If a person is really a Christian, then they do things in the name of Christ. They might not admit to doing so, but they will find a rationalization to that effect. For example, the imperial-colonial mega-killing (Native Americans, slavery, forced labor in Africa, probably the famines in India) were...

[This is not a "Modest Proposal" kind of argument, btw, though initially it might sound like something along those lines.] So, I think that when what for lack of a better term I will call "fearmongering" about Islam crops up, there are natural reasons for this. They are illusory ...

Judging 1,000,000,000+ people sweepingly, is not a very scientifically, psychologically sound thing to do. Whether those 10^9+ people believe in the three-in-one version of the being that the others think of as just one-in-one, or not. Bunk. Christianity doesn't stone people, throw them off building...

@Khaliban: yes. I mean at worst, it's not like anyone *has* to read my posts. However, I want to confine most of my rambling stuff to edits to posts in the thread, so the thread doesn't get needlessly bumped. That being said... @Linna: there is some irony here, inasmuch as I assumed that you were co...

As far as I know, my original dilemma was: Dean stopped talking to me for some reason... So either I offended him, or something happened to him. No evidence I ever acquired indicated that the first option was true; in fact, all evidence I had on that score seemed to be for the opposite. Now, having ...

Well, to make an excuse for why I would continue posting after I found proof that I'm an utter fool---I mean, I have wild first-order beliefs like [a] Chicago will be destroyed on Halloween, by a cult of pseudo-Christians who will either smuggle/assemble a nuclear device from out-of-country using a ...

Superbackground question: how did I get around the fact that I have extremely advanced theoretical knowledge of the concept of schizophrenia, delusions of reference, etc.? Because I kept thinking, "This knowledge SHOULD prevent me from crossing the threshold..." However, instead, I decided...

@Khaliban: the most destructive aspect of this was my inertia near the end... I had originally planned to go about all this much more sensibly, and it galls me so much to know that my original plan would have worked out more or less perfectly (factoring out the Dean variable). Like, rent was way che...

"man, that's rough": haha, yeah, like, I felt like Mr. Reason, and then I think of how I'm making my decisions, and I... don't know, again. A whole city's worth of Schrodinger's cats, haha. That story-character game was... it ended up being competitive in a weird way, almost, like, whoever...

Yeah, I just say so many strange things, thinking they make so much sense, I base incredible predictions on what amounts to Kantian poetry and it's like... I don't know, after all, though. I just don't know. I hope it is good for me to say things here... I mean, like, I felt, after my last-posted in...

Part 3: Journey Before Destination "Dean used to work here, and we... have no way of getting a hold of him... Are you okay? If there's anything you need, please call us." Voicemail end... Dean's birthday is February 26th. In 2016, on that day, I went to the theater in my hometown to see tw...

Part 2: To Go Wherever Dreaming Goes There is a legend in the Jewish religion about 36 individuals who are the exemplars of justice on the Earth. They change from age to age as they live and die and pass on their purpose through the generations, and it is rumored (within the rumor...) that they know...

[I'll leave the title untranslated.] [This is copied from Facebook, where references to certain individuals are simply understood. No account of these people will be provided beyond what is available in the occurrent text.] What are the most important words a man can say? The most important words a ...

I wonder what my alleged system would sound like... Well, ridiculous for starters :P Other than that, yeah, though, no one would like it from the outset (if it were, say, some kind of proposal at an ecumenical gathering or whatever). Or maybe they would, I wouldn't know, eh... Now on another hand, t...

All of this is entangled in my mind with other things, besides. So, for example, it occurred to me that the seven-headed demons in the Book of Revelation might correspond to memes, that is, each demon is a sequence of ideas that, when initially accepted, leads individuals and societies to accept the...

I should've been aware ;) To some extent I think I was, if only through Van Til's counteranalysis (he picked up on the Aristotle-Kant thing in Catholicism/conciliatory Protestantism, although he thought it was a regrettable turn of events*). *Why in the world would I use acceptance of Kant as a yard...

Open to debate, but only "in universe" so to say. Now, a long time ago, I wouldn't have likely said that an interesting argument for/model of ecumenicism, a robust strain of it even, could be extrapolated from the Book of Revelation, yet... It occurred to me that the geographical division ...

In part, though, the appeal is to the foreordaining of things, that is, the sinner acknowledges that their sin is part of the plan of history, incorporated into it somehow, so that it will, in turn, be defeated---whether the sinner will be defeated, personally, is a different, THE different (here) q...

I appreciate that these dice/spinning/etc. images are not so good. Also I appreciate the 99% to 1% kind of ratio, hence the need to find an input into the "equation" besides just free will by itself. The overarching concept is the difference between active and passive information. Some inf...

There might be action-problems that consisted in choices of responses to already given situations, but it would be just as well that we could also choose which situations to get into; the die, if it were there in some metaphorical sense, could roll for either type of problem. But I suppose the image...