Bridget Phillipson is both attractive and comes over as much more emotionally authentic than the majority of politicians, male or female. Someone to watch for the future. (View Post)

The Enlightenment though in fact blended Christian concepts of individual dignity with Classical concepts. We are a mix of a lot of things, really. (View Post)

I would say that, to put it a bit more accurately, U.S. politicians weren't getting public declarations of uncertainty from their own institutions on this until five years ago. That's the o… (View Post)

The current wave of interest hasn't come from a new religious movement, but from the U.S. navy and Pentagin issuing bizarre videos in around 2017 that it publicly declared not being able to unde… (View Post)

I think part of the reason is that it has become an article of faith that UAP/UFO issues are for crazies, and that that cultural framing is very hard to overcome, particularly in a very often statist… (View Post)