QotD: How Tyranny Begins

Posts from This Journal “belief” Tag

• Boiron Attempts Hypnosis to Save Homeopathy Market

  On Monday October 14 I attended what was advertised as a movie about homeopathy. It was listed in the email that goes out to all staff, faculty…

• QotD: Why Populists are Appealing

  ...Glib, facile solutions stand at the very heart of the populist appeal. Voters do not like to think that the world is complicared. They certainly…

• QotD: Goebbels on Repetition

  If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as…

• QotD: Don't Try to Answer Unanswerable Questions

  To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula…

• QotD: If Learning, Not Gloating, Is the Goal

  "A single dot on a canvas is not a painting and a single bet cannot resolve a complex theoretical dispute. This will take many questions and…

• QotD: Western Yoga isn't much like Ancient Hindu Yoga

  Contemporary Western postural yoga projects an authenticity and unbroken ancient heritage onto the yogic tradition, while mourning the…

• Blazak on the Role of Religion in Hate Crimes in the US

  Randy Blazak is a PhD from Emory University with a specialty in hate crimes. Specifically he studied racist skinheads (he doesn't say just…

• The Problem with Democracy: We are Horny, Greedy and Cruel

  Democracy is based on the belief that people are more good than bad, that we are more curious than controlling, more playful than violent, and more…

• QotD: Uncertain Fanatics

  You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They…