Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Metaphysics 101: Creator B.2
[This post is part of the Philosophy 101 series] A very helpful book, although written a few years back before the Open Theists really came into their own, is The Providence of God by Paul Helm. He deals with many helpful subjects related to God’s providence in a mainly philosophical way. There’s very little Biblical exposition, but…
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On late night outings and front page headlines
Interestingly enough today, I learned from the front page of the Dallas Morning News that even the billionaires in Dallas are suffering from the recession. I never knew such a thing was possible, but apparently Dallas has the highest concentration of this species outside of the financial capitals of the world such as New York,…
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Annoyingly Windy: Day 47
Dallas is the new Chicago. Minus beautiful lakeside vistas, a downtown work venturing into, and a choice of two major league baseball teams, one of which has won a World Series recently. Actually, Chicago is way cooler. But that’s not saying too much mind you. But yeah, I don’t really remember it being this windy…
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How bout a break from story-telling?
I figure after 10 parts maybe we could take a break of sorts. Not an extended break, just you know, to try and stretch things out until the wedding? Also, I have a vague feeling (most of them are) that people might be interested in my various thought vomits about life in Dallas. And I…
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Metaphysics 101: Creator B.1
[This post is part of the Philosophy 101 series] As I write this, it’s hard to say whether we can cover the other points in one blog, or whether there might be a part C. I decided it sounded cooler to have an “A” and “B” rather than “part 1” and “part 2.” Maybe because…
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So here’s the story…Part X
By way of a rather awkward introduction (even grammatically), this part of the story gets rather ugly. Even grammar check squirms under the grotesqueness of my sentence constructions. But it is rather fitting for a part of the story being written on Good Friday that one can see the grace of God most evident sometimes…
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Metaphysics 101: Creator A
Part of the delay in getting this blog together should be apparent from the title. I mean, how daunting is it to try and unpack this facet of reality in 1500-2000 words or less (which is what I’m trying to limit each of these entries to, since let’s be honest, most people don’t read this…
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So here’s the story…Part IX
Not many people would be thrilled at the idea of getting up and going to work with their fiancé at 6am on Monday morning. But when your fiancé works at Panera and that means free coffee/snacks/lunch/etc and 8hours of unmolested reading time with the occasional break for kisses; I don’t know about you, but that…
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So here’s the story…part VIII
Sometimes you can spice up a story by breaking chronology. Since I was actually in Florida with Ali all of last week, it seems more interesting at this point to comment on that as part of the larger story of our relationship rather than continuing on with where we last left off (which if you’re…
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So here’s the story…Part VII
It is probably best to go ahead and get this next part of the story rolling before I ended up back in Dallas. My free time will probably be absorbed with all the assignments I have saved for April (which is altogether a different thing than procrastination). Maybe not though, but for sure this Monday…
Got any book recommendations?