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Monthly Archives: September 2014
The Limits of Cause and Effect
This is easily the single biggest issue, a mental reflex that requires long conscious reflection to overcome. We are taught from birth to seek a cause-and-effect relationship in all things. Only if we get a really good education can we … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged cause and effect, cause-and-effect relationship, history, intellect, Israel, moral fabric, mysticism, peace, scripture, spirituality, The Curse
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Some Vision
I participate in something that started long before. The dream of returning to a simpler faith without all the added folderol and misguided restrictions has been around since shortly after the last apostle died, around AD 100. The only complication … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged communications, computers, internet, mysticism, religion, spirituality
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Psalm 16
In the Hebrew mind, the highest good was shalom. More than simple absence of distress or conflict, it was much broader. Perhaps a better term would be “social stability” — a combination of salient factors working together to provide a … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged divine justice, hebrew poetry, King David, mysticism, Psalms, symbolic logic
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Song of Solomon 6
The bride continues conferring with her support network. The maidens ask if the bride knows where her man went. The question refers more to the kind of place, rather than some specific location. The bride answers that he is downright … Continue reading
Religious Debate for Juveniles
I’ve been asked to put this in terms a bright juvenile can follow. Apparently there is at least one who sees some of my blog posts. I’ve done a lot of teaching to that age group (teaching in both public … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged antiquities, common ground, education, history, philosophy, politics, propaganda, religion
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Logic: Category Error
Someone offline asked for my explanation of Category Error. I’ve touched on this before. On this one I’m not happy with the way Wikipedia handles the topic, so I won’t refer to it. Perhaps my answer here will meet with … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged Category Error, epistemology, Hebrew Scripture, history, intellect, intellectual traditions, mortality, mysticism, philosophy
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Program Notes: Aristotelian Thought
If you are born in any English-speaking country, you have a Western bias; you are part of Western Civilization. To be Western in any degree includes being Aristotelian. Indeed, it’s true to varying degrees in almost all of Europe and … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged civilization, culture, epistemology, history, mysticism, philosophy, religion, scripture, western bias, western civilization
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Context: Divorce
The hardest thing I do in dealing with Christians is helping them break some very bad mental habits. If you absorb the assumption of a unitary universe, you will struggle with most of what I write. You will be mixing … Continue reading