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You Are Who You Think You Are: Hart’s The Experience of God, Part III

Read Part I, Part II. Stand by for news! You're not going to believe this, but I swear it's true. It's one of those things that's so psychedelically stratospherically hyper-dimensionally…

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What Are The Chances Of That?

Go ahead and ask me. I'll even pretend to laugh. Just as I chuckle warmly with you when you quote Mark Twain (or Disraeli) abut damned lies. (Secretly, I'll be…

Culture Philosophy

Bake Your Own Damn Cake

A new joke. Setup: What do you call it when two guys head to City Hall and undergo a ceremony meant to tie their finances together until one of them…

Book review Culture Philosophy

You Can’t Get Something From Nothing: The Experience of God, Part II

Read Part I You can't get there from here It's difficult, thus far impossible, to get Enlightened persons to understand nothing. Lord knows it's been tried. Some physicists---Larry Krauss, Vic…

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Why You Should Care About The Philosophy Of Probability & Statistics

"Why, Dr Briggs," asks the earnest Student, "Why must we study all this gobbledegook about philosophy when it's more important to learn all the neat methods of handling data? Why…

Book review Philosophy

Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part I

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart. A good joke A joke which many atheists think clever goes like this: (speaking to a theist) "You reject…

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The Mysticism Of Randomness: Philosophy of Probability & Statistics Video Series

Nothing can be caused by "chance". Chance, like randomness, isn't a thing, it isn't real, it isn't physical, therefore it cannot cause anything. Randomness means "unknown." Therefore "random variables" are…

Culture Philosophy

The “Right” To This, That, And The Other Thing

A good friend of mine, an inveterate lefty who tortures himself by reading Think Progress and other horror sites designed to confirm the worst fears of their readers, posted this…

JH on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 23, 2025
How would people react to heavyweight white woman statues? White fatigues? I have a wooden rotund Buddha figurine on my…
JH on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 23, 2025
I don’t see the connections between DEI and the BEAUTIFUL statue. The artist has achieved more than what he intended…
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hudbwu on A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: FoodMay 21, 2025
Personally, I'll still stick to my theory that the birth rates have fallen because people have been mentally damaged by…
Cloudbuster on Blacks Have Black Fatigue: Who Is At Fault?May 21, 2025
" The natural solution would be a formal separation: you go your way, we go ours. That, of course, would…