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Summary Against Modern Thought: Become More Godlike
Previous post. Review! We skipped a week because of Easter, and memories are short. That things naturally tend to become like God inasmuch as He is a cause 1 As…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXVIII
Item City Council wants new schools chancellor to 'take bold action' City lawmakers are demanding that incoming schools chief Richard Carranza bring his focus on ethnic and LGBTQ studies with…
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Readers’ Help With Definitions Needed
Dear Readers, Could you help me by discovering, if possible, official progressive (Cathedral) definitions of these (and similar) words? homophobia homophobe transphobia transphobe Islamaphobia Islamaphobe anti-semitism anti-semite alt-right white supremacist…
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The Gremlins Of MCMC: Or, Computer Simulations Are Not What You Think
I don't think we're clear on what simulation is NOT. RANDOMNESS IS NOT NECESSARY, for the simple reason randomness is merely a state of knowledge. Hence this classic post from…
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Quantum Potency & Probability
A note on a complex subject. Ed Feser points us to the paper "An Aristotelian Approach to Quantum Mechanics" by Gil Sanders, and in turn Sanders points us to "Taking…
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Not All Conspiracies Are Theories
I don't often do this, but just watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=uQMJximufV0 Why, it's almost as if the news is coordinated---and a danger to our democracy. I admire most the look of utter…
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Oh, Hell
Hell either exists or it does not, a tautological statement, and therefore necessarily true. If it does not, then you have nothing to worry about, nothing to be sorry for,…
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Shocking Eyewitness Account Of An Actual Miracle
Here is what happened, according to an eyewitness and participant to the events described (he humbly called himself "the other disciple"). Evidence doesn't get any better than this. On the…
