Reading List: Arguing about Gods by Graham Oppy
If you are like me and ask yourself the Big Questions fairly frequently, you probably ask yourself perhaps the biggest question of them all: Is there a God?
Continue readingHow I passed the PL-400 Exam
You might not be familiar with the PL-400 exam – it is the requirement to obtain the “Power Platform Developer Associate” certification.
Continue readingAtheism: The Basics by Graham Oppy – Review
Author examines the definition of atheism, the history of atheism, speaks about various notable atheists from history and examines whether they really were atheists in the same sense of the word as we use the word today, or were they “merely” sceptics or something else entirely.
Continue readingHow to detect fake news
Fake news is just that – articles and other content that are presented as true but are in reality either made up completely or do contain an element of truth but grossly exaggerate or misrepresent other elements and facts that can be found in the article. Or even half of an article can be true, and the other half completely made up. Here’s how not to be fooled.
Continue readingWhat is the Manosphere?
The Manosphere is sort of an umbrella term which houses the beliefs of various subcultures which may have different conclusions about how to go about what they all perceive to be a problem: “Feminism has instituted an unnatural way of life”
Continue readingBeing Good by Simon Blackburn
One of the major sticking points of being religious is that you want to be a good person, that you want to help your fellow humans, that you want to be gentle and kind and those are the reasons we still need religion. Well, that is not true. Even if you feel that you need some guidance on how to live well and why you should do it when it seems that being evil is much more worthy, there are books that can help you in that regard. More than that, there are entire completely secular systems of why you should be ethical and how to best approach it.
Continue readingCritical thinking: why and how?
As the beliefs we have influence the experiences we face, what we believe seems very important. What we think about the issues we face influences how we spend our time on this earth. While I don’t believe for a second in the absolutism of ‘you attract what you are’ because it is partly blaming the victims of abuse for their experiences, we should not deny the impact of our beliefs on our experiences.
Continue readingReview: The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt
Unlike, say, Dawkins, whose books in my opinion do make similarly grandiose claims, without a strong philosophical foundation, here we see that the author takes extra care to try to disprove the strongest arguments possible. He understands that it does not make much sense to disprove a weak argument and leave the stronger one untouched. Naturally, some would say that Dawkins’ books are written for a more general population.
Continue readingWhy evolution is true
One of the things that has a great potential to irritate is the denial of basic and proven scientific truths. A lot of confusion can come from the fact that…
Continue readingMartin Eden by Jack London – Plot and Review
Regular visitors would have noticed that this site in the reading category mostly has non-fiction, that is – books that teach you something, that makes you think. That means a…
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