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By Michael Collins Morton

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An Impartial Consideration of God, Offered in the Form of Eleven Questions and Eleven Answers

By Michael Collins Morton
1. Is there actually a God? That question has never been, and probably never will be, answered with any degree of certainty on this side of the eternal void, but the common evidence seen within our human experience appears to strongly betoken the unmistakable likelihood of a God, regardless of whether we are fully disposed to accept such a likelihood or not. 2. Is there actually a heaven and a hell? As with the question of God, the question of heaven and hell is an exceedingly difficult question, with no definitive answer currently forthcoming, but one thing, at least, seems readily apparent: any presumption of heaven is, necessarily, dependent on an equivalent presumption of hell, and vice versa. 3. Which of the brands of religion approved by convention provides the most effective path to discerning, accessing, and comprehending the truth of God? The answer to that question is, quite clearly, an awkward matter of divided opinion and heated disputes, with every brand of religion being ...
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Artificial Intelligence Is an Enemy of Human Values

By Michael Collins Morton
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being forced upon us by our corporate masters, who seek to use it for the foul purpose of controlling our lives. Day by day, artificial intelligence is expanding its repugnant dominion, deeply encroaching on our daily experience, crudely violating the integrity of our thoughts, our beliefs, our feelings, our motives, our decisions, and our actions, thereby irrevocably diminishing our worth as human beings. Unquestionably, artificial intelligence is an enemy of human values. Under the alluring guise of "convenience," the fundamental principles that provide a foundation for the regular course of human activity are being perverted by sinister tools that have the potential to brutally override our intentions, depriving us of the ability, and the right, to make our own choices and determine our own destiny. We are being pushed into a high-tech dictatorship. Those who promote the acceptance of artificial intelligence are tricksters. The distr...
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Israel and Palestine: A Bitter Conflict with Only One Morally Acceptable Solution

By Michael Collins Morton
On October 7, 2023, members of Hamas, an Islamist organization with a long record of carrying out acts of vengeance in the Middle East, launched a surprise assault against Israel, its sworn enemy, ruthlessly killing a number of Israeli civilians and quickly inciting a major war that threatens to engulf the entire region. Israel, in keeping with its usual practice when challenged by enemies, has savagely responded with a fearsome display of wholesale violence toward the unarmed Palestinians who live in Gaza, the narrow piece of land alongside Israel, into which more than two million Palestinians have been herded by the Israeli government. When Israel was founded as a state in 1948, murderously brought into being by gangs of Zionists, dedicated to fascism and racism, who boldly claimed the territory of Palestine as their own with malign support from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, it was a clear instance of shameless, unforgivable wrongdoing. The unfortunate people of ...
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Eric Clapton at the Cow Palace, July 1974

By Michael Collins Morton
Eric Clapton was born in 1945, in Surrey, England, and began to play the guitar as a teenager. He was especially drawn to the earthy sound of American music, particularly the blues of Robert Johnson, Freddie King, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy. At the age of seventeen he joined The Roosters, and later played with Casey Jones and The Engineers. In October, 1963, he joined The Yardbirds, staying with them until March, 1965, and appearing on their first album, Five Live Yardbirds,  which was recorded during a performance at the Marquee Club in London and released in 1964. (It was during this time that Eric Clapton gained the nickname of "Slowhand.") When The Yardbirds had a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States with "For Your Love" (written by Graham Gouldman), Eric Clapton became unhappy and resolved to quit the band, saying that he wanted only to play authentic blues. After Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, he accepted an offer to play with Joh...
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The Stark Evil of Artificial Intelligence

By Michael Collins Morton
Among the many forms of evil that have arisen in the 21st century, the stark evil of artificial intelligence (commonly known as AI) is one of the worst, displaying a self-evident potential to thoroughly destroy the fundamental integrity of the human community. Unfortunately, AI is quickly becoming an unavoidable factor in the overall framework of everyday life, and, as a heinous result, has begun to stealthily degrade the most definitive elements of our collective mentality. As always with threats to essential values, corporations lead the way in the use of AI, regarding it as a handy means of hugely increasing the already excessive return from their lucrative activities. AI offers corporations the opportunity to summarily rid themselves of their employees, thereby enabling greedy CEOs to expand their private wealth. As AI takes greater hold within the wicked realm of business, countless workers will be deprived of their livelihood. To an alarming degree, the regular content of the med...
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