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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Philosophy in Good Times

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Just a brief one. The true philosophy must apply equally to good and bad, happy and tragic, times -- in both joy and suffering, exaltation a...
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Friday, October 20, 2023

Do Unto Others, Good and Hard

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Reading this book on  Russian writers , I'm sure seeing a lot of parallels between Soviet and Islamist ethics. I'm starting to suspe...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Preventing Future Crimes Against the Regime

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Soon enough we'll get back to the usual content, but I first have to get through this book --  Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Write...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

The Magical Appeal of Violent Ideologies

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Morson distinguishes between "revolution" and  revolutionism,  the latter going to the addictive mental state discussed in yesterd...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Lifestyles of the Wretched & Depraved

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Continuing with yesterday's post, it seems that it's not just the content of the terrorist mind that is different, but the container...
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Monday, October 16, 2023

Terrorist Time and Time for Terror

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I'm reading a book called  Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter , by Gary ...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023

On the Deep Structure of the Progressive-Terror Industrial Complex

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There is no shortage of opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but they mostly touch on the symptoms and not the cause -- the surface ...
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Friday, October 13, 2023

Annotations To An Implicit Text About Western Intellectuals and Islamist Barbarism

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Just combing through the Aphorisms for oblique references to the barbarism and depravity of the day. Those with ears, yada yada. Religious p...
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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Mere Ignorance and Learned Ignorance

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Feel free to stop bloviating on the ins & outs of unchecked aggression and the what-have-yous of geopolitics, and stick to what you know...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Justice for Palestine?

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Not much in the way of inspiration in recent days, even predating recent world-historical intrusions. Yesterday I pulled out a volume of Jew...
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Monday, October 09, 2023

Breaking News and the Breakthrough of Eternity

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Well, I wasted yesterday watching sports and news out of Israel. I could write about the latter, but one of the original purposes of the blo...
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Sunday, October 08, 2023

Theology for God

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In the previous post, we wondered what Christianity says about reality -- both what it explicitly asserts and what it implicitly presumes.  ...
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Friday, October 06, 2023

If Christ is the Answer, What is the Question?

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What does Christianity say about reality: what does it presume , and what does it add that we couldn't have just as well figured out on...
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Thursday, October 05, 2023

What Is It All About?

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There's no reason to follow a religion unless one not only believes it is true, but conveys the ultimate truth(s). But in what manner do...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Religiology and Ultimate Reality

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At the end of yesterday's post the following sentence popped unthinkingly from my fingertips, and now we have to figure out of it's ...
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