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Atheists Will Have No Excuse
There is a class of the argument of God's existence that depend entirely on your thoughts. The one that interests us is Joseph de Maistre's "no excuse" argument. It is…
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Watching Murder Is Acceptable Again
Impulses suppressed when Christianity reigned are bound to reappear as Christianity wanes. Bloodlust is one of these passions. Romans before Christianity watched as gladiators killed each other, the crowd hoping…
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Choose Predictive Over Parametric Every Time
Gaze and wonder at picture which heads this article, which I lifted from John Haman's nifty R package ciTools. The numbers in the plot are made up whole cloth to…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Happiness Comes In Thinking
Previous post. Intellect trumps will, but willpower is good. Whether felicity consists in a will act 1 Now, since an intellectual substance, through its own operation, attains to God, not…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXV
Item Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could…
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Insanity & Doom Update XXXIV
Special Extra Edition of Insanity & Doom! Have to find a way to empty my mailbox. Item National Council of Math Teachers Annual Meeting Taking a Knee in Mathematics Education:…
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Book Sneak Peek: Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
All, here is a segment, a tease, a mere fragment, of an upcoming book of popular fallacies from the chapter Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy. The Imposing Your Belief Fallacy occurs…
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Don’t ‘Taizé’ Me, Bro!: The Attack On The Liturgy — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Taizéd and dazed. We've gone to sleep. How did this begin to happen? And when was it we got Taizéd? Have you ever seen those little inconspicuous signs outside of…