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Credo ut intelligam 😍
A new favorite Latin phrase
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Mike Elias
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How to be a Sheep 🐑🐑🐑
“Sheep-likeness” may be the high point of my intellectual life so far.
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Life update: Why Catholic?
Spiritual truth seems objective after all
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November 2022
Yahtzee 🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲
A theory about how “redemption” works, in the Christian sense.
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Venture Altruism
Here’s why EA is failing, and how it can recover.
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Beating the Final Boss of Philosophy
What to do when thinking runs dry
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October 2022
Believing = Trusting
Why I might replace “believe” with “trust” in every circumstance
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September 2022
August 2022
Binocular epistemology
I was an atheist as a teenager, and when I started believing in God, I still remembered why I had been an atheist. And whenever I’d see an internet…
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Faith and Reason
People tend to consider Faith and Reason to be opposites, but they actually seem inseparable: Ask a scientist how he makes a decision, and he might say…
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Understanding is like loving
Before you love someone, you give a damn about certain things, for your own reasons. When you love someone, you let them change your “giving-a-damn…
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Moral law > Fear of truth
A comedian once said, Christ died for my sins? Cool. I hit myself in the foot with a shovel, for your mortgage. Indeed: What do Christ’s death and my…
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