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This "Enlightenment" section
here has many of the most eye-opening articles.
The overall theme here are articles for which common belief significantly differs from the reasonable conclusions. Enlightened skepticism promoted also considers the harm arising from ignornace.
“Enlightenment” & “Utilitarianism" are the oldest two addresses under "skeptically.org".
#128 Terrorism Hegemony
Currently averaging over 5,000 pages downloaded per weekday--see bottom of page.
The evidence based health site is nearly 1,000 pages per day
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"Enlightenment" is the beginning;
started in 2001. Many of the most eye opening articles (contrary to the beliefs of the common herd) are found here in
Enlightenment.
Updated 4/23/12
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To see the latest
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#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, 40 topics,
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pages downloaded per day A
#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR CURRENT NEWS ISSUES, Current month’s political news, economic, and international
news —over 900 pages downloaded per day A
#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, 1,500 evidence based medical articles organized
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topics over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.
Sections on worst drugs and the games PhARMA plays to maximize profits,
including misinformation about aspirin and hormones A
#220 VIDCASTS & U-TUBE, for those who like the visuals A
#125 The Crash On the economic
collapse; # 151 The Depression A
#1 Enlightenment, our favorites, the flagship
articles A
#209 THE
ARTISTS, bios and
samples
of their art A
Skeptical
sites:
#1 Enlightenment,
collection of the best A
#4 Logical threads
#6 Thinkers
on Religion A
#9 Spiritualism
#17 Quackery
#19 Skepticism
#29 For skeptics
#37 Biographical
#102
Quacks, theories & practice
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#1
Enlightenment A
#5
Cartoons Mostly Religious
#6
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#10 Literary
Works on Religion
#8
Old Testament Analysis
#26 Ancient
Sacred Works of the Hebrews
#15 Christian
Apocrypha and Essays
#16 New
Testament
#18 Against
Religious foolishness A
#20 Ancient Sacred Works of the Christians
#22 Christianity
#24 Bible
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#109 Philosophy & religion
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NEW SITE: CURRENT POLITICS INCLUDING LINKS TO OVER A DOZEN A+++
MUSICAL CARTOONS ON THE CANDIDATES.
This site, once the skeptical-educational efforts of JK, it is now currently being
revised to reflect the varied interests of members of the skeptical group of San Diego, and thus the content of a non-skeptical
nature are being removed, and placed in the linked site jerrymondo. (Other member sites will be found linked in
suitable locations.) This revision of this site will take some time, for there are many articles which we desire
to add to this site and many others to move, and only two have volunteered to continue working upon the site.
The essays
which follow are exercises of our rational nature. They also disabuse certain all too common errors
in factual foundations and logical inference. Taken as a whole, the articles contain a scientific explanation of the Nature of Things (as understood by the Greek atomist school of philosophy).
The
reference to Socrates (below the title "ENLIGHTENMENT") alludes to his assertion--according to Plato--that the God Apollo
required of Socrates that he teach the citizens of Athens to know themselves. Philosophy
lies at its core. The Greek philosophers of all schools shared a vision of the ideal citizen. California Skeptics feel
that Apollo is looking over our shoulders.
WHY BOTHER?
You probable wonder why I have done this. There
is the psychological answer: I like working on this site because of intellectual
pleasures and the relief of boredom; viz., I get more reinforcements from this activity than others for approximately
20 hours per week. And there is the conceptual answer: the combination of the fulfillment of the utilitarian imperative of doing the greatest good, and Hope (the
chance that this would lead to something bigger). I am unloading years
of learning and paper collecting. I am driven by the urge to arrive at the best
conclusion based upon the evidence. Nearly all that I have pasted is for the sake of helping both you and
me rise above our animal side and become logical. Secondly, it is to prmote ataraxia, read (Love of all things as foundation for happiness). The Greek
philosophers held that the quite enjoyment from a mind that is at peace and delights iin studies is an important part of living
the good life--elements of ataraxia. I started this pursuit again of the academic once the 6-year break pot smoking
break, which ended in 1976 with my enrollment again in college (I had completed 2-years of graduate school in 1970).
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Notice
what has happened to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), this is because the Federal Reserve and particular
and the financial community in general defacto control our economy. Our government prints money for the
banks to loan out (their principle source of income). Printing money causes inflation, and it also caused this and the last depression.
Debt payments are the 2nd largest item in the federal budget (over $400 billion). Our Federal Reserve System was modeled
on those in Europe, which is why the economic collapse is world wide. One cannot understand
U.S. government’s
relationship with the business-banking sectors, or U.S. foreign
policy without understanding the role of the Federal Reserve and other national-banking systems. They are the foundation of the 3-headed Hydra, the IMF, WTO and World Bank.
To learn more on banking http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=214.
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A humane skeptic is one who not only believes in proportion
to the evidence in support thereof, but also accepts utilitarian ethics and thereby seeks to improve the condition of mankind in
according to the measure of harm-and-happiness. If nearly all people saw half as deeply as Plato or Jeremy Bentham we would
overturn our old apple cart.
To him who little is not enough, nothing is enough--Epicurus
Original sin is the difference between my pleasures and yours--B.F. Skinner
Above
all cause no harm--Horace
Political-economic
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#111 World Trade, World Bank, Privatization A
#123 Neoliberalism at Work A
#125 The Crash
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#131 The Depression
#133 Banking History & Effects
#135 Globalization
#136 Populism
#106 Economics
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#119 Economic
Developments A
#121 Economics the Dismal Science
#132 Economic Graphs A
#23 Critical of Capitalism A
#116
OIL
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#128 Terrorism Hegemony
#126
Corporate system
#139
Government Sold Off
#129 Obama Watch
#134 Democrats Obama
#21 Muckraking Political Articles
#103 Parliament of Whores A
#104 Government, Presidency, Congress, Courts
#117 Federal Court System
#12 Penal
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#28 Nuclear War Threat A
#118
Iraq war &
Wars A
#127 Military War
#138
Genocides
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Education dismantled
#120
Election Reform A
#124 Managed-Corporate Press
#2 Utopia A
#137
Food Inc. #14 Labor A
#41 Medical
Business Abuses
#130
Big Pharma at Work
#25 Bush
Bashing
#112 Bush Watch A
Utopia, ethics, happiness, misc. sites:
#2 Utopia A
#3 Utilitarianism A
#5 Cartoons & satire
#7 Table of contents & links
#101 Links & quotes
#105 Scientific psychology
#108 Psychoanalysis, their weird theories
#27 Recreational drugs A
#110 Recreational drug research A
#113 Environmental & animals
#114 B.F. Skinner, works and life
#115 Ethics humanistic
#122 Pod casts & u-tube A
JK’s Poetry, Satire &
Short Stories sites:
#32 Short stories,
etc.
#33 Satire
#34 Rhymed
poems
#39 Rhymed poems romantic
#40 Rhymed
poems melancholy
#42 Rhymed
poems social message
#43 Rhymed poems satire
California Skeptics has an excellent collection of political cartoons and huge collection of links to sites with political cartoons and animation
We appreciate feedback. Contact US
at thinker@skeptically.org.
Moreover, JK has something to say, and he likes saying
it. He has written several works of fiction in need of a publisher. Can you help?
Just as Socrates/Plato wrote on many things, to which the totality thereof constituted an overall weltanschauung, for which
only an extensive reading of the works of Plato along with an understanding of the issues he addressed would open the doors
of their perceptions; so too does the collection of material presented by me require a reading to understand my mind and how
thus how I have taken their foundation and adapted it to the truths of our era.
In order to know what is one must know what isn't. This site addresses popular delusion,
and also to provide the tools to recognize delusions.
MEDICAL LINKS
This site is one of 3 sites maintained by California Skeptics
All with cool art and informative articles 9/6/18
#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.
#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.
#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day
#209 THE ARTISTS
# 180 RECOMMENDED WESTERN DIET PANDEMIC, high fructose diet and its conditions—proofs
#158 RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE Gateway to the research on pharma and health
#152 RECOMMENDED--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, treatments & supplements,
#161 RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet and nutritional science
#185 RECOMMENDED FRUCTOSE PAMDEMIC BOOK fructose makes us sick book in preparation
#157 Video documentaries lectures YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description
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The Greek Philosophers self-servingly (for
they were the teachers) held that an essential condition for the development of right character of the upper class citizens
consisted in instructing their sons in philosophy (which in those times also included the now separate fields of sciences,
social science, political science, mathematics, and literary analyisis) so that their rational nature could guide
their actions and thus dominate in prudent ways over their animal side. Their students would learn to be free through
rational understanding the frightful superstitious beliefs of the masses including their brand of religion. As their
students developed they would come to understand the conditions necessary to live the good life and have sufficient to
control--if not abjectly poor--to fulfill those conditions.
The good life included in--given the unstable political conditions--fulfilling
obligations to the state, so as to avoid becoming an outcast. It also consisted of living in moderation, of having control--as
a rational animal--over ones desires, to seek the purer pleasures, of which those arising from quite contemplation while being
at peace with oneself ranked as the purest. A person living the good life exercised and participated in sports, enjoyed the
fine arts, was honorable, had a group of noble companions, and of course had the skills of a philosopher (the term which means
"lover of wisdom).
There were of course disagreement among the different schools of Greek Philosophy, but compared to their agreement about the
good-life, it was minor. Epicurus as leader of the Greek Atomists best and succinctly voiced what the good-life is. A revival
of his teachings occurred with Gassandi--and others--in 17th-century Europe. This culminated with utilitarianism (see my
other site). I hold this theory of ethics to be an improvement upon the Greek Ethics in its metaethical foundation and prescriptions
for society.
Utilitarianism in my life occupies a place comparable to that of a religion, but without the need
to believe in that which given the totality of evidence is quite unbelievable.
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