Category: Philosophical
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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…
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CONVINCED
Advertisements What does it take to win someone over to a point of view? Observation can do it, certainly. Our ability to look at behaviors and come up with ways to describe or characterize them is a useful and common talent. It accompanies sound mental processes in harmony with reliable senses. Reason and science take…
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The Evil(s) of Religion
Advertisements A friend of mine, who was a professor and director of plays in which I participated at the college I attended in the 1970s, posted on Facebook a black-and-white photograph of a happy woman in attractive attire cutting a birthday cake slice for herself. This woman lived, just a couple of years before the…