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Ultimate love
Let’s have a quick thought experiment. Think about love. What makes it profound? What makes it worthwhile? What makes one love more significant, or, dare I say, real, than other kinds of love? People often say, “You can’t love a … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Writing
Tagged agape, eros, Love, phileo, philosophy, philosophy of love, suffering, thought experiment
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Frederick William Robertson and My Favorite Quote
It is an awful moment when the soul begins to find that the props upon which it has blindly rested are, many of them, rotten, and begins to suspect them all; when it begins to feel the nothingness of many … Continue reading
Thoughts on Faith and Induction
If the problem of induction tells us that we are not justified in establishing law-like relations in science, then upon what do we base our certainty that the sun will “rise” tomorrow, or that magnetic poles of opposite charge will … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Religion, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged David Hume, faith, God, induction, philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, problem of induction, reason, religion, science, theist
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Convincing? I don’t think so! (There’s irony afoot…)
Music playing at the moment: Moonface (w/Siinai)- “Quickfire, I Tried” – Heartbreaking Bravery – Jagjaguwar (2012). http://moonface.ca/ (Skip ahead to the squiggles to get right to the purpose of the post if you don’t give a shit about all this…) … Continue reading
Posted in Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Questions
Tagged convincing, convincing people, forgiveness, forgiving, guilt, Heartbreaking Bravery, irony, Moonface, redemption, Spencer Krug
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Wine and regret
Love – It is very much like a bottle of wine, my friend. When the bottle is full, it is filled with passion and excitement because it still possesses its essence. You drink of it, and drink of it still, … Continue reading
Posted in Love, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Writing
Tagged drink, drinking, friends, Love, regret, wine
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A conversation between my professor and I…
Fellow Philosophers, So as I adjust to a very diminished work load, and actually have some time to tend to various obligations that have been put off for some months, I have recently begun my study of “life’s meaning” in … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Life, Philosophy, Questions, Religion
Tagged E.D. Klemke, Existence, Existentialism, Life, Meaninglessness, philosophy, religion, Richard Taylor, Sisyphus, The Meaning of Life
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Ode to friends
I have been listening to this song for a couple of weeks and felt especially selfish keeping it all to myself. Here are the lyrics… I’ve seen the end All I have loved had broke and won’t mend. Call in … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Music, Musings and Prose, Personal Life, Uncategorized
Tagged friends, Horse Feathers, Last Waltz, music
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Burglars, or ghosts?
The sun was out and a tremendous crowd waded belly-high in the shallow waters near the aft port side of the massive vessel. It must have been well over 100 feet high at the railing that I dangled from. Swinging … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Paranormal, Personal Life, Psychology, Questions, Religion
Tagged Burglar, dreams, ghost, paranormal, scary, skepticism, sleep
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