Unwise Ideas

thor's unwise ideas

thor may

    featured topic ...
Pissing On Every Lamp Post
        - the paradox of scholarship

Signatories to a Declaration of Membership in the Human Community

crisp and wise ??
Thor's Aphorisms

an arm-wrestle with the persistence of religion
The Atheist's Catechism

collections

  1. notes to myself from the bottom of the world

   Part I : Qualities and Values
    [dropping an anchor against the tide]

   Part 2: The Human Circus
   [looking askance at political culture]

   2. Social Innovation
       (and resistance to...)
            [ the odd idea to kick around ]

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topics

9/11 and the Constituencies of Dissent
Pissing On Every Lamp Post
        - the paradox of scholarship
   Gender Puzzle
   Dead or Alive?
   Star Wars Revisited
   The God Of Cracks Between The Floorboards
   When Is It Rude To Be Rude?
   Student Activism: Truth & False Prophets
   Individualism or the Group?
   Virtue Rewards Confucian Communists(?)
   Why Grasshoppers Don't Have a Problem
   Pain
   The Case for Political Impotence
   The Conundrum of Men & Women
   Teaching as a Subversive Activity
   Nation States and Other Extremities
   Average Savagery
   Principles - Do They Work?
   Good Man, Bad Man
   The Art of Disproportion
   Making It Easy To Be Good
   Birth of a Salesman
   The Poor Man's Fountain of Youth
   The Human Mind as an Error-Checking Mechanism

topics, essays, oddments

Curiosity Questionnaire
A Personal Declaration of Membership in the Human Community
(would you like to sign?)
Signatories to the Personal Declaration of Membership in the Human Community
(... the pioneers)

Super-Culture & the Ghost in the Machine
(a whimsical essay on keeping the batteries of civilization charged)
EDINN: Respinning Intellectuals into the Social Fabric (coffee shop babble ... or sparks for a new social order?)
Psychological Time & May's Constant

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All opinions expressed in Thor's Unwise Ideas and The Passionate Skeptic are entirely those of the author, who has no aim to influence, proselytize or persuade others to a point of view. He is pleased if his writing generates reflection in readers, either for or against the sentiment of the argument.