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2012-10-03T16:51:30-04:00

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Unarmed Prophets Stuck in a Chinese Room

Last updated on: October 3, 2012 at 4:51 pm By Leah Libresco

I received a comped copy of Alone with a Jihadist through Speakeasy. Aaron Taylor spent seven hours arguing with Irish convert to Islam Khalid Kelly as part of a documentary called Holy Wars. After the debate was over, he was troubled by Kelly’s conflation of religion and the state and endorsement of war as evangelization. This book lays out his pacifistic theology. When I signed up to review this book, I though more of it would be focused on the debate itself,... Read more

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offering resistance

2012-10-02T13:20:54-04:00

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Turns out someone was actually converted by the LARPing strategy

Last updated on: October 2, 2012 at 1:20 pm By Leah Libresco

Back in the archives of the Why I am Catholic repository of conversion stories comes this anecdote from convert-from-Paganism Libby Edwards: I also enjoyed comic books. (Bear with me; this will all tie together in a moment.) My favorite character was from The Uncanny X-Men, a blue, fuzzy mutant with a spaded tail and a penchant for swashbuckling with a sword. His name was Nightcrawler, and he was a devout Catholic–possibly the only devout Catholic to ever star in comic... Read more

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Debate Tactics

2012-10-02T09:27:32-04:00

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Just Give Me One Good Reason Not to Change My Mind

Last updated on: October 2, 2012 at 9:27 am By Leah Libresco

Eli of Rust Belt Philosophy thinks my LARP Your Way to Truth advice is a snare and a delusion. Let me post some excerpts, but you should pop over and read the short takedown piece in full for fairness: To begin, I cannot begin to imagine why Libresco thinks that curiosity only happens in the context of suspended disbelief. Perhaps she herself has that sort of cognitive limitation – though I doubt it – but it’s hardly something that the... Read more

Debate Tactics

2012-10-01T12:49:56-04:00

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For the 800th Post, a Blast from the Past

Last updated on: October 1, 2012 at 12:49 pm By Leah Libresco

Hurrah! And I’m even more delighted by the nearly 18,000 comments you lot have posted since this blog started in the summer of 2010. I’ve been going back through the archives, five posts a day, to finally fix the tags that got mangled in the Patheos move, and I found a preconversion 7 Quick Takes that I thought would be fun to rerun today. Take it away, past!Leah… I started this blog over the summer as a way to try... Read more

Conversion

Housekeeping

2012-10-01T10:31:02-04:00

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Costuming Collapse

Last updated on: October 1, 2012 at 10:31 am By Leah Libresco

This week, I was working on making a new muslin draft of my corset pattern for my Dryad costume. Unfortunately, once again the fit was quite off, so the test fit pictures are NSFW. With Halloween drawing on apace, I’m caving and looking for a commercial pattern this week. While I wait for it to arrive, I’ll start working on the mask (since I only need to run to a hardware store to pick up wire). Next week you should... Read more

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2012-09-30T16:02:39-04:00

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Who Can Blaspheme?

Last updated on: September 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm By Leah Libresco

Today is International Blasphemy Rights Day, spearheaded by the Center for Inquiry. It’s pretty much Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, but with a broader focus. I fully back CFI’s fight against blasphemy laws (remember, just in the past few months, Alexander Aan and that girl in Pakistan). I’m a little more dubious about the practical use of having people in the U.S. and other relatively free nations blaspheme as a way of drawing attention/funds to the fight against blasphemy laws. But... Read more

2012-09-29T09:29:31-04:00

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Contra Pangloss et Oprah

Last updated on: September 29, 2012 at 9:29 am By Leah Libresco

I recieved a comped copy of Glorious Ruin as part of the Patheos Book Club. This may be a matter of taste, but I thought Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free was too peppy for a book on the theology of suffering. I like small, tightly focused books, and I thought returning again and again to Job was an interesting idea, but there was a weird quality of breathlessness (and too many exclamation points) throughout. The best part of the book contrasted the... Read more

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problem(s) of evil

2012-09-28T14:16:03-04:00

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7 Quick Takes (9/28/12)

Last updated on: September 28, 2012 at 2:16 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — If you read no other Quick Take today, read this one and do me a tremendous favor. My housemate Alex (co-creator of those philosophy t-shirts) has been nominated for “Best Viral Song/Video about DC” by Express Night Out. Can you all pop over and vote for his “The Ballad of Pepco” under the DC Life tab? Here’s the background: Pepco is the utility company for the DC area, and it’s terrible. We had a lot of blackouts... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2012-09-27T15:31:32-04:00

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Erga Mortuos, Nihil Nisi Caritas

Last updated on: September 27, 2012 at 3:31 pm By Leah Libresco

Chris Hallquist is asking whether there’s any reason to read the works of the dead charitably. When it comes to the living, he can see the following advantages: Charity helps avoid flame wars It’s good to be careful not to unjustifiably damage someone’s reputation From a Machiavellian point of view, it’s nice to close off responses of the form, “what I meant was…” But he doesn’t think any of them carry over when the author is dead. I’ve got a couple... Read more

Debate Tactics

2012-09-26T10:51:00-04:00

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Happy Petrov Day! Celebrate by not annihilating everyone!

Last updated on: September 26, 2012 at 10:51 am By Leah Libresco

Taken from the description of Petrov Day on LessWrong: The story begins on September 1st, 1983, when Soviet jet interceptors shot down a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner after the aircraft crossed into Soviet airspace and then, for reasons still unknown, failed to respond to radio hails. 269 passengers and crew died, including US Congressman Lawrence McDonald. Ronald Reagan called it “barbarism”, “inhuman brutality”, “a crime against humanity that must never be forgotten”. Note that this was already a very,... Read more

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