Essay on Astrotheology
I am in controversy, at worst, and debate, at best, with people in a closed group over a number of issues. [I’m sure that surprises no one. 😉 ] One of the topics under ……
Category: Religion
Refutation of an Apology for a Cosmological Claim in the Qur’an
I was challenged by a correspondent, “Does this website make any sense to you?” I interpret her question to be about the webpage, authored by Mohammad Awais Tahir, not the whole website. I began to…
A Refutation, Using Evidence that I Do Not Believe, About Claims in Christian Eschatological Debate – 2018-12-13
In response to a celebration of a supposed take-down of evangelistic methods of the apologist Ray Comfort, I demonstrate how one sub-argument is uncogent: You might ought to rethink the awarding of IO/Preterist of the…
My History of Glossolalia (“Speaking in Tongues”)
I’ll preface it with a description of a practice I developed while playing D&D, 1st edition, in my youth -I know: I’m “dating” myself 　 – in which I was enhancing the credibility of non-human…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-11-4
I’m still having difficulty recovering the progress in getting my balance in my life, in what I do, in how I spend my attention and time. Today, I have responded to a defensive dismissal with…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-10-5
I didn’t drop any Philosophy, any categorizable sharing of my understanding of the practice of that art, though I did engage in some argumentation, including the promoting of critical thinking, and characterizing one shallow analysis…
Post Topic Backlog
I have more ideas for weblog posts than time I can afford to compose them. So, I wish to record them, so I don’t let any “slip through the cracks” [of my skull]. Epistemology: Justification…
Today’s Forays in Facebook Philosophy – 2018-10-2
My first exercise of Philosophy on Facebook was to engage with a friend about issues impinging upon my Modus Tollens argument that a god does not exist. In PM, I pointed out an error in…
Today’s Forays in Internet Philosophy – 2018-10-1
I began today’s endeavors in exercise of Philosophy in engagement in direct messaging (DM) with someone who made a friend request, and replied to my polite inquiry as to why with an intention to “revert”…
Sin: The Second-worst Doctrine of Christianity
While Hebrew or Aramaic words are translated ‘sin’, in English versions of the Tanakh, or “Old Testament”, as most Christians call that collection, the originating documentarian (as far as we know) of the Christian religion,…