conservatives and Their Cognitive Dissonance About The Press

I do recommend visiting a right-wing blog(s) once in a while its makes for an interesting study in cognitive dissonance. Their ability to deny reality after looking it in the face is quit a psychological feat....

Pass the Bread

So I have been thinking seriously about what I might say to you in this Baccalaureate service. Frankly, I'm not sure anyone from my generation should be saying anything to your generation except, "We're...

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