Category: Theory
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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, picking up fascinating volumes at random, discovering whole fields and respected authors one had never heard of. The knowledge was right there,…
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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, and Prevails, was released just last Tuesday. She’s had me on her program a couple times to talk about Wikipedia and my…
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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 for himself, and is not rich toward God [εἰς Θεὸν πλουτῶν].” (Luke 12:20-21) This notion of being “rich toward God” is well…
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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 process of turning off all notifications requires many minutes. This illustrates beautifully how the marketing decisions of social media waste our time.…
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The Daily Offload #3
Shorter, this time. Is evangelicalism dead? Basham’s Shepherds for Sale continues to dominate my feed on Twitter. It’s popular, I suspect, because it makes a case that Protestant theological conservatives have been waiting to be made: that their ranks have been infiltrated by the left, just as mainstream denominations were a few generations ago. Sometimes…
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The Daily Offload #2
Yeah, this is too long for a “Daily Offload.” I’ll make future installments much shorter. 1. Megan Basham’s criticism of Gavin Ortlund. Basham is a Christian conservative who wrote a book published three days ago that I haven’t read, Shepherds for Sale. I know Ortlund through his YouTube videos defending Protestantism against Catholic and Orthodox…
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The Daily Offload #1
For several years, I have been intending to write more in my blog or start a video series. I never get around to starting in earnest because (a) I am frequently perfectionistic, and I want the result to be perfect, and (b) I am too busy. I am always going to be “too busy,” but…
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Is John 6 proof of the real body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist?
Here I’m basically just using this blog to promote a video I just posted. Readers who have followed my earlier posts on religious topics might find this interesting. I am now a Christian. I am at work on a longish post “sharing my testimony.” I am also at work on a book titled God Exists:…
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Wikipedia’s Empire—and How to Build a Rebel Alliance of Knowledge
Summary: This post is all about the essential problem with Wikipedia, and how we can fight back effectively. Wikipedia has become a key tool in shaping public opinion. It fits right in with Big Tech tools that push Establishment narratives. As a result, it has become harder to find a balanced assortment of information that…
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On Biblical Inspiration
Introduction: the problem The Bible, Christians believe, is inspired. What this means, however, is not at all clear, at least according to philosophical theology, in which there is a variety of theories. It seems to me there is a great deal of confusion on this topic, and that is possibly because the philosophical theologians who…
