[NOTE: This is the substance of a message offered at Spring Friends Meeting this morning, March 5 2023.] “[T ]he one thing about Jesus that can be known with certainty,” wrote the late New Testament scholar William Herzog II, “was that he was executed as an enemy of the state and the Temple.” Yes. We’re … Continue reading Bible Study: Two Subversive Parables
It doesn’t seem there’s any way around it: so far, 2023 is a Big Bust as far as editorial cartoons go. We now have proof of that, at least in the form that counts for the educated classes, a statement by an elite college professor,
[ NOTE: Dan Ellsberg, born in April 1931, started out as a laser-bright Harvard grad, a Marine, and was a Pentagon whiz kid under Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara, when the Vietnam War heated up. He rose to fame when his conscience moved him to copy and release a secret report, called the Pentagon Papers, which … Continue reading For The Weekend: Daniel Ellsberg — Another American Hero
[Have you had “anomalous experiences” like this skeptic did? I have; but those are other stories. Here’s one that was recounted in Scientific American, where skepticism is (appropriately) an article of faith. “Anomalous experiences” (aka synchronicity, serendipity, coincidence, fate, luck, destiny, Providence, etc.) are by definition non-scientific, as they can’t be replicated like all successful … Continue reading “Inner Light”? Or Just an ”Anomaly”??
[NOTE: The burgeoning AI saga gets more unnerving every week. Here’s a concise report on how it’s now “imagining” new killer molecules, not yet actually made, but which (probably soon) can be. How will they be stopped or controlled —?] Making Unbelievably Lethal Designer Molecules Gwynne Dyer — Feb 27, 2023 “We are but one … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Designing New Molecules of Death