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Friday, October 04, 2013

The Transformative Fantasy of Leftism

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In his analysis of the Devil Card, our Unknown Friend (UF) writes that the excesses of the left are always "owing to an intoxication o...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Obama, Messiah of False Slack

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Now, when I say the left is antichristic, this isn't just my opinion, but theirs, since they are defined by their rejection of transcend...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Don't Worry, Obama is Not the Antichrist

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Well, first of all, I have a cold. Thus, no can blog. Yesterday was the worst, but I think I've turned a coroner. Still plagued by lo...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Dreaming Along with God: To Infinity, and Beyond!

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There's a helpful chapter in this book on Hartshorne's theory of order and disorder -- helpful because it speaks to our recent dis...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Does God Suffer?

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It is a commonplace that Christian theology evolved in an intellectual matrix of Greek thought. This is not surprising, since this latter t...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Man's Faith in God's Faith in Man

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Some interesting comments yesterday about divine foreknowledge, free will, the nature of prophecy, etc. In rereading the post, the follow...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

A Creative God of Information vs. A Predictable God of Order

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As promised, I want to try to relate information theory -- as discussed in Gilder's Knowledge and Power -- to theology. It's a l...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The Unboreable Lileks of Bleating

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Reading this book of essays by and about Charles Hartshorne in conjunction with Knowledge and Power has been mutually illuminating. Harts...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Socialism Would Be Easy If Not for F*cking Creativity

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"The very nature of creativity is that it always comes as a surprise to us" ( Gilder ). Right? An antiquated machine that extr...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

On My Careless Linkage of Obama and Manson

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First of all, about that last post -- I must apologize for implicitly linking Charles Manson to President Obama. An inexcusable lapse of ju...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Charles Manson, Liberalism, and Information Theory

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Okay, I get it. Information theory is not your thing. Well, I'm also reading a book about the life and times of Charles Manson . Woul...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

All We are Saying is Give Information a Chance

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Gilder writes that "When law becomes high-entropy, the flow of information halts and knowledge withers." Again, this is becaus...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

On Building a Better Human for Fun and Profit

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It is strange how one seemingly random book resonates with and expands upon the next, but I've long since stopped trying to figure out e...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Cosmo-Economics and the Metaphysics of Surprise

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Same post, just a better title. It's all I had time for today... If the second law of thermodynamics -- i.e., the inevitable drift tow...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Economics and the Noosphere

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, we're inquiring into mankind's great leap forward, after thousands or even millions of year...
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