My Morning Jacket sings George Berkeley
I admire the ideas of George Berkeley. He’s probably misunderstood. He probably didn’t think what he was saying was the absolute nature of reality in it’s precise form. He merely brought to the surface that you can be completely sane and logical and believe that the physical doesn’t exist (or more accurately, that the material...
Meaning Language: Is it Meaningful?
Language is meaningful. So what? Meaning is to have purpose, intention, or significance. To signify is to be a sign to express or represent ideas or knowledge. Language can have meaning. But is there actually meaning in the previous sentence? What is Language? Language is transmission of thoughts and ideas through arbitrary symbols of speech,...
Santa: a Misspelling of Satan? Christmas killer.
Santa killed Christ? There is some validity to that statement, but that doesn’t mean Christ or Christmas is gone. Christ is very much alive and swinging after the resurrection according to the Good Book. Christmas still means the celebration of Jesus’ birthday (although his birth most likely occurred during spring, when the census took place)....
The Brick Testament
Sometimes the King James Bible doesn’t cut it. Not everybody is King James, or a king. It’s just in time they came out with a Lego Version. Rev. Brendan Powell Smith, who doesn’t seem to be an official reverend, has been working hard on creating illustrations to the Brick Testament. You can read the Bible...
Absolute Freedom of Present
This article is written to inspect the conflicts of freedom, and foreknowledge of God, and to propose some alternate ideas extending beyond orthodox theories of divine timelessness and monolism. I wrote this article before reading a segment of Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy” written in 524 AD, which deals with the same topic. His explanation is...
Superceding
I was thinking about thinking. Is it possible to not think at all? Or to think of everything simultaneously? I can assume it takes many cubic miles of minuscule meta-thoughts to make one coherent thought. Sometimes, (I think) I am thinking so complexly that my own brain will not understand. Those short moments when I...
