It's about time I blow the dust of this old blog and get it up and running again. Let's start out with something heavy. I'm going to have a quick look at the metaphysics of time and how that… Read More

I'm often asked, if there were no God, what would've inspired all the great artworks that we have in this world? As a lover of art, this is an important question to me. So here's a brief lis… Read More

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I was doing a bit of thinking, as I often do, and thought of one action that could be both religious and altruistic. This of course, is dependent on the religion being true, which I think is… Read More

My last two posts have been exclusively about altruism and this post will continue that theme. One of the comments I addressed mentioned the Christian saint Maximilian Kolbe. Maximilian Kolb… Read More

I received two comments on the last post and I want to address them both. I'll start with the more obscure one.the sub/dude said...Perhaps nobody told you they love you. I do if that ma… Read More

Again, I was reading through my textbook and it came up with an argument against altruism. For those who don’t know, altruism is the ethical standpoint whereby you put other’s in… Read More

I was reading my ethics textbook and it was talking a little bit about whether or not religion is relevant to ethics. It notes that many philosophers and theologians have considered morality… Read More

This one is so simple that it I'm surprised it took so long to come to me. First, we need to take a quick recap of what solipsism is, for those who forgot, or in some cases, never knew.Solip… Read More

I've just been accepted in to a Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, one of the best universities in the country. The university is phasing out coursework masters pr… Read More

I was doing a lot of thinking lately about knowledge and the part that belief plays in it. Obviously, you can't know something to be true unless you believe it to be true. This is a basic pr… Read More

While I'm generally against burning any book, there are a few exceptions. Twilight is one of them. Religious books come in a close second. So when I heard that the Koran burning in America w… Read More

The New South Wales government has done a bold thing and introduced a bill to legally recognise children with same sex parents or living in same sex foster homes. It will also allow same sex… Read More

Welcome to Gilead?I had this horrible feeling last night that if Abbott became PM we'd be heading towards a republic of Gilead moment. If you've read The Handmaid's Tale, you get it. If not… Read More

I got a comment the other day and it really got to me. Here it is, in it's entirety:Anonymous said...But you're making the assumption that she doesn't genuinely think in sports metaphors, wh… Read More

Not that I was going to vote for her anyway. I'm greens all the way. But I saw something on the news this morning which put me off. I had nothing against her up until now. She says, quite pr… Read More

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I’m not really, just for the purposes of the Blog. It’s been mainly political lately, but I think it’s about time I had a nice little anti-theistic rant. I’m in the m… Read More

Congratulations to BP’s engineers for finally stemming the tide of oil spilling into our oceans. It’s a brilliant achievement for them and despite how many of us hate BP right no… Read More

After the genocide charges laid against al-Bashir yesterday, I didn’t think things could get much better for a while. But to my surprise, they did. The French parliament has voted 335… Read More

So, finally, the arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir includes genocide. It goes back to the old question, how many acts of genocide are needed before it becomes genocide? It… Read More

So I just got an email from the organisation Care2 about a proposal by the Canadian government to cull off 220,000 seals over the course of five years in an effort to protect the local fishi… Read More

Just briefly want to complain. Why? I like complaining. Voiceworks magazine, the magazine I’m always submitting to and who never gets back to me even to reject me. They’re lookin… Read More

So the South African runner Caster Semenya has been cleared to compete against women. In running, in case that needed to be cleared up. Apparently this is a controversial decision, because w… Read More

It's been a big controversy in Australia. Even people who don't care about politics are talking about it. The Government's proposed super profits energy tax has finally had a breakthrough, a… Read More