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Saturday, December 09, 2023

Preluminary Considerations

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The history of philosophy is the language that lets you talk about what is interesting.  And if we're lucky, to avoid having to talk and...
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Friday, December 08, 2023

A Brief History of Thought: Philosophical Starters and Non-Starters

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It would be nice if higher education could redound to a greater number of intelligent persons, rather than merely revealing the existing one...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

The Long March of Astounding Stupidity Through the Institutions

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Postcolonialism  is suddenly in the news, as it is one of the most prominent contemporary pretexts for neo-medieval Jew hatred. This poisono...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Vertical Closure and Craniorectal Occlusion

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How do progressive pundits, journalists, and People of Tenure avoid contact with reality? By maintaining and enforcing a closed ideological ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

The Karen-Mohammed Industrial Complex

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How does a lunatic belief system "take"? As crazy and depraved as the left is, the craziness and depravity must exploit something ...
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Monday, December 04, 2023

Of Brutalitarians and Bunkum Busters

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We've suggested that the Incarnation is God's own reality tunnel -- a vertical tunnel from divine to human nature, and back -- but r...
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Saturday, December 02, 2023

The Pervertical Axis of Metanoia and Paranoia

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I started a post that I intended to finish tomorrow, but one thing led to another, and this introduction is long enough to qualify as a post...
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Friday, December 01, 2023

A Bridge to Everyone

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We've been improvising on the theme of reality tunnels , which is to say, those neurocognitive psylos we conflate with "reality....
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Thursday, November 30, 2023

God's Reality Tunnel To and From Himself

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Continuing with the theme of God's own reality tunnel, Andrew Klavan writes of Jesus that his story is the story of the meaning of life....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

God's Own Reality Tunnel

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Reality is one, but reality tunnels are... I was going to say infinite, but most people don't even bother to build an interesting one, r...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

How to Be Stupid Forever

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Our friends are fallen and know they are fallen, while our adversaries are fallen but unaware (or in denial) of the fact.  As for the apes, ...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

How To Tell Your Friends From the Apes

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The title of the post is from a lecture once given by  Robert Anton Wilson , which I first heard on the radio in the middle of the night som...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Open Cosmos

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What is in the Devil's Toolbox? I would say his favorite tools must be those that are self-sustaining and allow him to take the rest of ...
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

It's the Religion, Stupid: Metastatic Leftism and the Devil's Toolbox

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Let's learn something. How did it happen? The left's colonization of western civilization? Roger Kimball  captures the tactic well i...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Athens and Jerusalem vs. Mecca and Manhattan

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In place of Manhattan we could have used the less alliterate  Ockham (William of , and his anti-realist nominalism),  Königsberg (Kant), ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Our Escape is God's Inscape, Part One

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So, man lives in the gap between appearances and reality. Unless one is a relativist, subjectivist, idealist, etc., in which case one preten...
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