I have spent the last couple of days wondering about a new, radical manifesto for the UK. It started in response to the UK's reliance on what are now very clearly shaky international friendships, and so initially just focussed on technology, energy and defence. And, it uses a naughty word, a lot: sovereignty. Let's look… Continue reading A Political Party Manifesto for the UK
The Bible and the Asymetry of Liberation and Fascism
Oh, hey. Just dropping by for a moment. I probably won't be here long. But I have some thoughts and I don't know where else to put them. Maybe close to 2 decades ago I wrote a post on here called "Am I a Christian?". It was an exploration and functionally a critique of the… Continue reading The Bible and the Asymetry of Liberation and Fascism
The Inadequancy of Jesus’ Sacrifice
My TikTok has finally figured out that I am interested in religious debate. And the video it has presented to me today that has sparked a rebuttal in me is the claim that Jesus’ Sacrifice was not actually to done on the Cross, but to be born at all; it was the choice to become… Continue reading The Inadequancy of Jesus’ Sacrifice
Ethics and the Hunter
Long time readers will know that I’ve been a long time advocate of objective morality, via Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape. Those who have joined more recently may have instead noticed that I have relied on different moral frameworks when talking about morality - the appeal to a conceptual set of rules and values that… Continue reading Ethics and the Hunter
The necessity of secular morality – even for religious people
There is a contradiction at the heart of some escatological religions - or, at least, their interpretations - that I think can only be solved by recognising that it is necessary to have a secular ethical system. The contradiction is this: an escatological religion is one that has in it the claim that judgement and… Continue reading The necessity of secular morality – even for religious people
Pascal’s Wager is a lie
Pascal’s Wager is a lie. Here’s the issue: the wager is essentially a gambling matrix, with two options in reality and two options that you can believe in. The two possible realities are Christianity or Atheism (if you’re a Muslim, the options are Islam and Atheism ― continue to substitute your own God in as… Continue reading Pascal’s Wager is a lie
Ontological Arguments
Ontological Arguments for the existence of God are an odd grouping. Not much holds them together except for their most common rebuttal: that they attempt to define a God into existence. This is not my favourite rebuttal to the arguments, although it is true: ontological arguments for God try to sneak the idea of existing… Continue reading Ontological Arguments
Epistemocracy
Epistocracy and Epistemocracy don’t appear to have set meanings. In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicolas Taleb uses the latter ― epistemocracy ― to define a trait of leadership where the leader has epistemic humility (i.e. is comfortable with saying I don’t know). That’s not necessarily a system of government, as it’s compatible with democracy and… Continue reading Epistemocracy
The Progressive House
This is my second draft of this post, and that’s not how I normally operate. I normally write one draft with very few revisions (or even spell checking ― you may have noticed). Initially, I wrote a point by point rebuttal to Caroline Smith’s The House Progressives Built. But, in writing that, I noticed there… Continue reading The Progressive House
Maps of Meaning, discussion – Part 7a, Concluding Thoughts
Alright, let’s wrap this up. At least one friend and one commenter has pointed out that Maps of Meaning is an academic tome that is quite separate from the content that has made Peterson famous. It’s difficult to articulate whether I fully believe this: I haven’t actually figured out precisely what the remit of the… Continue reading Maps of Meaning, discussion – Part 7a, Concluding Thoughts
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