I received a pingback to my article “Logic, Mysticism, and Metaphysics.” I went to check it out and found a rather astonishing bit of commentary. Let’s dive in. That “Example” mentioned above was a link to my article “Logic, Mysticism, and Metaphysics,” where I noted that Jesus obligated his followers …
Channeling the spirit of McNamara’s Folly:
I’ve written a lot about the non-Greek Hebrew way of thinking. In this post from last year, I evaluated one mystic’s claim… …and determined that this was completely inverted from reality. The fact of the matter is that the Hebrews were very good at abstract thinking and often preferred to think …
Article Summary: In the greatest commandment, Jesus singled out and emphasized the explicit use of the mind and critical thinking as an act of loving God. He did not emphasize emotions and mentioned nothing of ethics, mysticism, metaphysics, philosophy, or epistemology. Aristotelian Philosophy Three of the “elements of persuasion”—Logos, Ethos, …
I’ve been writing recently about women and how they are treated by society as having “Limited Agency.” I have also, for some time, implored the men in the Manosphere to stop treating women as scapegoats and to take full agency over their own destiny. Well here is that sentiment expressed …
Of the first two, “Racism” is more attractive to intellectual free-thinkers and truth-seekers than “Blankslatism.” That’s because one of the two premises of the racist is correct. But most of the time people stop there. Being accused of Racism is enough to get almost anyone but the most entrenched racist …
I talk about Blankslatism quite frequently. I note that the overwhelming majority of American Christians believe in blankslatism, including most of those in the Christian Manosphere. Whenever I bring it up, there is some skepticism about how true this could be. I get it, you don’t trust me. So here …
This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism and the eucharist. See this index. I have received a number of standard objections to the claim that “the eucharist in the early church was the tithe offering.” Here are a couple of the most common ones: Then the church was …
In “Papal Primacy in the First Councils, Part 7,” I stated: Well, it turns out this is not a unique phenomenon.
One week after posting the following open response, I locked comments and then I reached out to Deti privately over email, just as I said I would in my comment below… …and per his comment: After providing links back here where the evidence had already been presented in 2013 (and along …