Section: Mr Nobody: With this heading I am reminded of the famous song of The Beatles from the 1960s called Nowhere Man . The opening lyrics of this famous song, written by the late John Lennon , are: He's a real nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. Does...

Section 4: Heidegger’s Humanism: Heidegger, like Nietzsche before him, was an unbeliever or atheist who could not give up Christian hopes.  According to Gray , and one is wont to believe him, carried along with the author’s enthusiasm and logic, that Heidegger’s terminology is merely new ...

Image by David Maddison via Flickr I attended a Christian college not because I was Christian at the time (I was far more public about my atheism then as compared to now) but because the school had a great reputation in the region. I encountered my share of religiously-motivated bigotry, certainly m...

Image by Dan Patterson via Flickr Long-time readers will know that door-to-door proselytizing is one of my pet peeves. It is a subject I have addressed here many times, including descriptions of means of deterrence I'm using. As much as I detest it, I admit finding the phenomenon quite fascinating. ...

You and your family are starving and it appears you may perish.  As you walk through a local market, you see the abundance of food and you decide to do the unthinkable, you steal your next meal to save your family.  Which brings us to an interesting moral question, is stealing made right because t...