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Friday, February 28, 2014

No Brain, No Problem

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Some fascinating material in this book on How Judaism Became a Religion . Interestingly, it seems that all of the main strands of Judaism...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Immanuel Transmission vs. Automatic Salvation

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In yesterday's post I neglected to include a juicy comment by Moshe Idel, a renowned schola' of the kabbala' (cited in Boyarin )...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Fleshlights & I-AMmissaries

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Boyarin writes that in the first few centuries AD, "Jews and Christians were much more mixed up with each other," but over time c...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

PS I'm Ambivalent About You

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Well, I don't know if there's much more to say about The Jewish Gospels . It seems to be one of those one-idea-and-keep-hammering-i...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Jews for Jesus for Jews

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The Jewish Gospels puts forth the outrageous idea that Jesus and all of his followers were -- wait for it -- Jews! Actually, it's no...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Liberalism is Downstream from a Toxic Spring

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As usual, we want to be completely fair and balanced in our treatment of liberals. Ideally, we don't want to write anything we couldn...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Divine Comedy?

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Instead of posting, I slacked off and watched an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jay Leno. Then I watched the one with Ho...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

On Being MisCaste in the Role of a Lifetime

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Expert? Know it all? I hardly think so. If I had to blog about what I already know, I'd be bored out of my skull. It would be like w...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Free at Last, Thank Matter Almighty I'm Free of Freedom!

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Is there any escape from subjectivity? In a comment on yesterday's post, reader ge claims (in reference to a certain thinker) that ...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Atheism and Other Autoimmune Disorders of Language

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We are on the topic of Cosmic Fundamentals, trying to dig down to the foundation of existence. That we are attempting to do so with words...
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Friday, February 14, 2014

Knowledge and Experience

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Not sure if a post will emerge from this maelstrom of activity, with simultaneous departures of son to school and mother-in-law to airport. ...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

On Distinguishing God's Aseity from a Hole in the Ground

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A riddle: what is without a doubt the biggest gap in all of creation? It's an important question, because evidently even a modest size...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

I Once Was Blind. And Deaf. And Stupid.

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We left off yesterday with a quote from Ratzinger, to the effect that freedom, love, and reason are the genuine cosmic powers and necessary ...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

You Say You Want a Revolution? I Prefer a Line.

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The idea of the gap, as discussed in yesterday's post, has many applications. For example, our essential political differences have to ...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

On the Annoying Gap Between God and Man

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If I am not mistaken -- it's been awhile since Brain Anatomy 101 -- our neurons don't actually touch. Despite the fact that our sku...
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Friday, February 07, 2014

Pictures of God, Man, and Everything

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Very often, like yesterday, I start off writing a post, and it takes me down a completely unintended path. I never have any real idea what...
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