western

I found this article today on the website of the Association of Renaissance Martial Arts. It contains a plug for Randi and this site. :) http://www.thearma.org/essays/Unbelief.htm

How many Western philosophers are you aware of that condemned slavery or the unequal treatment of women in their societies? Here's a brief list of some of the important names http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/CRONLIST.htm Aristotle Pythagoras Socrates Plato Machiavelli Moore...

Logic The branch of philosophy that deals with the formal properties of arguments and the philosophical problems associated with them. The use of critical thinking, particularly binary yes/no thinking and inductive/deductive reasoning, as a means of testing ideas and debate. Reason In...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-08-10-europe-religion-cover_x.htm

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Pool Boy is enjoying his usual trip to Europe for business. He said everyone warned him "crime is way up" in Europe. He said since "the natives" are always complaining he didn't pay attention. For the first time though it seems the "group" has had some crime. While they stay at really nice...

Why is this term "western" used so much by believers to describe real science and real medical practices? Is it a way of invoking an emotion in all non-western people that gets them to resent science and medicine? Are they really ignorant that real science and medicine is practiced all over...

Although religion is no longer dominates everyday life in Western society, Islam becomes the fastest-growing religion in America and in the world? A NATION CHALLENGED: AMERICAN MUSLIMS; Islam Attracts Converts By the Thousand, Drawn Before and After Attacks By JODI WILGOREN Source: The New...

I often hear that Western civilisation is, at heart, a christian civilisation. Generally, this is meant to say that our morals and values are "christian" in origin and nature. I'd like to dispute that, at least for one key value. It seems to me that one of the fundamental tenets (perhaps...

I am speaking, of people who bring their infants and toddlers to restaurants. Get a damn sitter or stay the hell at home! It used to be, only certain parts of our society did this sort of thing. You would see an immigrant family from a country that doesn't have western social graces or a...