Captian's Log Rambling Thoughts Regarding Truth 3 Apr 2020 To conclude from the observation of our colored spectacles, our disparate perspectives, that we are somehow incapable of comprehending objective truth, is first a self-contradictory claim—to say that knowledge of…
Captian's Log Thoughts on the Classical Arguments for God 22 Mar 2020 Ontological I have a love hate relationship with this argument. As it is most commonly quoted, it appears like something Lewis Carroll would write, some meaningless, circular nonsense straight from…
Captian's Log Two Extremes 23 Feb 2020 Excerpts from a paper: On the whole, however, the Bible and Christianity are often dismissed without argument; indeed, they are dismissed without even the faintest knowledge of what the Bible…
Captian's Log Book Review | Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air 5 Feb 2020 I am not sure how to best respond to Relativism by Beckwith and Koukl. On the one hand, it clearly describes and subsequently unravels a rather obnoxious, if popular, philosophy,…
Captian's Log The Meaning of Life 27 Jan 202027 Jan 2020 It seems inevitable to me that life has a purpose, for if it had none, if our lives were meaningless, then we should have no reason to want meaning, for…
Captian's Log Essay on the Death Penalty 10 Jan 2020 Please Read: The Rectitude of the Death Penalty Excerpt: And in a final aside, though I intended to avoid this rabbit trail, the topic of abortion has been erected. I…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Death? 7 Jan 2020 Some medicine I took has made me a bit too drowsy to write a post tonight. Instead, I'll show another few paragraphs of an essay I'm working on. Continued from: Rough…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Death? 5 Jan 20205 Jan 2020 There are aspects in the modern mode of thinking which do not follow for me. In this case, one of my life’s recurring themes is the antagonism of all my…
Captian's Log Considering Speech-Acts 13 Nov 201913 Nov 2019 (Forgive some confusing aspects of this post: It was written for a class I am taking, and in it I assume certain information which may not be common to my…
Captian's Log Seeing 23 Aug 2019 What is wisdom? Perhaps a foolish question. Proverbs say that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, and parallels this with the concept that understanding then comes when…