American issues of Christianity, cosmology, politics, ecosphere, philosophy, contemporary history etc
03 January 2025
Physicalism and Non-locality
Volume and Empty Space
Subjective-Objective Distinction and Democrats
02 January 2025
Balance the Federal Budget
I have been for a balanced budget and deficit reduction since the Reagan era, and have written in support of that since 1991 or earlier. I tended to regard David Stockman’s budget approach as correct.
Suspending fiscal sanity in order to increase the military budget and end the cold war was Keynesianism on a Laffer scale and possibly excusable for one administration since it worked. Continuing it forever after was genuinely irresponsible; especially since the peace was destroyed and cold war resumed
Why Pantheism is an Incorrect Assumption
01 January 2025
Meaning of Exist, Real and Absolute Philosophically Speaking
Was it Kierkegaard who hated the use of the word 'absolute'? That word is derived from absolve that means to free from blame. Most people don't use it that way. He didn't like Hegel's work much and Hegel used the word quite a bit. It doesn't add any meaning to anything really. Absolute is used as a sort of super adjective. For instance in Hegel's 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' (if I recall correctly that book is a kind of abbreviation of the Phenomenology of Mind). It is one of the more over-used words in philosophy, or was. Exist does stand apart. It means one is talking about the condition of being itself. Exist is a basic philosophical word; one of reflection on being. Real is a comparable term although perhaps a lesser one. It seems to mean that something does exist.
Diversity of Life Declines
Gary C. Gibson's books
A Rubáiyát of Political Deficience (poem)
Wist scald a wrecker’s horde of fights and nays Where Destiny miffs Zen for peaches play Politics and losses thick, per wars dap slay And ...
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It is a rather amusing fact that some political elites didn't get the candidate they wanted this year. Ordinary Americans have experie...
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Upgrading standard hard-plastic Halloween masks with eye covering and nose and mouth filters probably would substantially reduce the odds of...