I never cease to be amazed at how professing Christians can repeatedly cling to the same 1% or less of Scriptural passages, misapplying them to justify their erroneous positions, all as they repeatedly ignore the other 99% of divine biblical testimony. It’s insanity to me. It’s even worse when they rely on the ambiguity fallacy…
Category: Rationality & Objectivity
Intelligent Discourse: There Is No Such Thing as “Your Truth” | PragerU & Ben Shapiro: YouTube
Video One: “What we know for sure is “speaking your truth” would have to be the same as “speaking THE truth,” …so why not just say that? The truth is the truth. Don’t qualify it. Can something be true for you and not true for me? Is the truth relative or is the truth fixed?…
Discipline: Growth: You Can’t Fix Other People, But You Can Fix Yourself: Jordan Peterson: PragerU: YouTube
Want a better life? Want to make the world a better place? You can, when you take responsibility and start bettering yourself. Best-selling author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson explains how incremental daily changes can lead to a better life and ultimately a more harmonious world.
Politics: Free Speech: So, You Think You’re Tolerant? | PragerU: YouTube
Are you tolerant? You probably think so. But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience. My Note: There are none more intolerant than the leftist who swear they are…
Communication: Discourse: “Will Witt Debates a “Progressive” Muslim” PragerU
I didn’t post this to foster debates about which culture is better. I posted it to show that two people, whose viewpoints are quite different, can nonetheless engage in an intelligent, peaceful conversation. Remember, it’s cogent dialogue (not rioting, reviling, and shrieking) that moves us forward.
Cognition: Persuasion: Study Shows Newspaper Op-Eds Change Minds: YaleNews
Through two randomized experiments, a new study has found that op-ed pieces have significant effects on people’s views among both the public and policy experts. Click Study shows newspaper op-eds change minds | YaleNews for the rest of the article. My Note (AE): From a cognitive/psychological frame, I enjoyed this article. From a “hope for…
Intelligent Discourse: Integrity: Honest, Objective, and Sincere Dialogue
Most anyone can be made to look foolish: By restating their position(s) in an incorrect, out of context, or otherwise misleading manner and then proceeding to knock-down such straw-men; or by… Interrupting them before they have an opportunity to finish their thought/sentence/argument, and then proceeding to refute that incomplete statement as if it represented the…
Personality Types: Enneagram: The >Negatives< of the Type Four and Type Five Personalities (Two Videos)
Man… as a 4w5 / 5w4 dual-personality type, these two videos were really hard to hear at times. He does exaggerate at times, and I definitely disagree with him at times (especially on certain social/religious/political points), but honesty dictates that he is incredibly spot on in his overall assessment of the core types (though I…
Spiritual Wrestlings 