When the U.S. civil rights movement gained renewed momentum in the 1950’s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the most prominent voice and face of the movement. Dr. King was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and espoused non-violent civil disobedience as the method for achieving the objectives of the movement. If you watch videos of…
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Elliott Andrews is an observer and a seeker. He feels that humans rely too much on emotion at this phase of our evolution and that logic is underutilized in personal and political discourse.
More Spock’s Constructs
In a previous blog, I discussed how humans create constructs, narratives, paradigms or presuppositions to fill the gaps between what we observe and what we can’t explain. That article logically leads to the question, “what are More Spock’s presuppositions – what are the things More Spock believes to be true that are unprovable?” Here are…
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I once took a graduate level theology course. Our first assignment was to write a paper outlining our presuppositions. The professor defined presuppositions as those things you believe to be true that are not provable by science. As you would expect in a theology class, most of the students began by stating that they believed…
Continue ReadingWhy “More Spock”?
I had certainly noticed the trend during the Bush and Obama years that CNN/MSNBC and Fox News alternated between being essentially state media when their guy was in office and opposition media when the other guy was in office. This really ramped up during the Trump years to a theater of the absurd, at least…
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