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Friday, December 13, 2013

The Will to Deny Free Will and the Intelligence to Deny Intellect

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Among yesterday's comments is one from a predestineer, a position I admittedly find metaphysically absurd and logically impossible. T...
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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Support Your Volunteer Spiritual Fire Department

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Global warming. This has been the coldest December in memory. At night I have to put blankets around some of the plants to spare them deat...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Gifts for the Music Fan for Whom Everything isn't Enough

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It was my turn to take the boy to school this morning, so no time for the usual championing of the bobvious. Instead, part 2 of our favorit...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Politician, Heal Thyself

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Better yet, f*ck thyself. Since freedom is "nothing," perhaps that's why liberals are so bored by it. Classical liberals, o...
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Monday, December 09, 2013

Freedom in the Kingdom of Necessity

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"Freedom," writes Berdyaev, "is not a right, but an obligation." He's wrong about that, because it is a right and ...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

On Lighting a Match to Illuminate the Sun

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All knowledge is conformity to an object. What is the object to which philosophy conforms? For Berdyaev, it "must commune with the pr...
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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Signs, Nuggetz, and Hipsters

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Gosh! Probably no time for a real post, but perhaps enough time to list my favorite music releases of 2013, which would in turn make great ...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

I Loves Me Some Wisdom!

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Back in Olden Times, philosophy wasn't the province of the tenured, but rather, of a special group of pneumanauts with the bright stuff,...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Multiculturalism would be Unanimous if it Weren't for Your Damn Tribe of Individuals!

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So, we've covered Berdyaev's thoughts on the Eternal Being and its image and likeness down herebelow. But herebelow the image can n...
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Monday, December 02, 2013

Frankenchrist and Mankind v2.0

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It has no doubt occurred to you that every monster you've ever seen in a movie is just man , or a symbol thereof. Frankenstein, Dracula...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Progress would be So Easy if it weren't for F*cking History!

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If progressives are on the right side of history, why then must they always lie, cheat, and steal in order to get there? This has been goin...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Mankind: Last Word in Creation or Lost World of Miscreants?

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I suppose it's no coincidence that Genesis depicts man as God's last creation: the consummation, the crowning touch, the final act, ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Man is a Clearing through which Freedom Passes on the Way to its Source

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The remodel marches on, now into the Food Preparation Area. But in their boyish zeal to demolish our vintage 1964 WifeSaver kitchen, the w...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

Our Creativity is God's Freedom

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Internet traffic being what it is during the holidays, posts may or may not appear the rest of the week. I'm thinking they probably wil...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

See What Happens, Barry? This is What Happens When You F*** a Hundred Million Strangers in the Pocketbook!

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WALTER: Is this your handiwork, Barry? Barry does not respo...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

An Inspiring Post About Nothing

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In yesterday's post we discussed What We Can Know. But there is no knowledge in the absence of a knower. Just as the world has its app...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Nevertheless, God is a Jazzman

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Christian Existentialism unscrambles excerpts from Berdyaev's thirty odd books and helpfully reassembles them under various headings, s...
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