By BlackSun / May 25, 2009 /
The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...
By BlackSun / May 19, 2009 /
It used to be that the most rancorous online debate was reserved for questions about religion, especially how and what to ...
By BlackSun / May 9, 2009 /
Sean and Annette Prophet
I turned 45 today, and I am hopeful, both for my future and for the future of the ...
By BlackSun / Apr 29, 2009 /
The New York Times (!) just ran an article called More Atheists Shout It From The Rooftops. The Los Angeles ...
By BlackSun / Apr 26, 2009 /
A survey out last week from the Pew Research Center shows declining perceptions of necessity for a variety of household ...
By BlackSun / Apr 22, 2009 /
I always have great sympathy for closeted atheists and agnostics. They are forced to dance between their true feelings, questions and ...
By BlackSun / Feb 22, 2009 /
Chapter 1: You are not Your Mind
Subhead: The Greatest Obstacle to Enlightenment pp. 11-16
Tolle encourages "finding the gold inside yourself." It's ...
By BlackSun / Feb 16, 2009 /
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
By BlackSun / Feb 15, 2009 /
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
By BlackSun / Feb 11, 2009 /
The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...
By R. Donaldson / Feb 7, 2009 /
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
By BlackSun / Feb 1, 2009 /
Climate-induced drought. Deadly heat waves. Overfishing. 400,000 annual premature deaths from coal-soot in China (US ...
By BlackSun / Jan 20, 2009 /
On the cusp of this amazing moment in world history, I'm compelled to reflect on what has led us to this ...