Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Metal Monday: Intervals | The Escape
There’s not a ton of metal bands that have a vocalist only doing clean vocals, but this just works. I wish more instrumental metal acts would make the jump to adding a clean vocalist like Intervals did.
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Learn Schools of Philosophy With A Picture Instead of 1000 Words
For all you visual learners out there, you can now pick up a collection of minimalist graphics illustrating schools of thought in philosophy. Appropriately called Philographics, it is a way to grasp big ideas in simple shapes (hence the subtitle of the book). All of this comes to you from Genis Carreras, who put 95 movements…
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Metal Monday: Animals as Leaders Live
One of my favorite bands, Animals as Leaders released a new album back in March, The Joy of Motion. Earlier in the summer, they played a few of the songs live at Guitar Center in Hollywood. Here is the first cut from the album, Kascade: As well as the first single, Tooth and Claw: If…
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8-Bit Philosophy Ep. 12: Is Time A Flat Circle? (Nietzsche’s Idea of Eternal Return)
Nietzsche is both a complicated and fascinating thinker. I think this video does a good job of explaining a concept of his (the eternal return) in a way that does justice to what he actually said/meant.
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The Mindset of The Apostle Part II
Last week, we continued our review series on N. T. Wright’s Paul and The Faithfulness of God.[ref]Thanks again to Fortress Press for the review copy![/ref] Today, we’ll finish Part II of the book, which is also the end of the first volume. You might think that means we’re halfway through with Wright’s take on Paul, but you’d be wrong. You can refer back to…
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Can I Really Trust The Bible?
There are many theological questions today. At the base of all of them is the question, “Can I really trust the Bible?” Until you’ve really settled that in your mind, all other questions really are up for debate. Without an outside authority in which you can trust, everything’s pretty speculative in the theological realm. Thankfully,…
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The Stories We Tell: Chapters 1-2
Earlier this month, Mike Cosper’s book The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth released. You can get to know him a little better and find out what’s on his book shelf here, as well as read an extensive interview on the book here. Over at Christ and Pop Culture, his…
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Learn Philosophy Using Superhero Comics
I’m always on the lookout for interesting and fun (my definition) ways to learn and teach philosophy. That’s part of why I’ve been posting the 8-bit Philosophy videos. I recently came across another way: superhero comics. You can follow Supergatari on Twitter, and pick up a copy of the book for only $3 over…
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A Bad Reason to Want to Review Books
[This post is part of Reviewing The Life of Book Reviewing] I think before really talking about techniques or trade secrets when it comes to book reviews, it’s worth asking why. Why would you want to review books? I think of several reasons, but if it’s something you’re going to make a habit of, you…
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The Mindset of The Apostle: Part I
Last week, we continued our review series on N. T. Wright’s Paul and The Faithfulness of God.[ref]Thanks again to Fortress Press for the review copy![/ref] Today, we’ll move on to Part II of the book. You can refer back to the table of contents to see where we’re headed after this. Below I’ll give you the rundown on the first two chapters in…
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