Housework and Responsibility

By Adam J. Pearson It is an age-old question: who should be responsible for housework? Everyday tasks like doing the dishes, doing laundry, vaccuuming, cleaning the kitchen and so on are part of daily living. If people are living together, then who can justifiably be expected to handle these tasks, and in what proportion?  To…

Atheism, Buddhism, and the Question of ‘Belief Systems’

By Adam J. Pearson Today, I came across some people who were debating the subject of belief systems.  One of the debaters claimed that atheism is a belief system and the other, that it is not. To address the question of whether atheism is or is not a belief system, we must first ask: what is…

Disbelief Often Implies Belief

By Adam J. Pearson Disbelief often logically implies belief. Why? Suppose a person disbelieves in the truth of statement X. As a consequence of not believing in X, it can also be asserted that they believe also that statement X is false. Thus, to disbelieve in X logically means to believe in not-X. There are…