The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly

This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.

The Philosophy of the Socratic Gadfly
Thursday, July 10, 2025

United Methodist Church crack-up gets more serious

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I wrote in detail about the basics about 18 months ago. The crackup itself was ultimately not so totally much about theology — ie, gay marr...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

The sayings of Jesus: Pearls before swine

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Matthew 6:6: Doesn't make much sense to me for one BIG reason. Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swi...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Missing: A fourth philosopher on grief

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Big Think has a pretty good short piece on three philosophers as standard-bearers for approaches to grief. After an initial hat tip to meme...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

And, back to the issues at r/AcademicBiblical

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 The first is from a mod, not a question-poster or a regular commenter. Well, actually it's from John Meier. I've not read all thre...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

I will take a pass on Alfred Mele

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 (At least he's not racialist Frank Miele!) This is adapted from an updated version of my review of two piecse by Gregg D. Caruso who in...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

The sayings of Jesus: Do not worry

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I had said at the end of Amy-Jill Levine's newest book that I wanted to take a critical look at several sayings of Jesus from  The Sermo...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Euphemism creep and language issues

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First, "euphemism creep", or the " euphemism treadmill ," per Steven Pinker is a real thing. James McWhorter has also wr...
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