‘Commentary’ Archives
Keep The Door Open
By Peter Molenaar In consequence to May’s column “Mind and Body Unite”, I did catch some flak from the comrades. Hey, can’t a lonely atheist do a little outreach? Well you, Peter, by opening the door to agnosticism have, at the very least, looked upon a “slippery slope”. Decide, please. All right then, I shall open the door even [...]
The “Laws of War” are the worst idea ever
Just like the “Iraq War”, Obama is now putting a projected “deadline” to end the “Afghan War”, is this even possible? How can he say that the 2014 deadline will mean that “the Afghan War as we understand it is over” --it appears he doesn’t understand “war”. If he is in a real “war”, then the “war” decides when it [...]
KEEP THE DOOR OPEN
By Peter Molenaar In consequence to May’s column “Mind and Body Unite”, I did catch some flak from the comrades. Hey, can’t a lonely atheist do a little outreach? Well you, Peter, by opening the door to agnosticism have, at the very least, looked upon a “slippery slope”. Decide, please. All right then, I shall open the door [...]
The “Laws of War” are the worst idea ever
Just like the “Iraq War”, Obama is now putting a projected “deadline” to end the “Afghan War”, is this even possible? How can he say that the 2014 deadline will mean that “the Afghan War as we understand it is over” --it appears he doesn’t understand “war”. If he is in a real “war”, then the “war” decides when it [...]
War cannot be created
“War” cannot not be created like a basketball game…meaning you can create a basketball game by doing basketball things, but you cannot create “war”, which is the freedom to kill and destroy, by doing warlike things. You cannot get “war” from doing “war”, “war” cannot create itself. The problem is, we believe “war” [...]
Mind And Body Unite
By Peter Molenaar After thirty-three years of hard labor in the neighborhood iron foundry, one would expect this writer to have resolved the question surrounding the apparent duality between mind and body. He certainly has had ample time to think about it with his nose before the grinding wheel. It is a vexing problem. If after all our [...]
