Tolerance is tricky when it comes to applying it to our daily living. As a humanist, I find myself struggling to keep my compass oriented toward goodness while trying to differentiate between ‘wanting’ good and ‘imposing’ it. There is also this incentive to check my moral outrage from aligning with bigots who can use myContinue reading “The Tolerance Paradox”
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Beyond Science?
Humanity’s singular gift to itself, Science, the systematic pursuit of knowledge through cumulative faculties of observation and experiment, is not an institution but a method – a disciplined way of knowing that transcends cultures and epochs. At its core, science is a neutral compass: observe, hypothesize, test, falsify, refine. It does not care for values,Continue reading “Beyond Science?”
Dissonance-led Deconversion
Some beliefs hold on to us, even after we have dropped them, simply because we grew up with them. Also because the people closest to us hold on to them. These are organised in cohorts of functional heuristics that are deeply entrenched into our psyches. Fear-based admonishment is one such embedded belief- retention premise. DeliberatelyContinue reading “Dissonance-led Deconversion”
The Bleerbet…
Science, pseudoscience and irrationality compete for a chunk of our worldview at a memetic level. There is a sociological Darwinian utility for irrationality because its inherent quirkiness allows for profligate variations of genetic options. If behavior was binary, based on true logic, then there is a limited outcome of inter- and intraspecies dynamics. The downer,Continue reading “The Bleerbet…”
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