Captian's Log Rant: The Sound of Silence 28 Sep 2020 The softest sounds make the greatest noise when imbued with meaning. What cannon could compete with the silent expression of a lover's eyes? We go around this life imagining, not…
Captian's Log The Relationship Between Knowledge and Morality 28 Jun 2020 Author's Note: I do not feel satisfied with this train of thought, for I seem to have worked myself into a dead end. I am either wrong, and need to…
Captian's Log Ramblings: Motivation 25 Jun 2020 People do things, but why? One type of motive is that of the itch; if I itch, I scratch, and no further words are required. Some actions are motivated by…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: On the Relationship Between Knowledge and Morality 28 May 2020 Morality I do not find solely a precedent of knowledge, and even consider that doing harm in ignorance but with good intent makes a better person than knowingly doing good…
Top Ten Books Agonson’s Top Ten: The Abolition of Man 2 May 2020 It has entered my mind to formulate a list of books which have been meaningful to me, both in the pleasure they offer and also in the effect they had.…
Captian's Log Thoughts on Plato’s Republic 23 Apr 2020 Due to the Corona Panic, I have had more time on my hands than usual, and I have been finishing up something I started many moons ago, Plato’s Republic. I…
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,…