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  • Mental Self-Sabotage June 20, 2019
  • The Need For Ancient Stories, Even When They Are Barbaric May 6, 2019
  • War on Cops and Mass Incarceration: Do we have a problem? February 12, 2019
  • Everything Matters December 13, 2018
  • Illusion of Self September 17, 2018
  • Your Reality is the Placebo September 6, 2018
  • A Defense of Self-Transcendence July 4, 2018
  • Subverting Rationality (Part 2) June 18, 2018
  • Subverting Rationality (Part 1) June 13, 2018
  • Immigration: The Search for Internal Cohesion May 17, 2018
  • Why Identity Politics Doesn’t Help May 7, 2018
  • 5 Demands for the Left April 19, 2018
  • Using Pragmatism to Reconcile Religion and Science April 12, 2018
  • Concepts as Absolute Truth March 24, 2018
  • How Are Values Formed? February 18, 2018
  • Necessary Illusions: for the secular and religious December 19, 2017
  • Moral Development Through Our Role as Actors November 18, 2017
  • Secular Morality: Is it wrong to indiscriminately chop off heads? October 30, 2017
  • Against Hope October 4, 2017
  • Suffering: Where Humanism Fails September 22, 2017
  • Language: Everything an Interpretation August 30, 2017
  • Capitalism’s Master/Slave Relationship and Hegel’s Dialectic June 23, 2017
  • Managing Death: The Unquenchable Hunger for Meaning June 4, 2017
  • Moral Regression: A Simplistic Rationale for Evil Actions May 19, 2017
  • Why Do People Believe in Gods April 3, 2017
  • Part 2: Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence March 31, 2017
  • Part I: Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence March 10, 2017
  • Character Development: The Nobel Lie February 25, 2017
  • The Illusion of Problems February 4, 2017
  • The 2016 Election: Meritocracy and the Illusions We Believe January 7, 2017
  • Meaning and Purpose: Pre-Determined or Self-Created January 2, 2017
  • Farewell to Truth November 13, 2016
  • Not in my Backyard: The US occupation of Okinawa October 20, 2016
  • Ultimate Meaning and the Danger of William Lane Craig October 18, 2016
  • Self-Awareness and Meaning October 16, 2016
  • Faith and Science: Ways of “Knowing” October 3, 2016
  • Evil and the Hiddenness of God September 10, 2016
  • (no title) August 23, 2016
  • Legislating Morality July 17, 2016
  • The Ethics of Universal Basic Income July 6, 2016
  • The Not So Free-Market Economy June 18, 2016
  • The Resurrection: Fact or Fiction May 10, 2016
  • Moral Rules vs. Social Conventions February 25, 2016
  • Social Immobility February 12, 2016
  • The Illusion of Free Will January 17, 2016
  • The Illusion of Truth January 7, 2016
  • Anatomy of Belief November 21, 2015
  • [Part 2] America’s Immoral Morality: Manifest Destiny Continental Empire, 1828-1898 September 26, 2015
  • (Part I) America’s Immoral Morality: A Sociopathic Foreign Policy of the Founding Fathers September 21, 2015
  • 7 Important Questions for Bible Believing Christians [Part 2] September 7, 2015
  • 7 Important Questions for Bible Believing Christians [Part 1] September 2, 2015
  • Ontology of a Secular Morality August 8, 2015
  • Faith vs. Knowledge July 12, 2015
  • Part 2- New Testament: Literal or Metaphorical June 2, 2015
  • Part I- New Testament: Literal or Metaphorical ? May 30, 2015
  • The Origin of Satan April 13, 2015
  • Is There Such Thing as Reality? March 25, 2015
  • Part II: Where Do Rights Come From? February 4, 2015
  • Part I: Where Do Rights Come From? February 2, 2015
  • Values: On What Basis is a Value Wrong January 24, 2015
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