24 April 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control […]
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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky
22 December 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Unless you’ve been living under a diamond the size of Manhattan recently, you’ve no doubt noticed the release of the much-hyped movie Avatar, James Cameron‘s latest bulldozer-full of eye candy. It’s got noble savages, heavy-handed environmentalism, and more stunning CGI visuals than anything George Lucas could ever hope to conjure forth. Shortly after BF newcomer […]
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3D, Alamo Drafthouse, aliens, Avatar, biology, consciousness, Dances with Wolves, dwarves, emergence, environmentalism, film, gnomes, hobbits, James Cameron, Joss Whedon, Jurassic Park, Kevin, Kristin, Mark Cuban, movies, Native Americans, noble savage, Pokemon, porn, racism, Samurai Pizza Cats, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Sigourney Weaver, Smurfs, spiritualism, Star Wars, Stephen, The Core, The Matrix, unobtainium, worship