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, September 29, 2022

Love yourself and probably start there: The Buddha vs Paul, Jesus and the Tanakh

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I mentioned two weeks ago that I had a "secular spiritual experience" that, in part, involved the most famous logion from the Gos...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Perfect proof text for Paul not writing 1 Timothy

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Recently, on Reddit's Academic Biblical subreddit, I'd seen claims that, yes, Paul didn't write II Timothy or Titus, but that he...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Contra Barbara Ehrenreich, et al, on mysticism and ineffability

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This is both a highly condensed and refocused version of an obit I wrote about Barbara Ehrenreich on my main blog, one that I had not inten...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

'Split the log, I am there': reflections on the Gospel of Thomas and beyond

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This particular phrase, listed as a direct quote of Jesus in Saying 77 of the Gospel of Thomas , has long stuck somewhere at least in the th...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Eat your heart out, Georgia O'Keefe, while 'your' church's legend is untrue

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 I had been by San Francisco de Asis Church in Taos before my most recent vacation, but it wasn't until after I got back home and shared...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

The great ahistoricity of Acts and radical thought on Paul's demise

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With a flash of insight while out hiking recently, I thought of not only JUST how ahistorical the book of Acts is, beyond the “we” passages ...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

The lying deceitfulness of Richard Carrier exemplified

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 Regular readers here know what I think of Jesus mythicists in general and Richard Carrier in particular. But, I have now found a new reason...
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