Globalization and God – Part II
From Globalization and God – Part II: “A longer-term and more extensive view [than popular media exposes] suggests that present-day displays of religious fervor are a result of the successful process of secularism, not a sign of its decline. What we are witnessing is the rearguard reaction to the threat of modernity and globalization. It [...]
He had it coming
An evolutionary psychologist at the University of Arkansas has a goal, which, according to a Broward-Palm Beach New Times artitlce, entitled, “The God Fossil,” “is nothing less than to prove to the world, once and for all, that God is a “cognitive illusion” — a figment of our imaginations.” He says, “My meaning in life [...]
What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28
Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving pictures:
That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]
Student Speaks With God
Justin Kinney, a freshman at Green Mountain College, didn’t expect to have a very busy Tuesday evening, and as he lay in bed, he decided that everything seemed to go just as expected. The pizza in the cafeteria was too soggy; he had previously seen that particular episode of The Simpsons; and he didn’t even [...]
Wrasslin’ With God
For my independent study in Philosophy of Technology, I’m reading Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium, by Albert Borgman. Of the books I’ve read so far for the class, this is easily the most engaging (apart from Heidegger, but that’s only because I seem to be ridiculously [...]
