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Scheduled posts are ‘on hold’ while I work on ‘back burner’ projects, including a book that’s starting to take shape.
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I posted an excessively-long discussion of what happened and what I’m doing on Marcy 26, 2018: “In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I’m Taking a ‘Break’.”
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Ghosts?
Whether or not I believe in ghosts depends on what’s meant by “believe in” and “ghosts.” And how I see myself, for that matter. I’ll be talking about ghosts and why I think seances are a bad idea. Also, briefly, … Continue reading
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Posted in being Catholic, discursive detours
Tagged angels, death, last things, materialism, metaphysics, philosophy, superstition
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Gnosticism
Some folks act as if they think physical reality is bad and having a body is icky. The notion’s ‘Biblical,’ sort of. Galatians 5:19 through 21 call bad ideas like licentiousness, hatreds and idolatry “works of the flesh.” With a … Continue reading
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Tagged dualism, folklore and myth, history, metaphysics, monism, philosophy
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Materialism, Robots and Attitudes
Robots are starting to look and act a lot like humans. Wondering if robots can be people, or if humans are merely biological robots, involves assumptions about reality. I’ll look at one of those assumptions in this post and why … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, faith, history, materialism, metaphysics, monism, philosophy, reason, robots
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Spirit Photographs
My wife asked me if I knew some of my ancestors were spiritualists. She’d seen an odd picture of my Campbell forebears while putting together a family photo album. This was in September, 2011. I had, and even knew a … Continue reading
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