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Friday, February 09, 2018

Drowning in Acid and Calling it Truth

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In a recent video, Jordan Peterson uses the analogy of an iceberg to illustrate how people can appear to be standing on two different surfac...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Nothing Can't Explain Anything, Let Alone Everything

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What ceases to be thought qualitatively so as to be thought quantitatively ceases to be thought significantly . --Dávila Continuing with ou...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Science, Magic, Metaphysics

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The question before the bus is whether we need math, or logic, or some special science in order to understand the totality of existence, or ...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

How is Possibility Possible?

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This note to myself last Friday seemed urgent at the time, but I haven't thought about it since, and now we have to figure out why it wa...
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Thursday, February 01, 2018

What You See is What You Grok. Or Hallucinate.

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A note to myself in the margin says "What you see is what you grok." I've never actually read Stranger in a Strange Land , so ...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Cosmic Eclipse

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Here is how a man loses the cosmos, and then proceeds to become lost in it. Pay close attention: First, reduce the world "from act to...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

In the Beginning...

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A brief review before we dive further into No God, No Science . One of the most fundamental distinctions in traditional philosophy -- by ...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

It's Only "Natural"

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Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants ...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Attention Deviance Disorder

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This is something I've long believed, mainly because it's impossible not to believe it, at least if you're paying close attentio...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Unhinged Abstractions and Animals with Opinions

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In a sense, everything is an abstraction from God. Put conversely, God is concrete absoluteness. I say this because people tend to look at...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

Understanding Understanding

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Not much time. Just a short blast... How do we understand the ultimate nature of the cosmos? Via astrophysics? Astronomy? No, scientific ...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

The Case of the Missing Cosmos

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Whole and part: one cannot refer (explicitly) to any object within the cosmos without alluding (implicitly) to the cosmos without it. Thi...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Your Trial, Your Ego's Funeral

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Continuing with yesterday's theme, it is simply The Case that no philosophy can determine the mind's limits without implicitly surpa...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

True Ape and False God

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The following will be a free-associational post on No God, No Science . Perhaps an order will emerge from my spontaneous bobbling. But there...
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Truth to Power, Resistance to Shitheels

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I read something in the biography of John Paul that reminds me of our current cultural crisis, and which indeed must be universal. However...
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Thursday, January 11, 2018

No God, No Science

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No God, No Science: Theology, Cosmology, Biology . Used to be that some things were just so obvious that it required a Ph.D. to not see the...
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