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Remember this catchy, defiantly anti-religious song we brought to your attention in October? Well now Shelley Segal’s An Atheist Album is available for downlaod and I have taken a listen to it and I am extremely pleased with it and can totally recommend it if you like the video above at all. I am always [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Shelley Segal’s “An Atheist Album” Is Very Good
November 30th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Music Reviews, Music Reviews 
7 Comments »Greta Deftly and Thoroughly Explains Atheist Anger To The Bewildered
November 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Greta’s talk at Skepticon IV hits the nail on the head about the nature and justification of atheist anger: Her blog post on atheists and anger from 2007 is a definitive go-to piece for me when I am asked about atheist anger. Your Thoughts?
Patton Oswalt Savaging Awful Christmas Song
November 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A holiday chestnut: Your Thoughts?
Fellow Atheists, What Do You Like Or Dislike In Holiday Cards?
November 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Marta is one of my Christian friends who comments a lot around here and always seems to sympathize with my secular values quite a bit. She raises a good question that I’d love to see you readers address: I wonder about your thoughts on atheism/secularism and holiday cards? Recently I tried to find some cards [...]
Is Occupy Wall Street “Doing It Rong”?
November 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Crommunist argues no, challenging the historical validity of oft-heard memes how successful protest movements are “supposed to” work: “The Occupy people don’t have a plan! All successful protest movements have clear goals and plans that are defined before the protest starts!” I suppose the second statement there is pure implication from the first. The truth, [...]
If You Don’t Believe In Objective Values, Then Don’t Talk To Me About Objective Scientific Truth Either
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I recently argued that when any of us act, we must act for reasons. When acting for reasons we must decide that the end we pursue is the best, most worthwhile, goal to pursue and that the action we take in order to achieve that goal is the most suitable one. I should also add [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Authority, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Evidence, Evidence, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Metaethics, Metaethics, Morality, Morality, Naturalistic Fallacy, Naturalistic Fallacy, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Science, Science, Teleology, Teleology 
Tags: Coherency, Coherency Theory of Truth, Epistemic Normativity, Fictionalism in Science, Goodness is Effectiveness, Incoherency of Moral Nihilism, Moral Nihilism, Moral Normativity, Morals and Values, Naturalistic Fallacy, Normativity, Norms and Moral Norms, Norms and Values, Objective Values, Objectivity in Reason, Positivistic Nietzscheanism, Presuppositionalism, Problem of Induction, Scientific Truth vs. Moral Truth, Subjective Values, Subjectivity in Reason, Values in Reason, Values in Science, Values Nihilism 109 Comments »Token Skeptic Podcast on Sexism and the Internet
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Ugh, is vile misogyny ever epidemic on the internet. Token Skeptic interviews three female bloggers about it. The interviews are most interesting and I also fell in love with a couple of the women who did the intros to the podcast based on their awesome accents and acting abilities alone (and in spite of the [...]
My Review of the New Dorito
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Christians like to claim that there is a “God-shaped hole” in all of us. But as anyone who knows me knows, all I have is a triangular shaped hole which can only be filled by Doritos. So, it is an important occasion each time they release a new flavor. Last night for the first time, [...]
Get The Ultimate Power Balance Band
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Finally a Power Balance wrist band which promises to use a proven method for helping athletes perform better: The Sunny Skeptic reviews it: A friend gave me the most excellent present ever, a Placebo Band! I put it on, stood in the middle of the circle in my wrestler stance and said “TRY to knock [...]
Cartoon Eye Balls Make Everything More Fun
November 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Pareidolia anyone? From Timm Schneider’s art project They Live. See more. Via Laughing Squid (no relation to PZ. That I know of.) Photo by Amanda Moulson of Turnstyle News Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Novelties, Pop Culture, Pop Culture Tags: Art From Everyday Objects, Cartoon Eye Balls, Cookie Monster 1 Comment »Does This Count As A “Caturday” Post?
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I’m not at all a cat person but I just think these classic album covers recreated with cats are funny. But by posting this on a Saturday does that make this my capitulation to the Caturday craze or do I have to intend to make a Caturday post for it to be one? via Your [...]
60-Second Adventures In Thought
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A beautifully done, charming cartoon on the history of thought experiments: Are all the ideas accurately explained? Your Thoughts?
Flying Spaghetti Monster Wedding Cake
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Behold the wedding cake of the future in which atheists attain supreme, hegemonic cultural control: via Friendly Atheist More awesome cakes here. Awesomely terrible cakes here. Your Cakes?
Arnold Schwarzenegger Explains Total Recall For Us
November 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Rather hilariously, Arnold seems to think the point of a DVD commentary is to narrate the film for the viewers: Less hilariously, he was elected governor of California. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Film, Hilarious, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Total Recall 2 Comments »The Emotions You SHOULDN’T Blame Anyone For Having
November 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke In the last several posts I’ve written about ethics, I have been talking in part about the various ways in which we are ethically responsible for our emotions and for reasoning through them. One thing worth to make explicit, which I simply assumed people would understand, is that I have been talking in those posts [...]
Why Bother Blaming People At All? Isn’t That Just Judgmental?
November 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Before moving on to addressing the question of when it is right or wrong to get offended, let me quickly address a certain attitude that arises a lot in response to my posts on morality. I sense in the tone of a lot of comments I get in general that there is a fear of [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Christianity, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Jesus, Jesus, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Rationalism, Virtues, Virtues Tags: Blame, Blame and Determinism, Determinism, Free Will, Immoralism, Judgmentalism, Moralism 32 Comments »Learning About Love From The Bible
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Using the “New Comprehensive Self-Referencing, Taking The Words on the Page To Mean What They Actually Say Version” of the Bible (that’s the NCSRTTWOTPTMWTASV), NonStampCollector shows us how the biblical God of love (the God who is love) models and illuminates for us all the virtues of love described in 1 Corinthians 13: Your Thoughts?
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving GOP Debate
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This slayed me. Tears leaking out of the sides of my eyes funny: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Satire, Satire, Unintentional Comedy Tags: GOP Debates, Jimmy Kimmel, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry 3 Comments »Thanks
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke First, let me quickly thank you, whoever you are, for reading this. I do not know even a fraction of all of you thousands of people who traffic through Camels With Hammers all week but your presence is my adrenaline which motivates me to think harder and write smarter in order to keep you interested [...]
Yes, We Can Blame People For Their Feelings, Not Just Their Actions
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke “You can’t blame people for how they feel, only for what they do.” “You have every right to be offended, but you don’t have the right to censor others just because you’re offended.” In this post and the next one, I want to explain why I think these two common moral sentiments are quite mistaken—or, [...]
On Not-Pologies, Forgiveness, and Gelato
November 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Kinds of Forgiveness Let’s start with the theoretical. How should we characterize forgiveness, and when and why should we forgive people? Full forgiveness involves three things: 1. Waiving all just moral and/or legal penalties, including all forms of restitution and compensation, that we would normally demand for wrongdoing. 2. Restoring amicable emotional, social, and/or professional [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Ethics, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, News Discussion, News Discussion, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Virtues, Virtues 39 Comments »Sam Singleton’s Revival Act That Began Gelatogate
November 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke Andy Drennen saw a portion of this act and had this response: Once the store slowed down, I decided to walk down the street to learn more about the convention, fully thinking it was something involving UFOs (“skeptics”). What I saw instead was a man conducting a mock sermon, reading the bible and cursing it. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, PZ Myers, PZ Myers 32 Comments »
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