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March 20, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129 Continue reading

Pam-Toons

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October 22, 2020

Experiment with prose poetry. About Hell.

People wonder where is hell and what is hell and others answer, hell is here. It’s here on earth, and it’s pain. People are in pain and it’s hell. People are in hell. And people are out of hell. Some leave, some enter, some remain. There are three ways, three ways out of hell. First. Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Catch-All

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August 13, 2020

Struggle.

For many, getting through the day is like being a mole on asphalt. Continue reading

Thoughtlets

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August 16, 2019

Introducing Theodicy. What on earth is a Theodicy?!

Loosely speaking, a theodicy is an attempt to explain why God allows evil in the world. More particularly, it’s an attempt to answer The Problem of Evil; that is, to give an account of how the existence of God and of evil are not incompatible. So the problem is just this: 1) God is omnipotent Continue reading

Philosophy

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April 22, 2019

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.

Intro. We are equally vulnerable. Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that, thought there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man [and woman*] is not so considerable Continue reading

Catch-All

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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. As Not To Be Weary of It. Thomas Hobbes

Experiment with prose poetry. About Hell.

Struggle.

Introducing Theodicy. What on earth is a Theodicy?!

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.