Environmental actions, Unitarians, Gaming
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tcpipGetUp! are currently running a very sensible campaign concerning some serious problems with the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. On a related note, I have joined the Labor Environmental Activist Network, which is one of the more positive things I have seen in that party for sometime; I intend to develop some material for them around eco-taxes and the like based around the simple (but oft-ignored) principle that it is far better to drive government funds from the resources people use, rather than the production they engage in.
Unitarian service on Sunday wasn't very good. It came under the title "The Truth Will Set You Free", and I gave the speaker the benefit of the doubt that perhaps they would actually discuss the nature of truth. Instead, as I suspected, they gave yet another espousal of a truncuated and old version of historical materialism; criticism of the presentation by younger members of the congregation was noted. Afterwards I gave a presentation at the Philosophy Forum on "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast", which investigated the problems that philosophy has whilst it is tied to metaphysics (and particularly theology) and expanded verification theory to incorporate the rational dimensions of universal pragmatics. Last month's notes on Dark Matter/Dark Energy is now available.
My review of Summerland is up, including some pretty bad editing errors on my part; I really should be more careful in this regard. On Sunday our RuneQuest group went truly retro with the integration of the 1978 scenario Balastor's Barracks into our storyline; it went really well but I had to make some modifications so it made sense. Have found myself working on another project for ICE; NDA forbids me from discussing the details (bleh).
Unitarian service on Sunday wasn't very good. It came under the title "The Truth Will Set You Free", and I gave the speaker the benefit of the doubt that perhaps they would actually discuss the nature of truth. Instead, as I suspected, they gave yet another espousal of a truncuated and old version of historical materialism; criticism of the presentation by younger members of the congregation was noted. Afterwards I gave a presentation at the Philosophy Forum on "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast", which investigated the problems that philosophy has whilst it is tied to metaphysics (and particularly theology) and expanded verification theory to incorporate the rational dimensions of universal pragmatics. Last month's notes on Dark Matter/Dark Energy is now available.
My review of Summerland is up, including some pretty bad editing errors on my part; I really should be more careful in this regard. On Sunday our RuneQuest group went truly retro with the integration of the 1978 scenario Balastor's Barracks into our storyline; it went really well but I had to make some modifications so it made sense. Have found myself working on another project for ICE; NDA forbids me from discussing the details (bleh).
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Date: 2009-03-02 10:19 am (UTC)Two more interesting links , if you don't have them already -
http://community.livejournal.com/green_future/profile
http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/profile
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Date: 2009-03-02 10:57 am (UTC)There hasn't been that many UU philosophers of particular note; From the transcendentalist tradition in religion there was Ralph Waldo Emerson and David Thoreau. Plus, in more recent times, Arthur Lovejoy.
I'll join the first community, but not the second. I have some issues with some of the moderators of the latter; indeed, I would go so far to describe them as enemies of the philosophical tradition of free and reasoned inquiry.
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Date: 2009-03-02 12:59 pm (UTC)