Heres an analogy that occurs to me as a way of thinking about some of the main issues debated here on the blog over the years. 4. Turn the strawberry the right way out, stuff it then sew up the gap. Posting your copy without proofreading can turn out to be the most destructive mistake for your writing. I want to reach my hand out and stroke it, hold it near, remember it all. I was making a steady middle class income, enough for the Bay Area even, but still not quite as much as when I worked in IT, nine years previous. I dont know what the current value is, but I suspect that the cereal boxes are still worth several hundred dollars each in the current market. Threadjacking is, of course, a sin, a mortal sin, a nigh unforgivable sin. From neo-Kantianism to neo-conservatism, from mortal sin to imported gin, from the dubia cardinals to the Doobie Brothers - discuss whatever you like, within reason. Practical reason? Impractical Jokers? Here is your latest opportunity to converse about topics that have not arisen in the course of other combox discussions at this here blog. I did not know Scott personally, but I always greatly valued his contributions to combox discussions, which consistently manifested Scotts high intelligence, breadth of knowledge, sense of humor, clarity of expression, and charity toward others. In particular, I argued that the artificiality of plastic is not the reason, both because there are lots of old artificial things we dont find ugly and because there is a sense in which plastic is not artificial. Since readers of this blog will naturally find such a statement of interest, I offered to post it here. I have been in communication with Prof. Richard Swinburne, who has kindly offered thanks for the support which you have given to me personally and to everyone concerned that the SCP should welcome lectures and papers from those defending traditional Christian morality. Prof. Swinburne informs me that he has prepared a public statement on the controversy. Feedspot has released its list of the Top 15 Christian Philosophy Blogs and Websites. 1. Thank you, Feedspot! Longtime readers who frequent the comboxes of this blog will be familiar with Scott Ryan, who for many years was a regular commenter here. He was also a moderator and regular commenter at the Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum. Nigel Cundy disagrees. A physicist with a serious interest in and knowledge of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy, he has posted a detailed and thoughtful critique of this part of my book at his blog The Quantum Thomist. My recent book Neo-Scholastic Essays was dedicated to my readers. Thus was I led to defend presentism in the book - which requires, among other things, arguing that the presentist view of time has not been refuted by relativity theory. For example, I argue that, while at least the most fundamental claims of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature might be reconciled with the B-theory of time, the most natural position for an Aristotelian to take is an A-theory, and presentism in particular. Aristotles Revenge is the relationship between Aristotelian philosophy of nature and contemporary debates in the philosophy of time. This year, readers of this blog have been subjected to a long, heated, and sometimes confusing series of debates on the subject of Catholicism and capital punishment. I never ever imagined when I wrote my first lonely post that I would have met this many of you and been enriched so much by th...
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