Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I’d hate to think setting people on fire is becoming a trend, but it was only weeks ago that I wrote about a high school kid who was set on fire by a 16 year old assailant who admitted that he was motivated by homophobia. Horrific as the incident was, I figured that the good…

Great. The meddlesome mad scientists are now poised to enable themselves to reprogram our brains: Researchers have known for decades that memories are unreliable. They’re particularly adjustable when actively recalled because at that point they’re pulled out of a stable molecular state. Last spring, scientists published a study performed at the University of Washington in…

I’m going to look at socialism from a little different perspective than you get from most views on it. And what is that perspective? It can be described simply as “When The State Is Her Husband”. But first I’d like you to watch a movie. The movie is a version of a play that is…

I keep reading about the neuroscientist who discovered he was a psychopath, and I’m skeptical. What he discovered was not that he was a psychopath, but that his brain scan was similar to the brain scans of psychopaths. That’s a big difference. The man is so obviously mired in the determinist camp that he is…

Outlaw Divorce. Well Jesus was against it. Prompted by Glenn Beck. I note Glenn divorced his first wife and after finding Jesus (I was under the impression that he was no longer available to be found – escaped from the tomb etc.) did not remarry his first wife but got another one. As far as…

Bureaucracy in action. H/T Live Leak

W.F. Price says: It doesn’t make it easier to run a society when you have to control and monitor every aspect of people’s lives…

Ever ask yourself how much of you the government owns? They own you in two ways – by giving you money and by taking away your money. Who makes the money? (hint – they print the makers name on the bills)

Earlier I read about a radical nutjob I’d heard of before who seems to specialize in mainstreaming outrageous and despicable ideas, this one being that all white people should go kill themselves. The way he talks to people said to be in his circle you would think that anyone who disagrees with him is so absurdly…

You can read about how cannabis helps people with PTSD at Cannabis For PTSD.

Former CIA director James Woolsey calls the Smart Grid a stupid idea. He says it would be a hacker’s dream. He talks about a hacker in Shanghai. I think what he really means is Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army operating out of Shanghai or some similar Chinese government/military organization.

I try to keep myself informed about current events, but it never ceases to amaze me how much I miss. I was taken aback recently to learn that a very important mover and shaper of public opinion — one Mark Halperin, editor at large for Time Magazine — has discovered the real culprit behind the…

Speaking of malignant Marxist narcissism, I stumbled across a nice little cache of Che Guevara quotes, and I found one that suits our current times: “Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates.  Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.” Be grateful for your Obamacare! Hear hear! This came right…

I think the raids are a response to Colorado legalizing pot. Today federal agents, assisted by local police, staged the biggest crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in Colorado since the state legalized cannabis for medical use in 2000. The Denver Post reports that the raids hit more than a dozen dispensaries in the Denver area, plus…

A left wing socialist looks at Marx’s personal narcissism, and makes a good case that his personal psychological problems drove his politics and his philosophy: …Marx’s psyche was a volatile mixture of grandiose illusions, anger, and self-hatred. Born a Jew but baptized a Lutheran at age four, the atheistic Marx denied and rejected his Jewish…

They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price.

It Is All Political. White House spokesman Jay Carney denied Friday that next year’s midterm elections are the reason behind the administration’s decision to postpone the 2014 opening date for 2015 enrollment in Obamacare — from October 15 to November 15. And people are not exactly happy with the current state of Obamacare: “All we…

Today is Dallas Day. I was in Navy boot camp at the time. But that is not my JFK memory. Mine was some years earlier. I was living in Omaha and going to High School (Omaha Central). It was election night 1960. I was staying up late (probably around midnight, if I recall correctly) listening…

H/T Ed Driscoll. The link at the end of the video: Black and Right

Melanotan II A pilot Phase I clinical trial conducted on three males by the College of Medicine, Pharmacology Department, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona published in 1996 reported that, “Melanotan II has tanning activity in humans given only 5 low doses every other day by subcutaneous injection.” The side effects reported were mild nausea…