Social media thoughts
May 10, 2021
I commonly refer to twitter as an online insane asylum. To be fair, I follow politics on twitter, and political twitter is undoubtedly the worst
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Archaic English in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
May 6, 2021
I had mentioned in an Instagram post that I had just finished one of the Harvard classic volumes containing a section of Thomas Malory’s Le
W.E. Channing and the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
January 16, 2021
William Ellery Channing, in his 1840 lecture on the Elevation of the Laboring Classes, discusses the objections of the day to his program to elevate
Age and Wisdom applied to Generations
December 30, 2020
I was reading Sydney Smith’s essay: Fallacies of Anti-Reformers. He names “Our Wise Ancestors” as a “mischievous and absurd fallacy springing from the grossest perversion
Essay on Conversation- Jonathan Swift
December 19, 2020
I have been reading a volume of English Essays, four of which were written by Jonathan Swift. He was a satirist with an exceptional sense
J.S. Mill’s Three Argument’s Against Government Interference in Citizen’s Lives
November 27, 2020
1) When a thing is likely to be done better by individuals than by the government. Generally speaking, those personally interested in something are more
From “On Liberty”, J.S. Mill
November 17, 2020
The nature and limits of the power which can be exercised by society over the individual.The struggle between liberty and authority is the most conspicuous
The Double Tragedy…
November 12, 2020
“Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for
Prevalence-Induced Concept Change
November 7, 2020
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465 I became aware of this last week while listening to Bret Weinstein’s Dark Horse podcast.The gist is, through
Refining Fire
October 9, 2020
On a topic related to forgiveness, I was going through my prayer time this morning- which can sometimes be ‘thought processing time’ and was processing
