The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Monday, February 16, 2009

Taylor Swift: Beautiful Girl.

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I'm not a big fan of country music. But the song in the link above is quite catchy and is what my wife would call a "happy song...
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Friday, January 23, 2009

And Yet Another Thought.

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The innocent man is by necessity inculpable, however the inculpable man is not by necessity innocent.

Some More Thoughts for the Day on Moral Objects.

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Intention of will(Finis Operantis): The appetite directed toward a certain ontic state; the desired state being its "object". Inte...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Thought for the day.

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When we act, we attempt to instantiate our intentions.
Friday, January 09, 2009

Psychological axioms.

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The ultimate female fantasy is to have the one man that all the other females desperately want , but HER special uniqueness, her beauty, her...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Too much flesh, not enough class.

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Summer in Australia is a feast for the lecher but a famine for the aesthete. I'm by no ways a prude but I must admit that I find that ex...
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Friday, January 02, 2009

Beauty Queens

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Both of these women are attractive and yet one is more beautiful than the other. Both were contemporaries and both were the object of much m...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

Deceptive Packaging.

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It's a sad fact of life that you can't judge a book by its cover. Likewise it's also true that you really can't judge people...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Day the Earth Got Bored.

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I went out with a friend tonight to see the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still. My advice to potential viewers, stay at home. Don't ev...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Disdain.

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Over the past few days I've been over at Dennis Mangan's arguing that one cannot be a Conservative and an atheist at the same time:...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Merry Christmas.

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To my small band of readers , peace and goodwill to you all this Christmas time. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and th...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Dead White Man. No 1

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I don't have White guilt and have always preferred civilization to savagery, light to darkness. Other civilizations have had their achie...
Monday, December 08, 2008

The Darkness.

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Some of the luminaries of the "Secular Conservative" fold have started a new blog site . Predictably religion was dissed almost im...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

The paradox of extravagance.

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John Maynard Keynes was profoundly influential in the field of economics, which is a bit of a shame because some of what he said needed to ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Sculptor of flesh, healer of souls.

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It's been a rather unsettling week, meditating on ugliness and disfigurement. I would like to end it on some thoughts with regard to pl...

The truly disfigured.

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Here's a link to a rather revolting You Tube video. For our more delicate readers, caution , it contains I suppose you could say sexua...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Elephant Men

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Its not very often that I read something that sends me into a bit of a rage. But anyway, this week I did. I will not link to the piece, sin...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Form without function.

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Farnsworth house is truly beautiful architecture. Designed by Mies van der Rohe for a prominent urologist, Dr. Edith Farnsworth. The house i...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Form follows function.

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No it doesn't. Engineering is one of those fields where economy and efficiency of materials are highly prized. It, perhaps more than ar...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Deals structured by cows.

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Imagine a wealthy landowner (A) who has a herd of 1000 cows. Suppose this landowner was old and pre-occupied and found it difficult to look ...
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