rational vs. real

I love this one. For those who don’t get get it: There are plenty of how-to’s to understand this one on the net, and they do a better job of explaining it than what I could do in my, well, not so limited time during the night shift. So, yeah, I do have the time […]

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Daily Prompt: Morality Play

Where do your morals come from — your family? Your faith? Your philosophical worldview? How do you deal with those who don’t share them, or derive them from a different source? That is what a lot of people ask me first when I tell them I am an atheist. If I am not afraid of […]

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Monopolies are bad, m’kay

I know it’s not exactly a novel conclusion, I am just reaffirming what everybody, who doesn’t have the monopoly on something, thinks about them. Yesterday afternoon, I took a trip on a train. It was a rather short trip, distance-wise, but it virtually took forever. That’s the privatized German Railway Company for you: overpriced, bad […]

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