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The Way We Are
The Way Things Are is a free online magazine designed for people
who like to ask the big questions in life. It is a format that attempts
to bring together science, religion and philosophy so they can compare
notes. There are many forces attempting to assign us a worldview and The Way Things Are puts those things into print in an easily digestible, fun, and engaging way
Regular people can talk about philosophy too. This is the year 2008. We walk around with iPods and spend our time Digging articles about YouTube. And yes, we can still talk about philosophy. That's what it's all about, isn't it? Do we really need to discuss form and matter in togas to be curious about the world we live in and the people we live with? Sure modern philosophy has taken root in things like politics, religion and American Idol, but the fact is there are still a lot of us who wear blue jeans and t-shirts that simply want to ask the big questions in life and not get an answer from the Pope, a news corporation or some politician.
The thing is, we all have a background in this. We were raised with some sort of religion, set of political values, and moral codes. We all have, at one point, entertained the idea that we don't know everything and some of us have even used Wikipedia to find why people are the way they are. Where did we come from? How big is the universe? Were we created or did we just "show" up? Why can't we get that promotion when that crackpot in accounting got that raise? Why does grease make pizza taste good? These questions must be answered.
Religions often have answers to the above questions. They may even have an opinion on pizza. Philosophers, ancient and modern, also talk a lot about this. They may use catchy theories like "String Cheese" ... or is it String Theory... and political pundits point at pie charts that describe why the red states are different than the blue ones. Science has a lot to say about reality too. They are probably on the cutting edge of figuring it out until something shows up that completely disproves what they thought a few minutes ago.
The fact is religion, philosophy and science all have ideas on why things are the way they are. Maybe they should all get together and compare notes. That's where this nifty website comes in.
The Way Things Are is a free online magazine and news site that spends its time scouring the opinions of Philosophy, Science and Religion looking for some truth that in some way applies to us normal people. The more we learn about each other through our pre-determined points of view, the more we can figure this whole thing out. Maybe if people read this magazine and hit this site often enough we will find world peas. I mean ... peace.
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