Our Big Bang–Fixed or Fair?
Musing on the theory underlying the make up of our universe (leading as it does to intelligent life) and comparing it with a deck of cards in a four hand poker game.
Continue April 26, 2012
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Spreading Cheer in a depressing world
Musing and wondering about the role of spontaneity and how the reduction of spontaneity might well be the reason there is any unsolved problem in the human species.
Continue February 29, 2012
Musing on Mr. Lin and his love of God
Trying to express what I think Mr. Lin represents as an person, and which ends with a call for the Knights of Jerusalem among the Christian youth. Pretty long, I think. Unedited. Really more of a ramble through some related ideas.
Continue February 27, 2012
Musing on unifying the rights of homosexuals and women.
A long ramble leading to the conclusion that women are seen as ever equal in the eyes of the law by virtue of the personhood character that is symbolized by the homosexual marriage.
Continue February 26, 2012
Mormons should not apologize for baptising dead people
A general reflection on lunacy and how it affects the world and what might be accomplished if each lunatic would stop and be rational for a moment, just as he always has insisted to be true of himself.
Continue February 25, 2012
Further reflections on my conception of Mr. Lin
Trying to better formulate my take on what Mr. Lin might represent. I wonder if he is a “Wesleyan “n his hear”. I try to reconcile Kant and Wesley on the concept of duty for the sake of duty and not for love. And then thinking about how competition is useful as for the religious in a quest for world improvement and eventual perfection. Not edited.
Continue February 25, 2012
Muse: Objects of Practical Reason and Mr. Lin’s “Best you can be”
Trying to clear my thinking on the objects of practical reason, namely the good and the evil. With a digression into Lin’s conception of becoming the best person you can be. And then some clarity is achieved concerning Kant’s object of practical reason.
Continue February 22, 2012
The object of practical reason
Musing here on the argument concerning the Highest Good which often seems to fall flat.
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Leibniz and the Monad
An attempt to express Kant’s take on Leibniz’s monad with respect to time and space. Not edited.
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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 December 13, 2009