Archives – August, 2008
A consideration of the choices facing a thinking person today with regard to belief in God and loyalty to one of the religions. A thinking person will decide not only for a belief in God but membership in some Christian church (or its moral and optimistic equivalent).
Continue August 31, 2008
Conceiving of three spirits which are possible for humans, membership in three realms.
Continue August 30, 2008
Musing about Gotama’s conception of existence as suffering, and extinction as a way out for rational people.
Continue August 30, 2008
Catching myself in a prayer in a way that St.Paul would have done himself, and coming to insights about “justification by faith”.
Continue August 29, 2008
A reasoned dedication to the Christian faith. Sketch of a possible essay.
Continue August 28, 2008
Musing on the liberation of the Gentile Christian and the rule of chastity in the development of Christian character.
Continue August 18, 2008
Schopenhauer seems correct in asserting that the notion of endurance arises through the application of the notion of causation and not, as Kant argues, that the former must precede the latter. We are looking here at the most fundamental of all recognitions, namely we see through our eye, that the visual finger is not a thing on its own, but exists only in the eye.
Continue August 17, 2008
Imagining how Jesus might have been an ordinary man and raised by Mary, and how such a conception would be pleasing to Kant
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Musing on how Jesus might have been raised by Mary, and then the implications of this for the Christians with regard to chastity.
Continue August 15, 2008
Ruminating on some difficult portions of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, the Analogies of Experience and how they are justified.
Continue August 11, 2008
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