Captian's Log Suicide of Freedom 1 Nov 202529 Oct 2025 Saw this meme and flipped my lid. And my continuing problems with Libertarian philosophy are: 1. No accounting for the history behind things 2. No accounting for anthropology 3. No concept of…
Captian's Log “I’m Increasing Your Medication” 24 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 "Even a worm will turn, mon ami." "Ah yes, but a worm is an animal." "And what are you, you enlightened son of a dog?" "I don't think . . . if you're just…
Captian's Log Dear Sid, 22 Jul 2025 So, three Biblical ideas occur to me while reading your essay: Whether asked to become birds or bread, God seems to keep stones as stones. I don't think it's as…
Captian's Log On Two Kinds of Death 2 Jul 2025 The staccato scratch of the silent sweeper's bouncing broom—I was watching the man as he worked, pushing the eclectic debris into a pile—was like music. A soft sound, one of…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: Hell of a Time 30 Jun 2025 How can the everlasting punishment of Hell be in accordance with Justice? The argument, as I imagine it, might follow these lines: Sins cannot merit eternal damnation because: α. Actions…
Captian's Log Again 15 Jun 202514 Jun 2025 "Again," came the voice from the darkness, and I tried again. "Again," he said when I fell. I rose and fell in the darkness. "Again." In the darkness, on my…
Captian's Log I Think So, Brain, but if We Covered Ourselves in Sackcloth and Ashes . . . 13 Jun 202513 Jun 2025 "Yes, but he's so bad at it." At least, that's how I remember the line going. It's been a hot minute since I watched a favorite childhood show, Invader Zim.…
Captian's Log So Small So Smaller Grow 3 May 20251 May 2025 Just as the little things, too little to be known, are what make up the whole of things, just so, no one can know. It can be felt, it can…
Captian's Log Myth and Allegory 1 May 202528 Apr 2025 No, allegory is allegory, and myth is myth. A myth can be an allegory, but a myth is not, in the totality, an allegory. The allegory, by its nature, has…
By an Idiot The GG 23 Apr 202519 Apr 2025 "It is a great skill," I declared to no one in particular, "to twist an argument on its head, and the present abundance of peace and tranquility, of which only…
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