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2013-07-21T16:37:12-04:00

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Happy Birthday to Me!

Last updated on: July 21, 2013 at 4:37 pm By Leah Libresco

I am 24 and They Might Be Giants have a heartwarming message for me: Just like last year, I’m spending my birthday at a CFAR workshop, so we’ll see if anyone tops last year’s rendition of the Happy Birthday song: “May you live to be omega, may you live to be omega…” I’ll add, in a terribly self-serving way, that I have a list of books I mean to read and review here at Amazon. And if you particularly... Read more

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2013-07-23T12:57:28-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #7

Last updated on: July 23, 2013 at 12:57 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the seventh entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory I’m choosing to assume that the question is not about the enforcement of limitations on an activity by definite political/religious authorities, i.e., not about the social/spiritual planning measures of committeemen attempting to promote beatitude or create a perfect Fourierist phalanx (or whatever else). The question of active “limitation” will be... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-21T14:10:33-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #6

Last updated on: July 21, 2013 at 2:10 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the sixth entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory Marriage, in its essence, is meant to be an image of God’s love for humanity. It is a foretaste of heaven, a way to help us better understand God’s immense love for us, His self-gift to us, and the life-giving nature of that love. The love between God and... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-19T13:20:48-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #5

Last updated on: July 19, 2013 at 1:20 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the fifth entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory “Is there any reason that marriage (civil and or sacramental) should be limited to the union of two persons?” Yes for both Civil & Sacramental Marriage (opposing both), though for different reasons. I’ll expand on Civil Marriage first. The state recognizes marriage through privileges for people who are ‘married’... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-18T12:19:29-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #4

Last updated on: July 18, 2013 at 12:19 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the fourth entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory The purpose of sacramental marriage is to bring people together in a complete union (that is, they become one) that will serve the purposes of mutual support, procreation and service to God. This provides all sacramentally married people with the kind of love and relationship-based care that enriches and... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-17T20:30:17-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #3

Last updated on: July 17, 2013 at 8:30 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the third entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory First, polygamy should be legal. Civil marriage is a whole different beast from religious marriage (I specify “religious” rather than “sacramental” because not all denominations or religions believe that marriage is sacramental and I want to acknowledge that), and there is no legal reason to outlaw civil polygamy. The... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-16T12:38:25-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #2

Last updated on: July 16, 2013 at 12:38 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the second entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory Church marriage (a term I prefer because marriage is not generally held to be a Sacrament in the Anglican Communion) is a marriage between a man and a woman. The identity of the spouses is still disputed within our society, and I am personally torn over whether faithful same-sex... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-16T12:38:21-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Christian Entry #1

Last updated on: July 16, 2013 at 12:38 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the first entry in the Christian round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory Legalizing multiple marriage would deeply destabilize society. Anti-polygamy laws are a tool to fight fundamentalist Mormons and other cults which violate the dignity of the human person. In any patriarchal society, rich men would build harems, while poor men would be left without a spouse, which leaves them without an... Read more

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Christian Turing answers 2013

2013-07-14T08:32:39-04:00

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Intuition Pumps and Other (sometimes extraneous) Tools for Thinking

Last updated on: July 14, 2013 at 8:32 am By Leah Libresco

Daniel Dennett has written three or four quite good books in 2013. It so happens they’re all appearing together as Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, which, to be honest, I might have enjoyed a bit more as several separate kindle singles. In the first book (as I’d break it up), Dennett introduces the concept of an intuition pump – a thought experiment that helps us use our intuition to get a handle on a knotty problem – and... Read more

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2013-07-13T17:50:38-04:00

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Hey, NYC, invite me to speak!

Last updated on: July 13, 2013 at 5:50 pm By Leah Libresco

I’ll be in New York City August 9th and 10th for my college debate group’s annual summer alumni debate. While I’m in the neighborhood, I’d love to drop in to a bookstore or a theology on tap or a philosophical group to talk about anything from ways to have productive debates, my conversion, strategies for compassionate and compelling interfaith dialogue, Bayesian statistics for everyday use, weirder (and thus easier) ways to start conversation about marriage as an institution, or, as always, musical... Read more

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