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Computers & Technology > Home & Leisure Software The best free software for personal use: 2 of 31
As an impoverished student, the development of the open source softwware movement has been a great boon to me. Not only can I get all sorts of stuff for free that I would normally have to pay for, but the community of developers creating competing products can only be a good thing for the end users. Here is a list of my favou... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dark poems: 120 of 1320
Life is so dark.Life is grim.I can't see a way through.I'm trapped in the darkness.Time to change the lightbulb. More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophy (Other) Offering proof to the question: Is it true that 1+1=2?: 1 of 10
When I tell people that I am interested in the philosophy of mathematics, they often reply "Aha! Does one plus one equal two?" in the kind of facetious way people who don't know better often ask silly questions to philosophy students. When I reply "Yes, yes of course." I am told to "Prove it." OK then. I will.First, lets clea... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: God: 24 of 176
My GodI went to sunday school when i was younger,because my friend's dad was a priest.My dad goes to church at Christmas,I feel like I should go too.But I don't think that God lives there any more.The imposing spires of cold dead stone,the draught and poor acoustics,dull hymns, regimented joy.The scriptures describes a god I ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Science vs. religion: Understanding the differences: 4 of 22
As the boundaries of our scientific knowledge are pushed back in all disciplines and as religion and religious groups begin to regain influence in social and political spheres, it is important to ask where these two dominant entities interact. This interaction is important because it often seems as if Science and Religion are... More..
Sciences > Anthropology (Other) Views on the theories of evolution: 7 of 29
This is an article about evolution in the Earth Science category. Therefore I will make no mention in the main body of the following text to religion or religious beliefs. To do so would be to conflate the issue of understanding evolution and the issue of whether evolution is the best theory available to us. What follows is a... More..
Arts & Humanities > Ethics Ethics for Atheists: 13 of 33
Morality, the set of beliefs about how we should behave towards the outside world, has been an aspect of philosophy especially philosophy of religion since the ancient Greeks. I will argue that while morality does not need religion, they are very closely linked. "The term morality," according to Bernard Gert "can be used eith... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reasons why atheism is actually a religion: 19 of 45
A lot of what I am going to write in this article is paraphrased from another of my articles on the same subject. (http://www.helium.com/tm/349253/atheism-comes-ath eos-greek)I think the main point to be made in the case for Atheism as a religion is to say that what characterises religions is a set of beliefs about some supern... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Why are athiests so curious about religion: 11 of 24
First of all, I'd like to suggest that the title of this article be rewritten so that all the words are spelled properly. Athiests indeed...Some atheists want nothing to do with religion at all, but those are not the ones we are interested with here. If someone is defining themselves as an "atheist" they are essentially makin... More..
Sciences > Physics Is there a correct interpretation of quantum mechanics?: 2 of 4
On the face of it, the answer to this question is obviously 'no!' Many different ways of dealing with quantum weirdness have been developed in QM's 100 year history. From Bohm Theory to Many Worlds, from Dynamical Collapse to Instrumentalism... So there is no consensus as to how one should think about quantum phenomena. In th... More..