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, February 27, 2025

God's Ghostwriters: Semi-disappointing foul ball from Candida Moss

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God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida R. Moss My rating: 2 of 5 stars As usual, this is an ex...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Plague of Cyprian nearly ended the Roman Empire? No, really?

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Apparently that's one of the claims of Kyle Harper in " The Fate of Rome ," which I had never heard of before until going down...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Ode to a dead mouse

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When I got home, And opened the door,  I heard the noise,  And my first thought was,  “I got you!  The glue trap  Worked.”    Then,  I went ...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Leibniz: Man vs myth

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The New Yorker has a full and fair look at German mathematician, philosopher, and well, polymath Gottfried Leibniz. Among other things, it ...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

A baptismal anniversary is more important than a birthday?

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 I normally don't go "snark" here, but, this has seriousness behind the snark. The idea above was a comment at a family member...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

The humaste version of the 12 Divarim

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"Humaste," as written about before here and here , is my secularist equivalent of "Namaste." "Divarim"? The H...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

The Buddhist deceptions of Stephen Batchelor

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Now I know why so many westerners tell such bullshit about Buddhism. Stephen Batchelor, in addition to his other lies, claims the Buddha rej...
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