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Friday, December 09, 2016

In the Beginning was the Word... or the Deed. Your Call.

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What a piece of work is a man! How so? Well, for starters, "Making gods by killing victims is the human gesture par excellence......
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Thursday, December 08, 2016

What Does Desire Desire?

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What exactly happened when man became man? How do we mark the transition? Among other things, we now had an assoul released from instinc...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Does Leftism Feed on the Blood of Innocents?

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Almost no time this morning to make any vertical progress. Therefore you get this half-baked and unfinished post: Have you ever read James...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

The Emergence of Man: Who is to Blame?

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This next chapter, The Emergence of Homo Sapiens , gets into one of our favorite subjects: exactly how and when did man become man? We hav...
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Monday, December 05, 2016

Freedom From and Freedom For

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We are about to embark on a very close reading of God's Gamble -- no more than a chapter at a time, and possibly even less. I don'...
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Saturday, December 03, 2016

Scientific Faith and Religious Hypothesis

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Can one posit a "religious hypothesis?" Normally we think of science as promulgating hypotheses and religion relying upon faith o...
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Friday, December 02, 2016

Fission for Love in All the Wrong Places

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Goodnews badnews: The emergence of the individual "can be traced to the Enlightenment and its rejection of traditional authorities and...
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

Pascal Bets on God, God Bets on Man

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I apologize in advance for the rambliness of this post. It can't be avoided. Besides, I'm only trying to BE MYSELF, so stop judgin...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Wild Cosmic Divorce Court

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We've been exploring a seeming covariance between politics and human development, with a particular focus on how this plays out in relat...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Individuals without Individuality

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Where were we? I've lost the thread, nor am I sure the thread, whatever it was, is worth pursuing. It had something to do with... or was...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

The Bad News: You're Out of Touch with Reality. The Good News: Reality Doesn't Exist

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When last we spoke, we were discussing Paul Hollander's Extravagant Expectations: New Ways To Find Romantic Love In America , which is a...
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Friday, November 18, 2016

Strange Bedfellows: Romance & Politics

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I recently finished a book called Extravagant Expectations: New Ways to Find Romantic Love in America , after reading of it in another book ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Freakout on the Right!

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NewsBusters has put together a video compilation of MSM freakouts, and truly, you'd have to be utterly soulless to not laugh out loud. ...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Liberal Defenses Against Reality

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It is a truism in clinical psychology -- at least the kind in which I was trained -- that a crisis is an opportunity. That is, it is as if ...
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