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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…

The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s <em>The Miracle Myth</em> Reviewed — Part IV

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The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part IV

Read Part I, II, III. MOTIVE That miracles have supernatural origins is true by definition (see below, in PROBABILITY). Miracles, like all events, must have causes, and cause has motive…

Inference To An Explanation: Shapiro’s <em>The Miracle Myth</em> Reviewed — Part III

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Inference To An Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part III

Read Part I, II. Did Jesus walk on water? Eyewitnesses reported he did. The event was so well remarked that people wrote of it at a time when most events…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: To Understand God Is Our Natural End

Previous post. Dear reader, you are an intellectual substance. that to understand God is the end of every intellectual substance 1 Since all creatures, even those devoid of understanding, are…

Class 14: No “UNfair” Dice & 1, 2, 3, Many! – William M. Briggs on The Probability Of A Head In A Coin Flip Is 1, Not 1/2July 22, 2024
[…] impossibly perfect symmetry in the device/die and its workings. Did you watch the coin flip video? (Blog, Substack). Now…
Johnno on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
Interesting things being discussed here. I guess it's time to see where this goes... https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-explains-why-theres-no-evidence-for-the-existence-of-any-viruses/ https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/scientists-challenge-fundamental-precepts-of-virology-do-viruses-even-exist/
John Pate on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 21, 2024
The LLM people need to point out AI “hallucinations” are fully in line with the business of science and are…
hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 20, 2024
All correct. Slavery had to be specially justified and strictly limited because nobody was inherently worthy of slavery. Therefore, all…
TFBW on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 20, 2024
If nothing else, this lecture is giving me pause to reconsider some of my presuppositions. I'm not too satisfied with…