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Last night (11/25/09) a few of us came together at Borders Books & Music on Kirby, to discuss the contemplative life, the overlapping lessons and...
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Find out more about DT: DT Strain is a humanist minister certified by the American Humanist Association. Former president of the Humanists of Houston, he has written on a wide variety of philosophic topics, including articles for the national journal Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism. DT Strain has also appeared on the Houston PBS television program The Connection. He maintains a personal website, The Humanist Contemplative. |
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Once in a while, when reading, thinking, or hearing some concept or idea, we can have those thrilling moments that send a tingle down our back....
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In his blog, The Tentative Apologist, Randal Rauser claims that within a naturalistic context, there can be no objective measure of ethics, morality,...
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Thinking more on the topic of mortality, I had an idea I thought I'd share. Einstein taught us that time is a dimension, like height, width, and...
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A friend told me last week that he recently, and suddenly, became an atheist - and wished he wasn't... I had seen him move from conservative...
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This is a continuation from [Part 1] There have been some depictions in film which have tried to communicate the concept. In Phenomenon (1996), George...
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This is a continuation from [Part 2] Of course, death will always be dispreferred, and we will do what we can to avoid it and prevent it in others. To...
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Many people have "control issues" but the "issue of control" runs a little deeper, and a little wider. The ancients realized the...
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[continued from part 1] Why did the Stoics approach control in such an absolute way? Consider the following story... Suppose you worked in an office...
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In part 1, we talked about the human desire for retribution. But it is important to take a look at the many ways that bad do people suffer... I will...
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