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Or believing versus knowing

It has come to our attention that religious thinking has been spreading to other matters. By religious thinking I mean opinions that are believed or claimed as fact, without question and with nothing more substantial that a nudist’s pants to support them. Such unsupported ideas have appeared in politics, diet, clothing, and just about everything else, even in the hard sciences. It might be easier to say that it appears that more people are taking their ...

I listened to Bob Dylan’s song "With God On Our Side” (link below) today, and it occurred to me that there might be something to it. And I also noticed that the song refers to “god”, rather than the “Gods”, a singular, monotheist god, and the people who believe that they have god on their side are monotheists. We polytheists worry as much about which God is on the other guy’s side as much we crow about the Gods (if any) on our side, and we have no problem imagining that the other guy actually ...

Asperger's Syndrome in a syndrome in individuals that is typified by talking a lot, usually about a favorite subject in one-sided conversations in which the one with Asperger’s will not admit the possibility that he is wrong. People with Asperger’s also lack empathy, do not pick up on social cues and may lack inborn social skills, such as being able to read others' body language, recognize subtle differences in speech tone, pitch, and accent that alter the meaning of others, speech may be flat and ...