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Friday, December 16, 2016

What it Takes to Be a Man

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Let's leave my own tangential asides to the side, and try to make some progress with God's Gamble . On page 56 Bailie makes a poin...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Free to Be Three

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From instinct to... to what? That is to say, other animals don't have to worry about anything, because instinct takes care of every ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Cheap and Primitive Edge of Experience

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This post may be more rambly than usual, because we are attempting to explore the far edge of the psyche in real timelessness, where things ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Primitive Minds and Minds of Primitives

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I'm always receiving notices in the mail for continuing education courses and seminars. Yesterday's flier from a psychoanalytic ins...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

Toward a Total Explanation of Everything

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This next chapter in God's Gamble is called Toward a Theological Anthropology . I find that you have to beware of papers and chapters ...
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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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