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Friday, December 11, 2015

Are You Using Only Five Percent of God's Revelation?

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You know the old crack about how we only use five or ten or whatever percent of our brain potential? There is of course no way to know the ...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Tossing Thoughtcrimes through the Overton Window

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Mouravieff goes on to say that we inhabit a Mixtus Orbis , which seems to be a fancy way of saying that ours is an ambiguous world ruled by...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

The Truth Will Set You Free from Your Perverse Understanding of Freedom

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Now that we're on the subject, this question of transformation functions keeps popping up everywhere. For example, I'm reading a ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Obama the Miracle Worker

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Continuing with yesterday's theme, we were discussing lies that aren't so much superimposed on reality, but rather, are analogous to...
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Monday, December 07, 2015

An Implicate War in Heaven?

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"We live in a world ruled by lies," in which "lying and stealing are the dominant elements of human character..." ( Mou...
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Friday, December 04, 2015

Coming to a Theater Near You, Your Life

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In a comment, reader Magister suggests that life is analogous to a film, but to what is a film analogous? Hey, I should know this because...
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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Freedom: Divine, Human, and Anti-human

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For Hartshorne, God is still omniscient, in that he knows infallibly all that can be known. It's just that he can't know what can...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Hovering in Love Around the Above

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In response to yesterday's post, reader Magister suggests that life is analogous to a film, and that "whether the film is already s...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Cosmic Freedom and Divine Presence

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Not much time this morning... Continuing with our theme of divine omniscience, it seems to me that God can either be omniscient (in the trad...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

If I Were Omniscient, I'd Give it Up for a Moment of Creativity

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I'm not sure how anyone, even God, could know the future in every detail. If the future were determined, why would grace need to exist ...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

The Axis of Evol... ution

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In response to my suggestion that "collective development is analogous to individual development, in that -- obviously -- the further b...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Time and History, Development and Regression

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From time to time we get the traditionalist commenter who suggests that the world of the past was far superior to the world of the present. ...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

From I Have a Dream to A Dream Has Me!

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We left off with an interesting observation by Hartshorne and a cryptic one by me. Hartshorne pointed out how billions and probably trillio...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Matter is the Ultimate Abstraction, Mind the Ultimate Concretion

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Back to Ultimate Reality and how it gets that way. First, I think we can stipulate that it is either changeless or changing. For Plato, ch...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Constitutional Law is What You Can Get Away With

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In response to people who aren't so sure it's a good idea to import thousands of Muslims into the country at this particular time, P...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Ultimate Reality: I Think it Moved

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It happens. Flat out of inspiration at the moment. It always comes back eventually, but one doesn't want to have a sense of entitlemen...
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