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Welcome to the RLW podcast!

Oct

15

2018

You can find The RLW Show on any major podcasting platform, including Apple Podcasts. Although it’s starting simply as an audio version of my Introduction to Epistemology videos, I have some ideas of where I’m going to take it in the future, not least to host my Robert Interviews an Atheist series I already have been planning. Let ...

The God Delusion: The Roots of Religion and Morality (Chapters 5 & 6) 3

Oct

8

2018

This post is part of a series on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The previous post was The Anthropic Principle and Boltzmann Brains (Chapters 3 & 4) and the next post is Are The Bible and Religion Poisons To Society? (Chapters 7 & 8). In continuing my discussion of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, ...

The God Delusion: The Anthropic Principle and Boltzmann Brains (Chapters 3 & 4) 2

Dec

18

2017

This post is part of a series on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The previous was Respect, Burden of Proof, and Spaghetti (Chapters 1 & 2) and the next post covers The Roots of Religion and Morality (Chapters 5 & 6). Hello again, and sorry for the delay. The biggest reasons for it were a ...

The God Delusion: Respect, Burden of Proof, and Spaghetti (Chapters 1 & 2) 4

Nov

6

2017

This post is part of a series on The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The previous post was an introduction on bias, and the next post is The Anthropic Principle and Boltzmann Brains (Chapters 3 & 4). In my last post, I set the stage for discussing The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I’m planning ...

On Bias 6

Oct

25

2017

Hi there. It’s been a while since I’ve done a philosophical post, but all the more reason to jump back in! After my debate with Manny, and subsequent reading of the book he recommended, Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God, I’ve been on a bit of a theism vs atheism kick, and decided to read probably ...

Being grateful without being in denial 5

Jan

21

2015

The Problem In the past year I’ve seen multiple articles posted on social media about the importance of having gratitude if you want to be happy. Most self-help books would probably say the exact same thing; after all, it really seems obvious that gratitude is important for happiness. At the same time, for me and ...

Why I Believe

May

29

2014

I wrote a while back on my experiences with doubt. After getting some feedback from that post, I figure it’s best that I quickly summarize where I am now in my beliefs. The funny thing looking back on the matter is that I was probably deepest in doubt before I really started to investigate the relevant issues. ...

The Darkness of Doubt 8

Jan

2

2014

Doubt sucks. It might be necessary, it might even be good, but at its worst it has also been probably the most painful thing I’ve experienced in my life so far. Unfortunately, I think it’s something unavoidable for me, since I do care a great deal about making sure that what I believe in is, ...