A couple of my dearest friends are grey men. “The grey man” is the person who tries to be innocuous in appearance and NEVER displays political views in public. To be the grey man is a survival strategy that has worked for a long time. These grey men have made it through rounds of layoffs, …
I’m reading Lysander Spooner’s “No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority.” In it Spooner makes his case abundantly clear. The Constitution of the United States of America has no legitimate, voluntary binding effect on the people who live here. If you are interested in his arguments, go read it. It’s short. What he doesn’t understand …
Today we came OFF Daylight Savings Time. 1. I’ve never met anyone who liked this time change. 2. It costs an enormous amount of money to deal with the time changes in software, resetting physical clocks, etc. 3. The labor lost from people being late, and even being early, is worth billions. (MIDWITS: LEAVING YOUR …
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I’ve got to build on what we discussed here. Yet more on evil Detecting BS. Discernment. Seeing through the lies. This can be the difficult task when you are looking at evil, deceptive behavior. How do you know when they are lying? How can you tell when you are lying to yourself? Read and learn …
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The wife and I took some friends to dinner at an Amish “restaurant” recently. There is are large Amish and Mennonite communities near our home. Several families serve family style Amish cooking out of their homes. After doing some detective work I got the phone number for one of these families. When I first became …
You many want to go back and read this little series on evil. 1.The Moderate is ALMOST the most evil 2. More on evil 3. A little more on evil Evil is the absence of the Good, as Boethius proved for us 1500 years ago. How then do we see evil in action? This seems …
In his Metaphysics Aristotle gave us four causes. These causes are used to understand what the thing in front of us is. For example, a rock and a hammer can be used to drive a nail. They differ in causes though. Our minds “understand” this, and thereby differentiate between the two. They causes are: The …
Remember, evil is privation of the Good. None of us are entirely good, so we all do a little evil now and then. Dammit. When I do this, I repent, try to fill myself with more of the Good and hopefully the spaces for the sin get smaller and my access to the Good gets …
In the post on how moderates are evil I referenced Boethius’ proof. It goes like this. 1. God is omnipotent. 2. God cannot do evil. Therefore evil does not exist. What is evil then? It seems like it exists. It’s the privation of the good. It’s the absence of good. The farther something or someone …
I have made a lot of money by understanding and trying to predict where everything was going. I’m tired of it. It’s so very fake and ghey. Technology is invented. It’s adopted. It’s exploited. People are harmed a tiny bit more. I’m tired of tracking it. I’m tired of reading about it and trying to …