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, October 23, 2025

'Karma' 2.0 — a secular spin on Edward Arlington Robinson

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Ennui was in the air, and one lament From me, one of a few confusing flaws In divers of self-images. Because The world round me would not m...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Top posts for the third quarter of 2025

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As usual on this quarterly roundup, these top posts may not all have been FROM the previous quarter, just the most commonly read. I'll n...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Novels, nostalgia and need

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I grew up in Gallup, New Mexico, self-proclaimed "Indian Capital of the World." Years and years ago, I read many, though not all,...
Saturday, October 04, 2025

Still looking for ways to improve the blogroll

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Looking at a couple of recent additions, as I delve in: ==  I can't remember where I saw "The Amateur Exegete," but I thought ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Funerals and obits: The quick and the dead

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Per the header, and per the old saying about funerals being for the living, not the dead, the same is true, maybe even true in spades, for ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Did Josephus really, REALLY write the Testimonium Flavianum?

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Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ by T. C. Schmidt My rating: 1 of 5 stars If Schmidt's purpose was to convi...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

LCMS prez Matthew Harrison headfakes, then dives back into full wingnuttery.

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Harrison, the president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the US's largest fundamentalist (you are) religious body, is trying to th...
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