Leibniz and the Monad
An attempt to express Kant’s take on Leibniz’s monad with respect to time and space. Not edited.
Continue Reading Add comment March 7th, 2010
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Reflection on the spat and the recovery
Reflections on the spat of the previous post, looking for some moral lesson to guide our marriage in the future. Not edited
Continue Reading Add comment December 13th, 2009
Intervention of the Holy Spirit? a family spat made good
Ruminations on a domestic spat, how it arose and how it ended and what was the result. A suggestion that man need not have fallen into sin, but did and were conditioned by that and as a result of that harbor resentments which build into explosions and which can result it a greater good, but which in a perfect world of candor would never have arisen in the first place.
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Concerning the Affinity and the Identity of Self
Trying to find clarity in the relation of the consciousness of the identity of self with the assumption of the affinity of all specters.
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Self, Manifold and the Affinity of the Specters/
Semi-focused thinking on the affinity of all specters and how this affinity can only be a manifold in our consciousness in a certain way, and so how the nature which all specters represent can be recognized empirically must accord with the unity of apperception.
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Reflections on the A Version of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories
Seeking clarity in the use of Kant’s terms. Special emphasis on the subjective and the objective perception.
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Musing on Liberty and Union, both American and Christian
Here I wonder about liberty to join in a union, and conclude that the Constitution’s bill of attainder provision protects the rights of gays to gay unions equal to that of straight unions, and that the Christian church can give sanction to such unions and provide an example of the right union by giving up the right of divorce. The principle of no-divorce of the Christian unions is more akin to the no-succession principle of the American union than are the civil unions within that American union.
Continue Reading Add comment November 23rd, 2008
Final Solution of the “Gay Problem” for both America and Christianity
Second draft of an idea I am developing about the rights of gays and the prohibition of bills of attainder, and how this can benefit American Christians and help renew the Church and enrich its purpose now. I’ll be working on this probably tomorrow also.
Continue Reading Add comment November 23rd, 2008
Original mistake of California gays in fighting the anti-gay amendment.
The gays in California should not have taken part in opposing the anti-gay amendment. They did not need to, for their rights cannot be curtailed according to the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, a bill of attainder.
Continue Reading Add comment November 16th, 2008
The Gay Case in California
Looking at the ramification of the withdrawing of existing rights from a select group of the population, here the loss of the right to marry among gays in California. Can we now also reinstitute slavery or make chattel of women again?
Continue Reading Add comment November 16th, 2008