Red State is a great movie. It’s about an extremist religious group killing people and a resulting standoff between them and government agents. The group is similar to the Westboro Baptist Church, only with more murder and lots of guns. I found it to be totally unpredictable and full of surprises, which is rare in [...]
I read a book called Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson Jr. MD and Clare Aukofer (I believe it was Penn Jillette who recommended it). It attempts to explain why humans have a natural susceptibility to believe in the supernatural by describing various behavioral [...]
Why? People ask this simple question every day, but they can never get the real answer. You can follow the chain of causality until you reach a dead end, where pure randomness takes effect. At this point, there is no reason. This is also where the Universe is open to interpretation. So what are the [...]