Summary Against Modern Thought: Intellectual Substances & Subsistent Forms
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View ArticleOn Habits Good & Bad
Our neighbor up on the lake was old and growing infirm, and he had let my dad know that he needed some yard work done. My dad sent me over. There’s nothing remarkable in this story except that I...
View ArticleOn Ethical Socialism — Guest Post by Oswald Spengler
This excerpt is drawn from the 1965 Oxford University Press abridged edition of The Decline of the West, pages 185-187. Let us, once more, review Socialism (independently if the economic movement of...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Differences In Being and What Is In...
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Intellects Are Changeable
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Substance & Being vs. Matter & Form
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View ArticleThe New Religion Of Dataism (Another Version Of Man-As-God)
Dataism is the word coined by Yuval Noah Harari in his essay for an optimistic, practical implementation of Scientism. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human...
View ArticleIs Homosexuality A Disability?
Arf! Guy’s walking along, innocent like, when, lo, he has his “nuts bit off by a Laplander“. Perhaps needless to say, his young wife is distressed over the incident. What goes through the poor man’s...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Souls Survive The Body: Plan Accordingly
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View ArticleMiracles And Knowledge Of Cause
Jesus turned barrels of water into wine, and good wine at that. Not a drop or two, but large pots, and in only a moment. The details might be important. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: How Our Intellects & Brains Interact
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Plato On The Soul
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View ArticleWhy Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer
Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper “When Meat Gets Personal, Animals’ Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing” in Social...
View ArticleStream: Won’t Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As...
This hilarious and revealing image is the official Tradinista logo. Today’s post is at the Stream Won’t Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas? My article is part of a...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: The Man Has But One Soul
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View ArticleMusk’s Matrix Is Malodorous
“Elon Musk has said that there is only a ‘one in billions’ chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.” Since all probability is conditional on the assumed premises, the natural question is...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellect Is Not A Separate Substance
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View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Our Nature And Possible Intellect
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View ArticleDo I Exist? (Does Russia?) Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Do I exist? Great question. And does that rock over there really exist? Another great question. For idiots. Yet those are the two questions that have tortured all of the great idiots of the last 500...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Aristotle vs Averroes On The Intellect & Soul
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