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Summary Against Modern Thought: God Acts Through His Wisdom

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Another small…

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Atheists More Religiously Tolerant Than Christians: It’s Science!

I meant this to go out on Saturday morning, but I pressed the wrong button and it went out late Friday afternoon. Apologies to those who receive this post twice.…

Culture

The Future Of Freely Using Your Own Money, a.k.a. Capitalism

This is only a quick introduction to a vast subject; mere musings. I'll have a review of George Gilder's timely new book, The Scandal of Money, next week, where I'll…

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Masters Predictions & (Some) Statistics — Podcast Bonus

PODCAST BONUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsyJf2MX2w See last Master's year's predictions here. Since not much has changed, I'm doing a lot of copying and pasting. The Podcast bonus is because of the screwed…

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WMBriggs.com Podcast 6 April 2016 — It’s The End Of The World: Again

https://youtu.be/CNsyJf2MX2w Download MP3. Subscribe to the podcast feed (paste this into iTunes or elsewhere): https://www.wmbriggs.com/feed/?category=podcasts Use Player.fm to find the podcasts. Show is over. Archived version above. Next week,…

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Stream: Should Women Be Allowed In Combat? A Debate

Today's post is at the Stream: Should Women Be Allowed In Combat? Equality Debates Reality. On 3 December 2015, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter decided unilaterally to open combat positions…

Culture

Attorneys General Embrace Lysenkosim With Gusto: Why Now?

What took 'em so long? Put it another way. Given the manifest benefits of defining scientific "truth" by State fiat, why did government take so long in making Lysenkoism official…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God’s Acts Aren’t Necessary

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Series was…

doclove on I Finally Read James Lindsay’s Manifesto (Yes, He Has A Manifesto)December 10, 2025
Does James Lindsay have something against traditionalism in general, religion in general and particularly the Christian religion? I do not…
Cary D Cotterman on I Finally Read James Lindsay’s Manifesto (Yes, He Has A Manifesto)December 9, 2025
Lindsay seems to have a grudge against common sense and those who have it.
John Pate on The Biggest Mistake In Science Applied To Universe As SimulationDecember 8, 2025
…another way of putting it, more succinctly: consciousness does not have the halting problem.
John Pate on The Biggest Mistake In Science Applied To Universe As SimulationDecember 8, 2025
The most straightforward indicator that computers don't have minds is that computers don't exist in the eternal now. They have…
gareth on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 8, 2025
Well, having made it all the way through, my takeaways were: 1. The answer to the question, "what is the…