My grandmother died last week. I wrote about it in my newsletter. It is reprinted here for posterity when Substack goes dark eventually. — She was my grandmother, but of course she was more than that. She was a
Joshua Shrode’slast postabout the inability of the greater good defense to resolve theproblem of evilin philosophical theology initiated a sophisticated discussion between two interlocutors: Mr. Shrode andMicah Redding. Since this is a high-level discussion,I’ll let the two speak for themselves....
For these reasons, I applaud thoughtful attemptsto improve human nature– whether by education, meditation, diet and smart drugs, silicon co-processors for our biological brains, genetic re-engineering, and so on. With sufficient overall understanding, we can use the best outputs of human thought ...
My maternal grandmother, Meta McCarthy–born between the 1stand 2ndWorld Wars, dead as of yesterday–had a favourite passage in the Old Testament. She said if a girl found the verse in the last chapter of the book of Proverbs with the same number as the day of the month when she was ...
” Their pure, sweet voices, minus any instrumentals, carried such emotion. It was as if a band of angels were welcoming their grandmother, my friend, into heaven. It was too much. I felt tears brimming my eyes, then sliding down my cheeks as I thought of my own dear mother welcomed ...
Likes and congrats starting pouring in my feed when it panged me like a slipped disc in my back. I technically said I would read the complete works of William Shakespearein 2016, the year marking the four hundredth anniversary of his death, didn’t I?
In an effort to stoke his domestic popularity, Putin scheduled the 2018 presidential election on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainianautonomousrepublic ofCrimea. Election officials had ruled that Navalny could not challenge Putin for the presidency due to his suspended...
Question What if I want to get married after faking my death? Community Answer Getting married can be risky, but you don't have to get married to bond yourself with someone. Tell them you don't believe in legal marriage and just try to get them to agree to a common law situation. ...