Blogs Posts on "Scepticism"

More Tim Minchin by In Defence of Reason on Nov 10, 2009...

Internet Marketing Insights by Web-Work At Home on Sep 17, 2009For the example of Internet marketing for individuals and in broad terms, there are two groups of Internet users: those who surf the web for the latest mod cons and gossip and those who use the Internet for opportunities to make a living from working...

Darwinism:What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 4) by xenophon-19 on Aug 1, 2009Looking now at altruism we will assume that we can have free will, and will be asking the next question, which is – can our choices be moral? The two conditionals I will look at are: if we are only the result of natural selection, altruism is an il...

Brown is a spittiing image of 1996 Major by xenophon-19 on Jul 31, 2009Our Dear Leader Gordon, has been likened to another man who faced his political downfall with little more than a feeble gasp, John Major in 1996. Like Major’s Spitting Image caricature, Brown is grey, muddled, and facing the political void wi...

Brown is a spitting image of 1996 Major by xenophon-19 on Jul 31, 2009Our Dear Leader Gordon, has been likened to another man who faced his political downfall with little more than a feeble gasp, John Major in 1996. Like Major’s Spitting Image caricature, Brown is grey, muddled, and facing the political void wi...

Twatted by twitter by xenophon-19 on Jul 29, 2009Dave Cameron says twitter is for twats, so what? He’s hardly a sweary fucking bastard now is he? He doesn’t like twitter. On the other hand Labour apparatchiks have issued a guide to help ministers understand how to use Twitter. They jus...

The Bastards are are still troughing by xenophon-19 on Jul 28, 2009Well, well, well, the hacks over at the Daily Torygraph are a tenacious little bunch aren’t they? seems like our holidaying MPs are still finding ways to keep their noses in the taxpayer-funded trough. The little tinkers have devised a new sche...

Let’s have free speech in art, but don’t annoy the muslims by xenophon-19 on Jul 26, 2009Now, regular readers of this blog will know I’m very much a libertarian – I believe in free speech up to the point until it becomes incitement to commit crime – all else is fair enough, and the power to offend someone should not be...

How to PWN a Gucci Socialist by xenophon-19 on Jul 26, 2009I’m an occasional poster on an obscure interweb forum whose name I won’t mention, where there’s a fair amount of disagreement about current world events. One poster in particular is a sanctimonious poseur socialist, who owns three h...

Darwinism: What does it mean for “responsibility” and “altruism”? (Part 3) by xenophon-19 on Jul 25, 2009This leads us onto the next divide on the scope of Darwinism, dualism/materialism and the problem of determinism. In both above views of materialism, humans are only products of forces that existed before us, so we cannot be responsible. The implicat...