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Free Speech Issues in the UK???

I'm American, but I moved to the UK about 13 years ago. Been living and working here since then. Over the last few years, there's been a significant increase in a feeling by a large part of the UK citizenry that the government is overbearing in what kinds of speech it's willing to punish. I...


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Why Christianity Fails (The Testimonial Case)

Why Christianity Fails (The Testimonial Case) Christianity doesn’t treat the resurrection as a side issue. It treats it as the load bearing claim. Paul says it plainly: “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins” (1 Cor. 15:17). If that claim doesn’t hold as an...


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How Account for the Success of Christianity?

This question comes to my mind during the Christmas season. I'm inclined to attribute it several factors, which I'll summarize. First, its thorough assimilation of pagan religious beliefs, especially those of the various pagan mystery cults involving rebirth, salvation and life after death (it also...


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JTB+U and the Grammar of Knowing: Justification, Understanding, and Hinges (Paper Based Thread)

I wrote an earlier thread titled “Thoughts on Epistemology,” which was intentionally wide angle and exploratory. This thread is different. It is anchored in a single paper I wrote titled Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension, and I want the discussion to stay close...


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Biometric data. Your opinions and evaluations.

Arguably Techno Feudalism is the encroachment by data gathering enabled by capitalist funded market growth in electronics and storage of personal data. Biometrics is the crossing of the Rubicon, because Techno Feudalism as the name suggests is the subjugation of individual liberty to the coercion...


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