It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so — Artemus Ward (1834 – 1867) Take for instance, that grass is green, or that rocks are hard. We know they are. Except we don’t because they onlyContinue Reading
So there’s nothing wrong with our ability to use logic, to reason, to pick up lots of facts and induce truths from them, manufacture hypotheses or deduce things from those. That’s all great. It’s really good. But that is merely the control part of any conscious ritual. Even a scientistContinue Reading
When is hilarity sublime? I grew up in a family that always laughed at farts. You know, it was just a thing. And stuff like that might come up at the dinner table or anywhere. Of course, none of my brother’s wives or mine really appreciate that humor. But itContinue Reading