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November 2019

November 25, 2019

The Thanksgiving for Gives and Takes (Blessed be!)

Thankfulness at a moment of loss seems odd. Am I glad for death, pain, or suffering? No....

November 15, 2019

If the Magic is Real (Ethics and Limits in Shakespeare’s Tempest)

The Magic is Real If magic were real, then what would you do with (say) an...

November 10, 2019

Being Cordelia: She Would Not Flatter for a Kingdom (King Lear, William Shakespeare)

Lying to the Leader: Self-Dealing or Clever? Would you tell the leader, a President, Pope,...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Don’t Listen to the Witchy Witches, the Rest Mayhap (Macbeth)

The Witch or the Wise Woman Beware witchy witches and fight demons, but if you...

October 18, 2019

The Beloved is a Profoundly Wonderful “Whatever”

It is clear then that the essential object of love, or the Beloved, is “whatever.”...

October 17, 2019

Knowing Self, God Knowing Us (Bonus: On False Stories about Gods!)

Philosophy, the love of wisdom, begins in knowing self. This is not the “self-knowledge” of the...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

I am sorry, but I am with the Tree OR Why You Should Apologize TO MORE PLANTS!

I am told some Christians apologized to plants. Good for them, theoretically, as this is...

September 20, 2019

Thinking Through Implications is Good, not Ad Hoc Reasoning

Thinking through your beliefs is not “ad hoc” . . . At least in a...

September 08, 2019

I pray because it works. (On Missing Legs)

Prayer probably works, even if you are an atheist. Prayer almost certainly helps the person...

September 02, 2019

The Failure of the Odyssey and the Need for Hope

We need hope, badly. Is there hope for a happy ending in reality? Can a...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

What will I give up? (The High Cost of Certain Forms of Materialism)

As a boy the Dallas Cowboys were led by the very admirable coach Tom Landry....

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Red Shirts Don’t Justify Brown Shirts

“There is no longer any political question at issue here. This thing cannot be judged...

July 30, 2019

Patience at the Play (Pericles) or Joy serves the Patient

So on your patience evermore attending, New joy wait on you. Here our play has...

July 23, 2019

Don’t Get (Needlessly) Stirred Up

WE ARE DOOMED! SOMEONE IS DOOMED! THE NATION IS DOOMED! DOOM! This may be true,...

July 22, 2019

We Should Not Wish to Own the David (Florence should keep it.)

It is so beautiful I will not use the picture I foolishly took: The David. I...

July 21, 2019

Knowing and not Knowing: An Idea Might Not Have Those Consequences

Sometimes ideas have consequences: good and bad. Often people who hate an idea will pretend...

July 18, 2019

Hope in God, A Reasonable Act (Habakkuk)

Do you ever get tired of the times? I do. Sometimes I am tired, just...

July 17, 2019

Don’t Devour the Poor (Habakkuk)

Do not devour the poor. When the weak are despised by the elite, the rich,...

July 14, 2019

No Verse 14, Without Verse 13: No Glory with Injustice (Habakkuk)

I long to see the glory of the Lord, but I cannot see His glory...

July 13, 2019

Living By Faithfulness : History and God (Habakkuk)

God is with us: justice with mercy are certain. And yet. And yet we will...

July 12, 2019

You Would Not Believe if Told, But Don’t Worry You Will Not Be Told (Habakkuk)

5 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing...

July 09, 2019

On How We Got Morals, Versus The Nature of Morals

If I knew why I loved the beloved, this would not tell me if the...

July 08, 2019

God Spoke (Thanks Mom!)

My Mom and Dad never just give a birthday card: they underline, consider, and try...

July 02, 2019

All that Free Beauty . . . Plant a Garden

The stars are ours, all of us, a beauty that never ends, changes interestingly, and...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

Wrong Ideas Were Helpful (Heraclitus)

Wrong ideas can be helpful. . . Sometimes. Nobody ought to wish to be wrong, but...

June 22, 2019

Is this the best of all possible worlds?

I was chatting with a social media acquaintance, someone I hope becomes a friend, who...

June 18, 2019

All “Things” Steered Through All (Look for the Design)

227 The wise is one thing, to be acquainted with true judgement, how all things...

June 15, 2019

Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration. . .

248 Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration.* So said Heraclitus: the wisest...

June 14, 2019

Hades and Dionysus are the Same

243 For if it were not to Dionysus that they made the procession and sung...

June 13, 2019

The Five Worst Arguments (or Claims) Made By Internet Theists

Some arguments are so bad, nobody should make them. In fact, making them slaps a...