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Friday, March 27, 2020

Et Cetera

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Must every post be an epic? Why not more frequent posts with fewer ideas, or maybe even one idea per post? Who has the patience to slog th...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020

The Endless Dialogue of Mind and World

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Change my mind: If science is just a common sense approach to the material world, meta-science (AKA metaphysics) is just a commonsense appr...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Nihilism Is Better than Nothing

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Does the cosmos have a center? Well, either it does or it doesn't. I suppose on a strictly scientistic basis the question itself is abs...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

The Cosmos is a Love Shack & There's a Party in My Head

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Looking for the latest on the Chinese Flu? You've come to the right place. You obviously need something else to think about. For exampl...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Endless Revelation

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The bottom line of the previous post was that "every scientific act is, ipso facto, an affirmation of God's existence" ( Barro...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Now Batting, Number Two, Jesus Christ

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Continuing with Bishop Barron's mind-expanding take on The Epistemic Priority of Christ , note that the claim in the title has to do wit...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

If Jesus Didn't Exist, We'd Have to Invent Him

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Truth is a person. --Dávila In an otherwise somewhat undistinguished compilation called All Things Hold Together in Christ there is an ou...
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Peptic Justice and Other Alimentary Principles

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The effect of liberal rhetoric on taste is called nausea. --Dávila Continuing with our theme of rightly ordered disgust, it seems that we ...
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Friday, March 13, 2020

If You Share My Disgust, You Earn My Trust

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"Disgust" is related to such words as gustatory and gustable, or in other words, the digestive system, specifically, the sense of...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Can the Abolition of Man be Arrested?

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Well, I just finished this big ol' book of C.S. Lewis , consisting of seven works of apologetics. The last one is The Abolition of Man ,...
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Friday, March 06, 2020

Why and Because

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Another mundane post that flapped and flapped its wings but never got off the ground... We all want to know Why? It seems that this questi...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2020

The Spirit is Unwilling and the Post is Weak

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Just some notes to myself that may or may not turn into a post. I only show up at the keyboard. If the inspiration decides not to show up,...
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Sunday, March 01, 2020

Heads I'm Right, Tails You're Wrong

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Back in the early years of the blog, we had a commenter who had convinced his sorryself that free will didn't exist, and endeavored to c...
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Thursday, February 27, 2020

One Small Step for the Son of Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind

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Why do we have these two words: appearance and reality ? If your philosophy begins with the idea that we cannot know reality, then the rea...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Mono-realism vs. Oops²

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Miracles. What are they? It depends. For flatlanders, a miracle, even if it occurs, cannot occur, therefore it didn't. I don't disc...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

We All Live in a Leaky Submarine

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Last night I finally got around to watching Das Boot , the 1981 World War II film about life in a German U-boat. This post isn't about t...
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Friday, February 21, 2020

Reality ↔ Word ↔ Dialogue

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Yesterday I was bedazzled by an essay in Pieper's The Weight of Belief , called The Abuse of Language and the Abuse of Power . (It looks...
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