Bogosity

Did you ever play that “team building” game where you have to pretend that you’re on the Titanic and the lifeboat can’t take your whole group so you have to decide who to leave behind? I think the supposed point of that exercise is that everyone has valuable attributes and that you can never [...]

I was just reading about a family who went through the most awful trauma. After being forced to travel by foot for several days, while the wife was heavily pregnant, they were unable to access accommodation and the woman was forced to give birth in very unsanitary conditions and in utter disgrace. One [...]

Our ethics and values in todays society are mostly a bit muddy but maybe they are getting clearer.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why it is that you have certain ethics and values? I mean sometimes being a “good” person can get in the way. Have you ever just thought hang it all, [...]

My friend Murray is running for the Democrats in this election in my electorate. This is probably not reason enough to vote Democrats and I think I might have even voted Green last election. The time before that I voted Democrats because I read all their policies and agreed with them more or [...]

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. – Arthur C Clarke, science fiction writer (1917 – )

I think you could argue for morality without God by using Kant’s argument, sort of, that all we know of God is our sense of morality. So in a way [...]

Just one more thing to say tonight while I’m thinking about it. I often come across people on blogs or whatever who seem to be having a big panic because something or other has become popular and they don’t agree with it. I understand the concept of the tyranny of the majority and [...]

The church needs to get over the whole ‘sex is gross’ thing, a friend said to me the other day. ‘But sex is gross’, I responded. We continued to discuss the many failings of the church to engage with society in a relevant way. Later on I was reading in The Spirituality [...]