Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Music Monday: mewithoutYou | February, 1878
mewithoutYou has a new album, Pale Horses, coming out tomorrow. The above video is the first song off their last album, Ten Stories. You can watch a teaser for the new album below:
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What’s Wrong With Art and Music: A Student’s Guide
More often than not, I give books a 4 out 5 star rating after I read them. This is mainly because I’m fairly selective in what I choose to read and have a good idea what I might like. Occasionally, one of these books turns out to be a dud, and then I end up…
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ZECNT: Logos Version of Galatians and Ephesians
I have a complicated history with commentaries. It is somewhat reactionary at times. As an example, there was a time in seminary that I was almost militantly against using them. My thesis adviser wasn’t a big fan of them, especially in their modern iteration. I felt that if you knew the original languages well, commentaries were…
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The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and The Human Origins Debate
When I look back at the books I read in seminary, few are as game changing and paradigm shifting for me as John Walton’s Ancient Near East Thought and The Old Testament. It was even for a class, but was recommend by two of my Hebrew professors as a good resource into the cultural background…
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8-Bit Philosophy: Is Technology Killing Your Creativity? (Probably)
There is much to consider here. On the one hand, I’ve noticed that using technology has altered my thinking and ability to focus. On the other hand, it has enhanced my ability to do things like say, write a blog. All of this just makes me want to re-read The Shallows. In a similar vein,…
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The Winner of The One-Chapter Challenge
Once upon a time, I started reviewing books on this blog. After doing several reviews, I stumbled upon the ability to receive free books in exchange for my thoughts and pursued transactions of this type in earnest. As reviews began piling up, e-mails soon followed containing requests to review books. More often than not, these…
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New Books of Note
Like most people last Monday, I got sunburned near a large body of water. While I was doing that, I read Scot McKnight’s latest book, A Fellowship of Differents. It is essentially a book about the Christian life in community based heavily on the writings of Paul. The six parts of the book trace the Christian life,…
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Metal Monday: The Ongoing Concept | Unwanted
This is the first video from the Ongoing Concept’s upcoming album Handmade. The album title comes in part from the fact that the band made their own instruments for this record: Pretty sweet right?
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8-Bit Philosophy: Should Animals Have Human Rights? (Speciesism a la Singer)
They left out of some of the more inflammatory aspects of Peter Singer’s idea about how to interact with animals. Also, to answer the last question, yes.
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Interstellar Around the Web
As is our tradition, we’re finishing out the year with a Christopher Nolan film. Part of what I like to do in Bible class is teach cultural criticism, and appreciation of good storytelling and cinematography. So, two years ago it was Inception. Last year it was The Prestige. And now Interstellar. I was perhaps over-hyped…
Got any book recommendations?