Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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8-Bit Philosophy: Is Trump The End of Politics?
Yesterday on Instagram, I promised a post on predestination and free will. Rather than get all controversial, I thought I’d post about Trump and politics instead. At this point, he has been inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States (technically 44th person to hold office though because Grover Cleveland). This video was from…
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Reading Recommendations for the 2017 Reading Challenge (Hint: Ad Fontes)
Earlier this month, I mentioned that I was doing the 2017 Reading Challenge. I should be clear that I think this time I’m approaching it as less a challenge and more a good categorical list that helps pick books to read. For me, reading 100 books isn’t that challenging, but reading wider is. Whether that’s…
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Muscle Monday: Workout Options for TheoFit Cut
When I posted about the TheoFit cut last week, I almost went on a tangent about workout routines. But, I realized it made sense as its own post. Hopefully, if you’re not doing the cut, some of what follows will still be of interest and/or help. For a bit of history, I started working out…
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8-Bit Philosophy: Why Are We So Nostalgic?
With so many bands going on 10-year anniversary tours for albums that came out between 2005-2007, I’ve been thinking about nostalgia. The cynical part of me wondered if these tours were simply cash grabs to take advantage of the fact 10 years later the demographic is older and will buy more merch. The musician in…
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TheoFit and Brief Thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions
Over the years, I’ve actually written quite a bit about New Year’s Resolutions. I am generally a fan, although not in a completely uncritical sort of way. I find it helpful to use the break over Christmas to re-evaluate my life and make changes were it seems appropriate. I’ve realized that this involves habit building…
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Kierkegaard: A Single Life
It’s a New Year and time to resurrect philosophy Friday. Maybe not every Friday mind you, but many of them. In the past I had previously just posted videos with sparse comments (see here for instance). Now I’d like to actually do some philosophizing (with and without a hammer), as well as post about some…
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Can Young Academics Review Books Well?
Young academics shouldn’t be allowed to do book reviews. Either: too much to prove, extra critical, miss forest for trees; or say nothing. — Jonathan Leeman (@JonathanDLeeman) December 19, 2016 Over Christmas break, I was mostly reading books, but I saw my fair share of Tweets. The one above caught my eye, and also got…
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The 2017 Reading Challenge (And How to Complete It This Year)
You may have seen my monthly posts throughout 2016 about Tim Challies Reading Challenge (see my year end post here). He made some changes to the overall plan to make it more flexible and is continuing it in 2017. You can download the plans here. This time around, I’m planning to be a bit more…
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2016 In a Single Picture
2016 was an interesting year. On the one hand, Ali will tell you it was one of the hardest years of her life, and I could probably say the same. On the other hand, for me personally, it felt like what this picture looks like. Storms all around, but mostly moments of clarity (and that…
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Three Book Lists for the Price of One! (And Some Authors I Like Too!)
I did quite a bit of reading in 2016, just over 48,000 pages to be exact. I participated in Tim Challies 2016 Reading Challenge (see below for month by month lists) and will probably do so again in 2017. I didn’t complete it, but that’s because I didn’t feel totally constrained to read in the…
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