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Israeli soldiers from elite wire-tapping unit refuse to use ‘extortion’,...
“I’m worried that Israeli society will see us as traitors, as people who are trying to harm Israel, while in reality it’s the opposite. We’re doing this because we feel a sense of urgency, a sense of...
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An anthropologist on Rotherham
I think we are going to have to consult with anthropologists if we want to figure out what happened at Rotherham and what to do about it. The anthropologist Peter Frost does a good job of analyzing...
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Ethics, morality
If we consider our minds to be networks of signals, then we can say that it is better that the signals be more efficient and contain fewer errors. This might be a good definition of a sound ethical...
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How we perceive and what to do about it
Human perception is massively based on human memory, expectations, and schemas already formed and present in the brain. A recent study on visual perception came to this conclusion: Altogether, these...
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The Diamond Sutra and moral idealism
Most Buddhists know that a bodhisattva is someone who helps others through their understanding of “enlightened practice” or “enlightening practices.” The Buddha is called a bodhisattva when referring...
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Yet another example of how irrational we are
The gist of a recent study, and there are more than just this one, is that people form strong opinions about others based on their faces—their shapes, prominent features, eyebrows, etc. An article...
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Signals and morality
A valuable and basic definition of morality might simply be “clear signaling.” If I harm you, I am messing with your signaling, making it less clear. If I deceive you, I am doing the same. If my own...
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Bank Whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann
I admire Fleischmann, as I do anyone who tries to do the right thing. Maybe the day will come when accurate lie-detectors will put honest people like her in power while removing the sociopaths who now...
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Why the Rotherham sex scandal is good evidence for the need for FIML
The Rotherham scandal was a terrible tragedy and a great crime, but it is also a very good example of how bad people are at communicating and thus thinking. It shows on the big screen of scandalous...
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The Diamond Sutra section 6: The Rarity of True Belief
Section Six of the Diamond Sutra has been added. A link to the sutra can be found at the top of this page. This section starts with Subhuti’s direct question: “World-honored One, can sentient beings,...
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Tony Szamboti : On NIST’s 9/11 Sins of Omission
With the… recently-published white paper as our focus, “Areas of Specific Concern in the NIST WTC Reports” which lists 25 Points seriously challenging NIST’s work in this area, we discuss striking new...
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Why values are important – Gabriel Branby
This is a talk about the Swedish axe company Gränsfors Bruk.
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Jonathan Chait and the End of Liberal Society in the West
The Charles Hebdo affair presents a difficult dilemma to liberals and the left in general. Typically, they have no problem with censorship of views they don’t like. They jump on board campaigns to fire...
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On the HBD Chick Interview
…at the heart of the argument in CofC is the idea that these movements did not stand or fall on the power of their ideas but rather on ethnic networking (summarized in Chap.6, p. 215ff and especially...
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Situation in Ukraine
Below is an email from a friend who is well-informed on Ukraine. I get more out of his emails than I do from most news sources. If you want a quick update on what is happening, read on…ABN Russia has...
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Are We Misunderstanding the Fifth Precept?
While poking around on the web, I came across some old pages from the original American Buddhist Net. The post below caught my eye and I thought I would repost it here. A link to the old post can be...
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500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
Link Honestly, this is way late in the game, but still an inspiring move.
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