'Psychology' Archive
October 4th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology /
1. What important things do I believe I could accomplish that no one else could?
2. What's my second or third ...
May 4th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology /
I wanted to chime in with my two cents about the question of scientific morality. Sam Harris has laid out ...
January 30th, 2010 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Psychology, Religion, Stupid Things /
Once in a while you strike Facebook gold. The kinds of discussions I used to have here on BSJ ...
January 8th, 2010 / Current Affairs, Psychology /
If there was any doubt about the abject inadequacy of the conservative psyche to face modern life, the airport scanner ...
January 1st, 2010 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Stupid Things /
I don't suffer fools gladly. As BSJ moves into a new decade, I've decided that certain subjects are not worth ...
December 16th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Energy Transition, Psychology, Society /
"How can we ever agree, Like the rest of the world, We grow farther apart.
I swear you don't listen to ...
August 17th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Stupid Things /
I've been called out today by former friend and colleague Francois Tremblay over a Facebook discussion (PDF) started by his ...
May 31st, 2009 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mark Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
Continued from Part 2
From campaign speeches to tent revivals to late-night talk radio, countless orators throughout human history have influenced, cajoled, inspired, and galvanized the ...
May 25th, 2009 / Psychology, Singularity /
The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...
April 26th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology /
A survey out last week from the Pew Research Center shows declining perceptions of necessity for a variety of household ...
February 22nd, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
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 ...
February 16th, 2009 / Books, Critical Thought, Power of Now, Psychology /
Eckhart Tolle is a first-class charlatan. Despite this fact, he has sold, and continues to sell millions of copies of his ...
February 15th, 2009 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Science /
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...
February 11th, 2009 / Psychology, Society, Stupid Things /
The sky is falling. Or so it would seem, listening to the wails of outrage from frequent travelers for whom ...
February 7th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Psychology, Science /
R Donaldson - February 2009
Water, Water
It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...
January 2nd, 2009 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...
November 29th, 2008 / Celebrities, Newswire, Psychology, Religion /
Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...
November 27th, 2008 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...
October 20th, 2008 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Psychology /
Proving once again that irrationality and science cover-ups are not the exclusive province of the religious right, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has "instructed ...
October 10th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Psychology /
"Socialism, Communism, go to Russia!" shouts the woman wearing a cross. "He should die," "Socialist Swine," "Terrorist." These are not the epithets of a ...
October 8th, 2008 / Books, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
A seal is supposed to separate the desirable from the undesirable, like an airlock on a spacecraft, a ring on a piston, or a ...
August 17th, 2008 / Energy Transition, Psychology, Stupid Things /
An article on CNN describes the "plight" of a man who doesn't like wind turbines: He hates the sight and he hates ...
May 28th, 2008 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Psychology, Stupid Things /
Carbon Belch Day: When Morons Attack Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going ...
March 26th, 2008 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Psychology /
Three simple words. "No, they don't." A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a former CUT member who I hadn't ...
December 28th, 2007 / Critical Thought, Psychology, Television /
There's only one word for what unordained Catholic minister Justin Fatica does, and that's sadomasochism. Not in a sexual sense, of course, but in the sense ...