#WB Philosophy
What is the difference between secular and public spirituality?
Public spirituality is what a culture accepts as spiritual. Secular spirituality is spirituality guided by nature rather than supernatural authority.
What is spirituality?
How we explore meaning, connection, mystery, and the self.
What is Eastern “chee,” or qi?
Qi is the Eastern idea of vital flow: the breath-like energy of life moving through body, nature, and reality.
Why can’t we divide by zero?
Math reveals patterns in reality, but also the boundaries of reason. Reality may be deeper than current math. But we should not pretend an invalid ...
When does religious belief become harmful?
To live your life well-lived, decide where belief belongs. Private meaning can guide your life, but when your belief affects others, you must answer to ...
Can Carl Jung’s shadow work help us think well?
Facing the hidden parts of yourself is shadow work. Notice the hidden stories rising from within you, then slow down, test them, and decide how ...
Is Richard Dawkins right that religious belief is harmful?
Religion is not automatically harmful. It can become dangerous when a specific private speculation is promoted as empirically or rationally true. Belief without evidence must ...
Is fiction part of journalism?
Fiction is not journalism, but understanding fiction helps us understand where journalism begins and ends.
Is history a Truth Hammer?
History is a disciplined extension of the journalism truth hammer. Using historical traces like a reporter, historians create stories of the past like a journalist.
What does quantum tunneling imply about metaphysics?
Tunneling shows that quantum systems do not behave classically,along smooth, continuous paths. It's real, the math works, but the metaphysics remains unsettled.
Do the empirical and rational categories apply to vocabulary words?
Words are empirical when they directly describe the material world, and rational when they help structure, organize, relate, or evaluate ideas.
Is 30 Philosophers a philosophical apologia?
30 Philosophers is TST’s historical-philosophical defense in story form: a journey through human thought showing why TST needs realism, evidence, reason, and calibrated belief.
Is there an answer to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”?
Consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to nature. It may be what happens when evolutionary feedback loops become emotional, predictive, and self-modeling.
Should Democrats support the coal industry?
Embracing pragmatism, reframing coal as a temporary civilizational insurance policy turns it from a climate liability into an emergency asset.
How does TST handle language and definitions?
The words you encounter each day help you understand truth, but they never become the world itself. Treat language and definitions as useful tools, not ...
How does the idea of Identity in Christ fit within TST?
TST respects religious self/non-self teachings, but treats them as personal meaning frameworks rather than as rational truths.
What does superposition tell us about metaphysics?
Superposition reminds us that reality is stranger than everyday experience suggests. Even scientists do not know exactly what lies beneath it all. Leave room for ...
Has belief in determinism influenced science?
Belief in determinism has deeply shaped science by encouraging thinkers to search for order, causes, and laws beneath nature’s surface.
How does Schrödinger’s Cat relate to wave-particle duality and the multiverse?
Schrödinger’s Cat turns quantum weirdness into a visible drama. It takes the strange logic of superposition and asks what it would mean if that same ...
Does Agrippa’s Trilemma disprove the Idea of Ideas?
Agrippa's Trilemma argues that no belief can achieve ultimate justification through human thought alone. That does not break the Idea of Ideas, it proves it. ...