Rationalism Explorer Gifts

Descartes's Demon

Henri Bergson

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

Fear/Knowledge

Reagacentennial

"Um, I notice there's nothing in here about pork."

'Wow! -- Talk about a paradigm shift!'

"This may surprise some of your viewers, but I didn't actually want to go into the box."

The World's Biggest Book Club

'You won't believe this, but even if the vaccine works, they wont give it to other sick mice.'

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting. With free speech, sometimes I think that you get what you pay for!

'Is there an E-Reader Edition?'

'You're in luck. Business ethics is a gray area.'

Einstein discovers that time can stop completely.

What can I get you? An explanation for why we haven't gone back to the moon. Would you like the rational explanation or the Youtube explanation? Rational would be lovely, please. Ok. We never went back to the moon because there was no reason to. The whole point of Apollo was to reassure the free world that we could beat the Soviet Union. Mission accomplished. Oh ... that's it? Well, that's rather bland. Could I exchange that for the Youtube explanation? The lizard-men who live on the film set wh

Roger feels that there are only two inante instincts in men and women. One is satisfaction of biological needs...the other is self-actualization.

"Yes, but you were the defender of the wrong faith."

From what I hear, the Atwood Intuition Tank is coming up with results faster than we are.

'Just think of one of these as enabling legislation for the golden rule.'

'Marx and Engels - why they split.'

The Truth

'Yep, that does sound like an ethical dilemma, Phil. But relax... it's only a problem if you have a conscience.' 'That's just it! I think I do!!' 'Don't worry, I won't tell a soul.'

Ethics ethics.

'I find it harder and harder to get any work done with all the ethicists hanging around.'

'The economy today got a boost from Alan Greenspan, who said it's O.K. to be irrationally exuberant.'

'I look only for the good in everyone...but I only ever find it in myself.'

'Sorry - I only donate big.'

'Thoreau, doing research on chapter 7'

"If you want my opinion you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."

'A doctor in the hospital's basement agonizes over the ethics of pulling the plug its ailing furnace.'

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

'Perhaps we do need a plan 'B'.'

"I just completely disagree with what you just said about America lacking focus."

Tonight's topic Ethical behavior. Personally, I let my conscience by my guide, but I do the driving!

Religion & Economics.