Posts matching tags 'teleology'
2003/2/14
2003/2/14
Idea to ponder: believing in conspiracy theories as explanations of events is similar to believing in a god or gods. Both are products of the human tendency to ascribe intelligent design and planning to patterns and complex phenomena, an instinctive bias part of the human psychological makeup.
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Am standing in a chapel of some sort watching Valgeir Siguresson and ensemble. Quite atmospheric. (17/5)
At home, though on way out to see Valgeir Sigurðsson soon (17/5)
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Waits for Disk Utility to finish unfux0ring his iPod (17/5)
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2007/5/15
Arizona sherriff Joe Arpaio, who has won acclaim from law-and-order types and opprobrium from liberals by keeping prisoners in harsh conditions, is now bidding to add heiress, serial unlicensed hazardous driver and all-round waste of oxygen2006/5/17
Web 2.0 photo-sharing site Flickr has finally made it out of beta . Of course, it didn't do anything quite as gauche and pre-Web-2.0 as declaring itself to be a final release, so instead, it has2003/5/16
Rational Ministries could well be the next Time Cube . He goes on about communism (in a quasi-religious sort of way, mixed in with bits of Wagnerian Viking mysticism), LSD, sex and psychiatric medication, expounds