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Prejudice is Part of Human Nature

We human beings have many times many different prejudices.  I’m not trying to make a value statement in saying that, just naming something that I believe is an inherent aspect of human nature.  We are deeply prejudiced beings.  It is impossible that this not be the case.  I have never Read more →

Symbols, Pre-Conceptions, and the Construction of Reality

In the discussion of a recent article of mine on the growth of the myth of a post-racial America, it became clear to me that the article depends upon a particular understanding of the nature of reality as we human beings have constructed it, and that I had never articulated Read more →

Einstein’s Library and The Power of Defining Reality

Whenever I begin thinking and writing about issues relating to what we conceive of as reality, I always know that I’m going to catch “push-back”, and yet in theology, cosmology, and philosophy I do not think there is a more important topic. The issue of what constitutes reality is, at Read more →

The World’s Become Bendy

My world’s become bendy. Yesterday, my right eye became inflamed with what is either an eye infection or simply a very irritated eye from something that got under my contact lens. I don’t know, but today, to try and help it heal, I have been wearing my glasses all day. Read more →