I can sympathize with the desire to locate unbiased resources, but I would argue that is a self-limiting venture. Apologists and inquisitors help tease out why certain actions were undertaken and what resulted from them. You will gain a more complex understanding of politics and personality, as oppo...

-10 outside, ugh

Read any Eliot Pattison book set in Tibet and find out how wrong you are about generalizing religions as interchangeable social paradigms. Find the Southern Baptist family that spends 24/7/365 days of the year taking turns at four hours each spinning a family prayer wheel for the protection of the ...

It seems to me that we have evolved a sense of awareness of something greater than us. Let's call it a mystical feeling . (I'm purposefully not using the word "spiritual" here because it does have supernatural connotations.) So we all have this mystical feeling to some degree, some more t...

I prefer paperback, though I would argue the larger ones are the best to handle and for the "book smell" that is so enjoyable.

I have read for some time now, that Atlas Shrugged has just flown off the shelves by worried objectivists and conservatives who believe that they are seeing in the Obama administration, the very things Ayn Rand wrote about. While I could post article after article, I did find one that pretty much su...

The oak tree and blood vessel system of the railroad on Taggart's desk are some good notable points. My mind was drawn to those as I rescanned chapter one yesterday and then read these comments. The hollowed out tree of what it once was and the faded map of routes on the desk definitely show a death...

I have finished this novel so I will be cautious as to what I say here, but while reading a huge question came up for me. The word anarchy is used often so I ask, what does the word anarchy mean in the context of this novel? I also wonder if it could mean different things to different people? Excel...

Bravo sir, bravo!

Robin Williams dressed as a woman. I don't know if I'll see a kind grandmother the same ever again.

GREAT topic :!: If anything, it highlights the glaring difference between anarchy and the Christian conception of man and his(our) nature. The anarchist position obviously maintains that humans are naturally good and that we would figure things out on our own. I'm not certain if we are bad from birt...