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Pelham’s Law of Social Dissonance
In a relativist culture, the more beliefs one person communicates to another, the greater the likelihood that dissonance between their conflicting beliefs will spur the listener not to like the one communicating. In a culture (or subculture) in which people … Continue reading
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Regulating Certainty
Here’s a graphical representation (below) of a model I’m currently considering. It regards the question of how we should regulate our level of certainty on any particular belief. The idea is simple: We need to understand first the nature of … Continue reading
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A Little Activist Irony
What do activists do? Well, they try to motivate others to “wake up” and change things that need changing. “And what’s ironic about that?”, you ask. What’s ironic about that is that a great many activists are attempting to bring … Continue reading
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The Belief Box
Billy has a box. In his box is a belief. It is both important and special—a belief to be guarded and treasured—something of which to be proud and confident. He was given the belief long ago by a highly-trusted person … Continue reading
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An Important Note to All My (Real) Readers
Dear Readers, I have been attacked by computerized spam registrations on my blog site (jackpelham.com). I have over 1,500 registered users who are not real people. Therefore, I am about to purge my users list. This means that those of … Continue reading
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Fire Is Our Friend
There is, to me, no house so cold as one that needs no fireplace. The building and tending of fire has become for me such a primal instinct as to leave me feeling incomplete when it is not needed. In … Continue reading
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Writing for a Global Audience
The following article was written with these goals in mind: To be readily understood by all. To be offensive to no one. To be considered relevant and timely to all. To spur everyone on while discouraging no one.
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The Gold Bar Metaphor
See this gold bar? Chances are, you’ve never seen one laying on a neighbor’s lawn. Likewise, I’d say that chances are pretty good that if you had one, you wouldn’t keep it out our your lawn, either. And why not?
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Unworthy of Upworthy?
It appears that I might just be unworthy of the website, Upworthy.com. Having never heard of it before, my interest was piqued when I read this description on a friend’s Facebook post:
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Bill Nye the Science Guy Waxes Unscientific on the Theories of Evolution and Creation
NOTE: The author of this article believes not only that irrational creationists and irrational evolutionists alike are in the wrong, but that there are practically as many of one as there are of the other. The goal of this criticism … Continue reading
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