Author: Larry Sanger
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Can you hold 69,020 books in one hand?
A flash drive with 69,020 books and built-in reader software gives you immediate and uncensorable access to the classics of Western civilization.
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Backing Up Western Civilization: A Proposal to Investors and Philanthropists
IMAGINE that each free encyclopedia and public domain book could be found in thousands of copies, all around the world, making it permanently impossible to censor them. What if we were to create a system in which redundant digital libraries each had a complete copy of this massive knowledge trove, all operating on common standards…
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Five Reductios of Mariolatry
She is qualifiedly Mother of God, and not the Queen of Heaven. And certainly not the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. First posted August 4, 2024; appendix added November 15, 2024. The standard […]
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Books Recommended by My Twitter Followers for My Teen Sons
The prompt was: If you kindly list the most eye-opening books (author & title) that my sons (bright teen and tween) should read before age 20, especially in the fields of science, econ, […]
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A Defense of Sola Scriptura
Here is a fundamental question of (the methodology of) theology: According to what rule, or rules, should we determine our doctrines about the things of God? This question asks about our regula fidei, […]
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A Trip to the Library
This post was updated Sept. 18, 2024, after the launch of the ZWIBook flash drives. It used to be that a visit to the library was something to celebrate. One wandered the stacks, […]
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How Big Pharma uses Wikipedia to push health propaganda
Guest post by Sharyl Attkisson. I don’t often host writings of other people on this blog, but I’ll make an exception for Sharyl, whose book, Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, […]
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On Being “Rich Toward God”
“But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou has provided? So is he that layeth up treasure […]
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The Daily Offload #6
Well, maybe not daily. More like, when I am inspired and have a bit of time. Priorities, priorities. As I looked over Twitter this morning with more than mild distaste, it occurred to […]
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The Daily Offload #5
LinkedIn illustrates how corporations waste influence control your time. The bottom-feeders at LinkedIn have notification settings with 13 top-level categories and many, many sub- and sub-sub-categories, including “on” switches hidden behind tabs. The […]
