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Nope, I didn’t interview him. I wish.
Pieter sent me a link to a wonderful interview with Pete Rollins, partly discussing his recent book The Fidelity of Betrayal (amazon, kalahari). The interview gives some good perspective on what Pete is on about, and the kind of thing that makes me excited about… well… Christianity, though [...]

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OK, my blog now has a simple commenting system, and is in a state where I feel I can start using it. It is my blog, because thinktoomuch.net isn’t anymore — thinktoomuch.net has its subject matter, and is sticking to it, maintaining focus. And that focus does misrepresent me, hence the need to start another [...]

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To finishing this particular blog arc on “God”, I thought we’d take a look at the God(dess) of Deacon Duncan from Evangelical Realism. His patron deity is “Reality”, which he names with what he says is the Greek word for reality: “Alethea”. A baby names website defines Alethea as follows:
The girl’s name Alethea \a-le-thea\ is [...]

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About four weeks ago, Theo Geyser introduced me to Peter Rollins — unfortunately not personally, he just mentioned his latest book. At home, I immediately took a look at Peter’s blog. One of the first posts I read, as it caught my eye and resonated with my ways and thoughts:
To be an atheist you need [...]

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I much enjoy the Evolving Thoughts blog. One reason is John Wilkins’, um, what would you call it, let’s go with “philosophical sophistication”. See for example his thoughts on the whole Wafergate issue. Or my growing collection of Evolving Thoughts bookmarks.
Relevant to the discussions on my blog, Wilkins’ “random thoughts” from a recent post of [...]

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I wrote about Dan Dennet’s TED talk on memes before. Right now, I want to talk about a 25 second section out of it, between 5:00 and 5:25:
I myself am a philosopher, and one of our occupational hazards is that people ask us what the meaning of life is. You have to have a bumper [...]

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It’s 2:45am, I’m back from a long conversation with a good friend, who’s been thinking/seeking/investigating/philosophising for some time, following a religious experience, in the context of a Christian background and culture and possessing an open and inquiring mind. Very philosophical, and digging down to the very basic axioms of meaning and value in life.
The conversation [...]

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My previous post took quite a bit out of me. I thought it a good excuse to take it easy for a week. But now more than a week has passed, I thought I should give you something more to read.
Go read The Value of Science by Richard P. Feynman, a legend of a scientist [...]

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