Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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While Bruce Springsteen isn’t a scientist or a mathematician and is not likely to develop any grand theories of space or time, he appears to have developed a similar flaw in his thinking late in his career. Sir Isaac Newton was both one of the world’s most brilliant physicists and a devout Christian. When he… Continue reading Springsteen, Einstein, Isaac Newton and the ironic limits of genius
Shakespeare isn’t a puzzle box to be unlocked or a cipher to be decrypted. He is instead a universe to be explored and in that regard, no one in history has even come close. Ultimately, your opinion is likely based on your opinion on the purpose of art itself. The 400th anniversary of the publication… Continue reading Shakespeare friends and foes, Falstaff, and the idea of art as a mirror to the soul
The Wizard of Menlo Park invented the modern world, pioneering everything from recorded sound to the light bulb, but he did with an eccentricity inseparable from his unique genius. If Thomas Alva Edison had invented the phonograph alone, the world’s first device for recording and playing back sound, he would have been considered a genius. … Continue reading Thomas Edison and the eccentric nature of genius
There are always going to people who have things you don’t, whether by birth or achievement. There is value instead in being grounded – knowing who you are, what you are capable of, your strengths and weaknesses and the like. The Bulimia Project recently asked three Artificial Intelligence Image Generators to create their vision of… Continue reading Unpopular opinion: Beauty standards are supposed to be unrealistic, that’s the point
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 