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Category: Social

Posted on 2017-08-02

Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil

by Ryan Merkley, August 1, 2017 https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/01/bassel/ [see also our previous post http://positivists.org/blog/archives/5296] We are deeply saddened and completely outraged to learn today that our friend and colleague Bassel... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-04-182016-05-03

Some Thoughts on Objectivity, Subjectivity and Interpretation (1)

This was a recent Quora question and it keeps puzzling me. Is reality subjective or objective? If it is subjective is every interpretation of it correct? It is not that difficult to reject this question as what it is: an assumption supported by an... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-04-152016-05-10

The Bardens vs Lanka Case | Chronolgy and documentation

This page is an open series of entries on the Bardens vs. Lanka case. It has been of wider interest since had immediately offered the judgments in the case triggered by Stefan Lanka‘s challenge of 2011 (see documents at the bottom of this... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-03-272016-05-12

Drei Tage in einer Facebook-Hass-Gruppe “vernunftorientierter Atheisten”

  Was brachte mich auf diese Seite? Gar keine so abwegige Frage. Eine Rekalibrierung meiner politischen Koordinaten durch Facebook, nachdem ich mich mit mehr Spaß mit einem Facebook Freund unterhielt, der hier schon war? Vernunftorientiere... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-03-232016-05-12

Three Days in a Facebook Hate Group of “Atheists Guided by Reason”

  How did I get into this group? And where is it gone all of a sudden? It has left my Facebook stream of notifications – I did not receive a note that I have been excommunicated. The content is “no longer available”, as if Facebook has... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-02-292016-03-16

All God’s Twitter Accounts

You are an atheist and fear that God might actually exist? A Christian, Jew or Moslem in fear that he might not? Relax and get all the the emanations collected on this site from all the Twitter accounts we have heard of. The scene is in silent turmoil... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-02-262016-05-24

4 Years Later 400 Facebook Fans: Insight

We have silently taken the 400 fans threshold this week with our Facebook page. That is not very much and I will make this a silent post just with a bit of statistics and insight. We are making 100 new fans per year. You really do better with an... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-02-202016-03-16

The Regressive Left and its Own Brand of Racism | a brief provocation

The regressive left accuses the progressive left of being Islamophobic, racist and Eurocentric, to be culturally imperialistic and to have rejected multiculturalism out of purely elitist snobbishness. Objectively cultures may also just compete,... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-02-142016-02-19

Yanis Varoufakis’ #DiEM25 – The European Union will be democratised. Or it will disintegrate!

“DiEM25 – The European Union will be democratised. Or it will disintegrate!” Nine pages of a classical manifesto in the tradition of André Breton’s memorable Surrealist Manifestos signed by by the DiEM25 movement. The letters are... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2016-01-032016-02-23

Is Germany just really good at preventing terrorist attacks or do Islamic terrorists just not choose to attack them?

Quora, and I have once again no clue whether it makes sense to give all the answers anyone could give. Perhaps in order to state that even Islamic terrorism might not be completely irrational, a simple dehumanization, the result of the Quran now taken... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-12-162016-02-18

Fighting terrorism – we are making friends again

These are the present calls to register for the German Army and to get involved in the “global war on terrorism” — pictures taken at Gotha’s train station, 2015. “You will not extinguish the fires of the world with... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-11-292016-02-26

#MissingBassel – time to make your first Wikidata edits

We fear for the life of our fellow Wikipedian, Bassel Khartabil. Amnesty International has it that he is likely sentenced to death, his bed in prison is no longer his. What can we do when a fellow Wikipedian is in mortal peril? We can either wave our... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-11-162016-06-13

Why I am already fed up with #Praying4Paris

All this #Praying4Paris is already getting on my nerves (just as the atheist counter memes, that we’d all be happier in a world without religious fanatics). What we are watching here is a massive production of wool that is immediately creeping into... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-09-282016-05-24

Patheos | An Interview with Dale McGowan, managing editor of the Patheos Atheist Channel

The following is an interview with Dale McGowan, managing editor, of the Atheist Channel on Patheos – an interview about what is probably the most exciting web platform of inter- and supra-religious dialogue to be found on the web:... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-07-132016-02-18

Saving Wikipedia (3): The questionable moral superiority of Wikipedia authorship

If there is one thing the early 18th century has taught me, it is that we are all eventually paid in the same three currencies. Whatever we do, we do it for physical pleasure, social prestige or money. Money is, of course, the most usual currency in... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-07-022016-02-18

Saving Wikipedia (2): The medium of second-hand knowledge

Why is it that Wikipedia is a man’s world? Why is our community 90% male, mostly white, either young or retired, mostly nerds, people whom you will not meet in clubs, a high rate of temporary singles… and mostly amateurs in the fields of their... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-06-292016-02-18

Saving Wikipedia (1): TIME for the fairy

New Heroines

The golden days of Wikipedia, the days of unlimited growth, are over. Yes, we are still getting new articles. But this is basically because we have a couple of open areas like plane crashes, new wars, new movies, new celebrities that generate this... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-05-302018-04-13

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Posted on 2015-05-122016-02-18

Comte’s cerebral hygiene finally rehabilited – C. P. G. Grey’s viral message on viral memes

This video has gone viral. It is wonderfully concise and designed to be both haunting and self-reflexive. We are all subjected to these viral pieces of information. We see them, they trigger an emotion, and all we have to do is press share ore like... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2015-03-232016-05-09

The Bardens vs. Lanka Case | an Interview with David Bardens

[Click here for the orginal German version of this interview. Follow http://positivists.org/blog/archives/3881 for the successive case documentation. Olaf Simons asked the questions for positivists.org] Olaf Simons: You are in the headlines with an... Read More | Share it now!

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Recent Posts

  • Why do people think objectivity exists? 2017-10-08
  • CFP: British Literature and Sociology, 1838-1910 2017-08-21
  • Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil 2017-08-02
  • Ein kurzer Zwischenruf gegen das angeblich so positive Engagement der Verschwörungstheoretiker 2017-05-12
  • What is the best answer to someone who says the universe is only 6,000 years old? 2017-03-15
  • The Last Religion | An interview with Hugo Pinto 2017-02-17
  • Atheist Dogmatics (1): Atheism is not a belief but the *absence* of belief 2016-05-26
  • Ich bin zutiefst besorgt über das politische Klima in Deutschland | Interview mit David Bardens nach dem zweiten Urteil im “Masernprozess” 2016-05-05
  • Lorraine J. Daston & Peter Galison, Objectivity (New York: Zone Books, 2007) | Review 2016-04-18
  • Some Thoughts on Objectivity, Subjectivity and Interpretation (1) 2016-04-18

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