A life in words

  • Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa: bland and divisive

    Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa: bland and divisive

    Not my genre but I can respect some pop. This though does almost nothing for me, and worse “Boys Will Be Boys” laid down some “us vs. them” feminism, shaming anyone who dares not absolutely endorse the song, seemingly rejecting the reality that the sexes experience sexual attraction differently, while ignoring the explicit sexualization happening…

  • On “Is Genesis History?”

    On “Is Genesis History?”

    Is Genesis History? is a 2017 feature film which interviews various believing, literalist, Christian PhDs about how they reconcile their belief in a young earth with their scientific training. And by “young earth” they mean literally 6000 or so years old. Given the fact (in my worldview anyhow) that the planet is vastly older than…

  • Summary and comments on debate: William Lane Craig v. Christopher Hitchens, “Does God Exist?”

    I was speaking to a Christian friend lately and so got in the mode of thinking through various arguments about evolution, existence of God and whatnot. I’ve been watching various debates on YouTube on the topic as a refresher, and wrote up some notes on one of them. They grew far too long for a…

Of a commonwealth, whose subjects are but hindered by terror from taking arms, it should rather be said, that it is free from war, than that it has peace. For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character….Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus V.4, 1670, trans. A. H. Gosset 1883