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Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes
Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes- a free ebook examining contemporary cosmology and theology from a philosophical perspective. Christianity, Evolution and Digital Universes Read more
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At Last (a hypo-test stanza)
Beginning and end are nothing to mendalpha to omega are stars just to spendbeing and becoming eventual daysfrom childhood memories to twilights’ last raysemptiness found that forest all arounddevoid of… Read more
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Energy, Fields or ‘Stuff’ Always Existed
Energy always exists, or something does. As Parmenides said being exists and nothing is impossible. Virtual energy from a vacuum is energy from a field. A singularity is something. Some… Read more
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Do Trump or DeSantis Have Arete/Virtue?
I’m enjoying taking a second course in ancient philosophy. It’s a great review since the days when I read the Socratic dialogues and other ancient works passed long ago. Within… Read more
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Lessing’s Intuitive Wisdom for Abstract Existential Analysis (repost)
Reposting an essay for a quiz on a coursera course on skepticism about the story Nathan the Wise Reading Lessing’s play Nathan the Wise was interesting. I read the first… Read more
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Original Sin is Expressed in Entropy Converting Order to Disorder
Original sin is expressed as entropy converting order to disorder. Something of a bit of humor in that; ha ha hanahar!-הנהר. Human nature is embedded in thermodynamic fields that may… Read more
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Could Namibia be the Pot of Gold for Illegal Migrants Chasing the American Dream?
It just an idea suggested by the recent actions of the U.K. to relocate illegal migrants to the U.K. to Africa. The United States has a backlog of more than… Read more
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Some Believe that Plato Heavily Influenced Christianity (in error?)
There were several philosophers before Socrates and Plato that wrote about the Logos and God. People like Thales, Heraclitus and Parmenides, Anaximander and Anaxemenes all presented fascinating ideas concerning being,… Read more
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Parmenides Said Nothing Cannot Exist
It is something of a classification or categorical error when one says something like ‘the Loch ness monster does not exist’. It does exist as a thought, yet not outside… Read more
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Parmenides on Eternal Being (B2-B8)
I thought I would post a fragment of the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides on being. One has Being and Nothingness by Sartre, and ideas developed by many others including Heidegger’s Being… Read more
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Will Seahawks Hire Steve Sarkisian
Univ of Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian is about the right age to take on an NFL head coaching job. With a good record for the Longhorns Sarkisian may be… Read more
