Category: Philosophical
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On Legislating Morality While the Immoral Prosper
Advertisements When political leaders have argued “You cannot legislate morality,” I wonder if their argument has been based on the fact that morality and bases for moral reasoning very definitely have economic implications, especially regarding profit and prosperity. A moral philosophy toward profit and prosperity based on decisions and cause-effect consequences that take into account…
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Time’s Arrow
Advertisements flies at relentless speed, and its piercing point sometimes seems to accomplish little more than to shatter the plate glass of window after window of opportunity.
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Integer Factorization, Determinism, and Time’s Arrow
Advertisements A positive integer m greater than 1 has a representation as the product of powers of distinct prime numbers that is unique except for the order in the representation of m’s prime factors. One can establish uniqueness by requiring that the prime factors, regardless of their exponents, appear in ascending numerical order. If m…
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Rita Gardner Has Been Saved
Advertisements Okay, get ready for a strange, silly, pop-culture-addict, time-traveler-wannabe adventure. Look at this. I LITERALLY WAS JUST THINKING ALONG THESE WEIRD LINES, AND I GOT TO WATCH IT GET LITERALLY WEIRDER, AS IF ON COMMAND. My command. And that’s scary, and I don’t know what to do about it right now except to blog…
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Some Rituals Take Generations to Perform…
Advertisements … and hypnotize millions of human beings (who consider themselves God-fearing).
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Integer Factorization: This Morning’s Delivery
Advertisements It is a rainy Saturday of Holy Week, 2023, smack-dab between Good Friday and Easter/Resurrection Sunday on the religious calendar which I personally celebrate. It is also a year, give or take a week, since inspiration started coming to me in the early morning hours, usually after our chugs woke me up to have…
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So you say you want deliverance from JUDGEMENT DAY?
Advertisements [copied from my Facebook post] I’ve spent most of my religious life agreeing with theologians that if Judgement Day exists, either for the world or for an individual, such a Day is terrible, something to be dreaded. How many of us see the end goal of faith or practice as some sort of escape,…
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Assorted Incorrect Thoughts
Advertisements “You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we’ve all wanted to show things that we weren’t allowed to show. But it wasn’t because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That’s obviously the only true power. If there’s anything we’ve all learned,…
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The Law
Advertisements He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” – Matthew 13:52 NIV I thought of this as I compiled a table for thorough…