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
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Top blogging, fourth quarter 2022

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 A quarterly roundup of the most read blog posts of the past three months. Not all were new to the past three months. No. 1, " Libertar...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Martin Luther did not invent the Christmas tree

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 Not as it's known in German lore that spread from there to elsewhere in Europe, then the US. Try 275 years or so later . It's also ...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

The case against Delbert Burkett's Proto-Mark claims, part 2

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  I recently read Delbert Burkett’s “The Case for Proto-Mark.” That was after someone on the AcademicBiblcal subreddit recommended his previ...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Robert Jeffress and the Dallas Observer: STRANGE bedfellows

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The Dallas Observer is Dallas-Fort Worth's alt-weekly, part of the (Village) Voice Media group. Its Dec. 1-7 issue (just 24 pages at abo...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Did Job originally end at the end of chapter 41? What's existentialism got to do with it?

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I doubt it; I hugely doubt it. That's as, per the Blake painting, to riff on a biblical phrase, I wonder: "Who watches the comforte...
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Saturday, December 03, 2022

KERA is taking over WRR? Good after Jan. 3, I think

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 I was driving home Wednesday night and wondered why I was hearing Christmas music in the 7-8 p.m. slot instead of the normal Bill McLaughli...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

Pro Publica panders to 4G, and 5G, tin-foil hatters

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On my main news blog, I wrote recently about Pro Publica's reporting on a Senate committee minority report on the COVID lab-leak hypothe...
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