Welcome back! Thank you for exploring with me. I have suggested that seemingly innocuous delusions–and one which is not only popular, but the basis for many peoples’ lives — are the seedbed for accepting as fact more immediately dangerous delusions. However, I have not explained how this is possible and…

Last week I talked about the three most common delusions — one of which I expect to get me into trouble, because it deals with religion. First off, understand I am not attempting to attack or debase theistic religion per se (there are logical places in history to do that…

Yesterday I mentioned, in part 2 of this series, that: Because seemingly innocuous issues are ignored and socially accepted, we are having trouble with more consequential issues of a similar type. First, let’s look at the seemingly ”innocuous issues”: We generally accept–in polite company and even among family and friends–that…

In part 1 of this series, I said “believe what you want” is used as a final refrain or retort, when we have given up in trying to convince someone of an idea or fact. …

This essay can be heard, narrated by the author, here. The argument reaches its end, and one of you says it; it is the point in time in the conversation at which the speaker realizes that the listener is not going to see reason–in the way that the speaker delineated…

Just live in the present and forget “the past” (remember the past is a reconstruction of information you have in bits in your mind) — only learning from the past; don’t drag fiction into the now — which is what the past is when experienced in the present. …

by C. Charles Atteniese One: The Crow One unbelievable day long hence — in a wintry mountain basin–on the east limb of the world. Branches sway fiercely in frigid gusts, setting all the forest in motion under a bronze-to-cobalt sky. The winds blow so strongly that sometimes they blow virtually…