In arguing about the existence of God, people have invoked a great number of different lines of reasoning.
For my money, the idea that morality cannot exist without God and the threat of eternal punishment is perhaps the lamest of them all, for the reason provided in the meme here.
This is funny, but it makes an important point: it’s wrong to throw away things that have value to other people.
When the intensity of my business career vanished about a decade ago, I gave away four suits, and at least 50 ties. I’d like to believe that somewhere there’s a guy who has a look that says “Craig Shields, 2008.”
Good people support the thrift store economy–on the grounds of both humanitarianism and environmentalism. Every item enjoying a new life means that a new item doesn’t come into being, with all the resources associated with it.
Here are some useful tips about book covers.
My first two books were #1 Amazon best-sellers in their respective categories, meaning that they both sold a few hundred or perhaps a thousand copies on a certain day.
Needless to say, it never occurred to me to make a big deal about my name on the subsequent covers.
We need to concede the fact that we live among a vast population of hateful morons, and that there is absolutely nothing that can be done to change that.
Ever since it became clear to most Americans and virtually everyone else around the world that Trump was essentially a criminal, I’ve been predicting that people all over the globe will be dancing in the streets once he meets justice.
California is a great place to live and work, and here’s one of the reasons: most of the industrial development focuses on the betterment of our lives.
Good cartoon here.
Few people believe in hell; this is fortunate because as Bertrand Russell pointed out, speaking of the defects of Christ’s character, no truly compassionate person can believe in eternal punishment.
That notwithstanding, the fortune-teller has nailed Trump’s first two stops.
Silicon Valley icon Vivek Wadhwa makes an excellent point here.
The problem, however, is late-stage, unregulated capitalism and the greed that it has hammered into our society. There are people who do things for altruistic reasons, and Wadhwa happens to be one of them, but by far the most powerful force driving our behavior is the need to make money, whether that means keeping our heads above water or buying our fourth mansion.
Forty years ago, we lived with the myth of trickle-down economics, or “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Now, only idiots believe that–not that there is a scarcity of idiots. Note the MAGA crowd and their outrage at taxing billionaires.
In any case, as much as I’d like to believe otherwise, we don’t seem headed for “new heights” as a civilization.
One has to suspect that what Nietzsche said here is true of a great number of Trump supporters, if only because the Big Lie is so preposterous. More than 60 courts of law reviewed the election results, and found no evidence of substantial voter fraud, but they’re all, every one of them, corrupt?
It’s (note spelling) sad indeed that talent is no longer necessary for success in the music business, but it should come as a surprise to no one that industry executives have capitalized on the degraded tastes of modern society.
