Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, and host of @RealAtheology. Ardent realist about everything except Theism and The Self. In my view, God and "I" are the problem.
Norfolk VA
Joined May 2021
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In case you missed it, here is the recent debate I had on creation vs. evolution. I'll be releasing it soon as an episode of @RealAtheology too.
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Best Use of Stream of Consciousness in Fiction Over the Past Fifty Years:
1. SUTTREE, McCarthy
2. TREE OF SMOKE, Denis Johnson
3. SEVERANCE, Robert Olen Butler
4. WOLF HALL, Mantel
5. BELOVED, Toni Morrison
6. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE, James Kelman
7. MILKMAN, Anna Burns
Recommendations for best use of stream of consciousness writing in the last 50ish years. Any suggestions? @bradkelly @AmericanGwyn
Great thread, yet I take issue with saying Hume makes no historical claim. In Part I of Of Miracles, he sets the standard for rational miracle belief. In Part II, he looks at the record of human history and finds that no testimony has ever met it.
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โAre you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?โ
โSocrates, The Apology
I remember thinking as a young kid that this Clayface scene was something special.
Forty-one years on this earth today, and I am marveling at the strange, bright shelter of the life we have conjured together.
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! xitter.cf/i/spaces/1jGXgBVAvbLKZ
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What are you doing in this situation?
All but the worst of us agree that torturing children for fun wrongs them. Yet to wrong someone is to break a duty owed to them, and a duty owed to a person just is their right. So rights are not make-believe. They are the logical consequence of common-sense moral judgment.
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One of the top ten philosophy memes that still make me chuckle every time I see it.
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If most Christians believe chiefly because they were indoctrinated, and that pattern is more expected on a naturalistic account of religion than on Christianity, then it counts as some evidence against Christianity.