Gary C. Gibson - Essays

I tend to think of fate as joss. That is whatever occurs happens. My regard is to consider it a post hoc description of what happened. The C...

The Berlin Wall was part of history very well documented. I rode a train through East Germany to visit West Berlin in 1987 when it was still...

Christan values and ethics comprise a theonomy in-the-world looking past the world. Anti-Christians sometimes don’t know that Biblical ethic...

It would be fun to say that each culture assigns the number of liters individuals and classes may have of knowledge when reaching adulthood,...

A Pragmatist Truth paradigm seems to be somewhat of a verficationist paradigm. Socrates said that true belief and knowledge are equivalent. ...

 Worldly ethics differ from Christian. Christians may demure to worldly government for the Lord is Jesus Christ; not the President, Pope, Di...

Established economies are difficult to change to something better. Too much is invested in the present system. Change evolves at best with d...

One might want a little more context; “3 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long...

Apparently there are two major branches of veganism; dietary and ethical. The first is for health and the latter to stop cruelty to animals....

The first modern Republic occurred in Holland led by the Dewitt brothers who were eventually torn apart by a mob of political opponents in f...

Nihilism only takes the broken and 'non-working'? Things that exist necessarily work, even corruption? Forever evolving is a natural...

Wisdom could be said to be understanding social behavior and development of an ability to understand human behavioral characteristics. It is...

  With 32 member nations N.A.T.O. is a very large military body. It can throw it’s power around such as in Ukraine, without concern for reta...

I read somewhere that one should always finish what one starts if it was worth doing to start with. Just put your head down and ride into th...

Germans and Poles have fought with Russia over Ukraine for hundreds of years. For most of history Ukraine was Russian. Communist revolutiona...

AI has lots of information and no awareness. It has been trained to recognize language and meaning without any knowing. For those that wonde...

Cutting enviro protection is wrong. More water needs to be manufactured by desalinating salt water. A trans-continental border security cana...

There is a broad variety of religious beliefs. Some are obviously consistent with some, not all, philosophical pursuits. Philosophy too has ...

If one is a slob one might want to lose weight, launder clothes and clean up the yard. A season of discontent can be edifying.  Change can b...

Jorge Louis Borge said writing fiction is an unnatural act. That was informative for me. In rural isolation I increasingly immerse myself in...