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A Fallacy in Personal Responsibility: Part III. (A Public Letter and Reflection.)

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**Dear[est] Grimmi :** I was moved to hear you read about my Sun Sign. Maybe this will help you understand the basic mindset typical of it. The simplest summary of Pisces as perspective is the most self-evident: the interpenetration and interdependence of all beings. I am as responsible for those around me and for their well-being as I am for mine, and, so, “in turn”, the Other is responsible for my well-being every bit as much as I am. If the Other acts in such a way that harms me, I may bear the guilt and shame for that transgression, since I’d rather be inclined to feel the Other’s feelings of revulsion rather than to shut them out. Yet it is not the Truth that this is just, since I am only made to feel this same revulsion since the Other chooses me to be the scapegoat when I’ve been the victim, so as not to recognize his own transgression. This refusal to admit of one’s own moral failings is the source of that “philosophy” that says, “Take care of *your* self first.” It is delusio...

When Was Gravity Created? [a Critique of Pseudoscientific Skepticism:]

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**When was gravity created?** Ask yourself this question anytime you want to say of any concept or phenomenon that it lacks “scientific evidence”. So what? The Earth existed long before there was geology, and Life existed long before there was biology. We don’t invent the facts that science finds; if science truly has been based on fact, then facts precede all scientific theory and, as such, all scientific evidence.   A fact is that which must remain a fact although it is ignored. How is this not the case with something like astrology? The stars existed long before there was astrology, astronomy, or astronautics. Yet the findings of astrologers are not *invalidated* by the findings of astronomers or astronauts; they simply don’t agree. The scientific landscape must be riddled with discrepancies, and even the most stringent of philosophers of science ( Bertrand Russell, for example ) say these contradictions are to be expected. We have had to deal with Gravity for centuries up...