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Friday, March 29, 2024

Ryan Downie

Epictetus said, Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. One could say this is the very purpose of Ryan Downie's life. What drives him, he said, is knowledge and understanding, an insatiable desire to learn.

Hell and the death penalty

Recently, there has been some interesting discussion on the death penalty and whether or not it should be abolished. The question seems to turn on the moral nature of such a sentence.

God and game theory, part 2

In the last post, I argued, or at least implicitly suggested, that given a Christian conception of God, we would not expect to exist in a physical world — i.e. one of a different substantive class than God, which is governed (for all we can tell) exclusively by natural laws and where we have little to no direct experience of the divine.

God and game theory, part 1

This post is the first in a series meant to highlight potential absurdities of a Christian conception of God where "Christian" here is being used as an umbrella term for any faith that affirms or endorses a view of God based on the Bible.

From an Outsider Perspective

As one without faith, this is an intriguing question. Being social animals, the need to belong is innate and fundamental to our natures....

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