Year: 2008

by Jason Stotts 1. Values are that which contribute to one’s life; disvalues are things that harm or retard one’s life. 2. In order to say that you value X, you mean that you judge that X will improve your life. If we can find no fault with the above propositions, then it is clear…

by Jason Stotts If you grant the principle that ex nihilo, nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes) then you are necessarily atheist.  No matter what other attributes you predicate of a god, the most important is that of the “creator”.  Yet, if nothing can come from nothing, then this god could not have created everything:…

by Jason Stotts It is today a common assumption that true romantic love requires exclusivity. Many different people, including Ayn Rand and Aristotle, argue that by having multiple lovers one would run into one of three major problems: 1. One would dilute one’s love such that no love that one had could be considered true…

by Jason Stotts There was recently a new kind of conference held concerning “global warming”, one that’s actually concerned with finding out the facts of what’s going on.  Here’s some brief excerpts from their mainpage: Are the scientists and economists who ask these questions just a fringe group, outside the scientific mainstream? Not at all.…

by Jason Stotts As a man of reason, I am vitally interested in seeing certain changes come about in the world. However, given that I am only one person, there is only so much that I can do right now. Yet, fortunately, that little bit is enough to make a difference. One highly underrated thing…

by Jason Stotts Sex is one of the most important aspects of a human life and, unfortunately, also one of the least understood. Beliefs about sex range from the belief that it is one of the best things in life, to the belief that it is the vilest of acts; from the belief that sex…

by Jason Stotts Although it is strange, it is a fact that many skyscrapers lack a 13th floor. It is not that these structures are limited to only 12 floors, since clearly many building are much taller than this. Rather, these buildings suffer from the irrationality of superstition. One would think that with all of…