The Fundamentalist And The Moderate

An argument for the case that the religious moderate is not a lot more rational than a fundamentalist, if at all.

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Religion and Morality

Religion and its relation to Morality

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A comparison of Indian and American cultures from a rational perspective.

I came to the US in 2003, which means I have been here for more than 5 years. Living in two very different cultures can be a bit disorienting at times. An immigrant like myself will interact with fellow Indians in India, Indians in the US, and of course, Americans in the US. And the [...]

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Arundhati Roy – Wisdom, Wit, and Beauty

A very rare lady – beautiful as much on the inside as on the outside. The only thing I knew about her was that she was a novelist who had won the Booker prize. I recently came across these speeches recently and I found them incredibly insightful, witty, and moving. The fact that she expresses [...]

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Buying a Car

For a “country that runs on roads”, there is a surprising lack of variety in cars in the US. The American fascination with big things also carries over to cars. Small cars are virtually non-existent with gigantic SUVs ruling the roads. So when I looked toward buying my first car over here, there were very [...]

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Thoughts on Hunting

I recently came across this on the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Hi,
Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It’s a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal [...]

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