Is free will a myth? No way. How do we know? Because I am free to think we have free will; and you, if you disagree, are free to think we do not. The definition of free will is thinking. … Continue reading
Is Free Will a Myth?
Category: Daily Dose of Reason
Life Owes You Nothing
“I have found that when you love life, life will love you back.” (Arthur Rubenstein) In other words, your life is yours to shape. You are its driver. Life does not owe you anything. There’s nothing whatsoever that you’re entitled … Continue reading
Why the Democrats Will Never Make a Deal
Today President Trump tweeted: Border Security and the Wall “thing” and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker! Let’s make a deal? The Democrats will never make a deal with President Trump. Not on … Continue reading
Authority (George Carlin)
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.” — George Carlin Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and … Continue reading
A Little Understood Cause of Hypocrisy
According to one school of psychology, we all have an ideal self and an actual self. The actual self consists of what we actually think, do, and feel. The ideal self is our conscious or subconscious evaluation of who we … Continue reading
Should Border Wall Funding Go to Education, Health Care and Welfare?
I’m tired of the argument, “The money for the border wall is better spent on health care, education, and welfare.” First of all, the border has to do with national security. Our Constitution requires the federal government to provide for … Continue reading
Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices?
Term limits for Supreme Court justices misdiagnoses the problem. The incorrect diagnosis with such a “cure” is that a life-time term is too long. If justices have shorter terms, goes the reasoning, then we’ll have fewer problems. But that’s not … Continue reading
Millennials & the Secret of Good Propaganda
Why does propaganda sometimes stick — and sometimes not? Consider the Catholic kids who got strict Catholic dogma in the 1940s and 1950s. Most of them moderated or turned away from Catholicism altogether. While the nuns succeeded in teaching them … Continue reading
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute … Continue reading
Happy Unearned Guilt Day
Pope Francis gave his usual rant yesterday about the evils of capitalism, advanced civilization and material well-being. “For many people, life’s meaning is found in possessing, in having an excess of material objects. An insatiable greed marks all human history, … Continue reading
Shaming Supporters of Border Security is Truly Shameful
I’m hearing the following argument a lot, because it’s Christmas: “Christians talk a good game about loving their neighbor. But here they want to build a wall to reduce immigration and not help people from Mexico and elsewhere, because of … Continue reading
Is It Too Late for America?
Let’s be brutally honest. It might be too late for America. One of the two major parties is literally Communist. A century of government intervention in the economy has made prosperity fragile at best. If President Trump doesn’t get a … Continue reading