As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…
Martin LeFevre
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Talking to an unorthodox chaplain at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia recently, he stated his faith in that there is a higher intelligence operating in and on…
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It’s a lazy summer afternoon, and at the only sandy ‘beach’ in Lower Park, a big group of parents and children frolic in the water.
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There are so many spiritual teachers now, mostly of a Buddhist or New Age stripe (it’s become difficult to tell the difference) that it’s contrarian to use the word religious.…
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A recent comment by President Obama on the Jay Leno show exemplifies the basic philosophical error of his presidency, and a central reason why Americans make so many reasonable people…
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An old philosophical canard refers to ‘the ghost in the machine’—consciousness in the brain. Philosophers don’t believe in ghosts, but most sure do believe in machines.
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Meditations – If the situation with Russia gets any worse, millennials may start building bomb shelters again. As the New York Times says, “The dispute over Mr. Snowden is less a singular…
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Black holes have become synonymous with man-made darkness, vortices sucking people into an abyss of disorder and despair from which there is no escape. But cosmically, and perhaps comically, black…