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Uncertainty Discussed At Vox Popoli
Vox Day kindly reprinted the review of Uncertainty by Jayne at the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Vox also has a copy of the book himself and there may…
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Stream: Why Mainline Churches Are Emptying
Stream: Why Mainline Churches Are Emptying. The Episcopal Church in America reached peak membership in 1959, with about 3.5 million baptized members, rising from just over one million in a…
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Alexander Dugin & The Pivot Of History: Part II — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Read Part I. Now we are at the heart of the problem I have detected in trying to discern the real role Dugin (and by implication, Mackinder) plays in relation…
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Stream: When Marriage Can Be Anything, Marriage Can Be Anything
Stream: When Marriage Can Be Anything, Marriage Can Be Anything. It's a good bet you haven't heard of objectum-sexuals before. Though you might have seen "self marriage." It is only…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: The Soul Is Not A Body
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. We're back…
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Gay “Marriages” In Prison: A Dialogue
Teacher: "Why is it that only two people are married at once---couples, that is to say---and not three, four, or more? Why not triples, quadruples and higher?" Student: "Well, history…
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Probability Three Points On A Line & Measurement Paradoxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH4MS6v23U Reader Neil Taylor points us to the video above, which is a jumping point for the larger question (be sure to watch the video first): In [the video] Professor…
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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux
After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…