Month: October 2024

Donald Trump full remarks at Inaugural National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, GA (Oct. 28, 2024)

If you’re intellectually impatient like me, just start watching at 47:00 when they start to stretch out their hands to cast a magic spell. That the faith community is backing Trump is wonderful. If Trump loses, it will be a powerful argument for the futility of prayer. There are reasons hospitals don’t have faith-healer departments. Donald Trump full remarks at Inaugural National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, GA (Oct. 28, 2024)

Philosophy and the Will

“In Leibniz’s sense, a ratio sufficiens, a sufficient reason, isn’t at all a ground capable of supporting a being so that it doesn’t straightaway fall into nothing. A sufficient reason is one that reaches and offers to beings that which puts them in the position of fulfilling their full essence, that is, perfectio. ” (Heidegger, Philosophy and the Will

Lies & Deception from Trump & Turley about Violent Crime: Part 2 – The Details

During the presidential debate between Trump and Harris, Donald Trump made a comment about crime in the United States: …all over the world crime is down. All over the world except here. Crime here is up and through the roof. … Crime in this country is through the roof. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-presidential-debate-transcript/story?id=113560542 (Viewed 10-11-24) In my Part 1 Lies & Deception from Trump & Turley about Violent Crime: Part 2 – The Details

Does Literary Imitation Suggest Christ Never Existed: The Trump Lens (2/2)?

Previous Posts in this Series: (1/4) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Continental/Analytic Philosophy Divide (Part 2 of 4) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Continental/Analytic Philosophy Divide (Part 3/4, AFTERWORD) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Christ Myth Theory and the Lord’s Supper (Part4/4 Appendix) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Christ Myth Theory Does Literary Imitation Suggest Christ Never Existed: The Trump Lens (2/2)?

A DOZEN LIES FROM TRUMP – Part 11: The Jobs Data Revision

Washington (CNN) —  Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. … the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories Here is LIE #11 from Donald Trump: The jobs revision After the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in August that its annual revision of A DOZEN LIES FROM TRUMP – Part 11: The Jobs Data Revision

On the Essence of Hiding; or, Philosophical Truth

FOR THE SHORT INDEX OF MY PHILOSOPHY POSTS, SEE: The Joy of Philosophy (Postscript and Poetry) For the Greeks, “Truth” was “Aletheia (un-hiding)” with the grammatical alpha privative (“A-letheia” = disclosing from hiddenness”). For example, in circumspection, a doctor deliberates about all the patient’s symptoms and possible causes and remedies until the doctor comes to On the Essence of Hiding; or, Philosophical Truth

A DOZEN LIES FROM TRUMP – Part 10: Migrants, prisons and ‘the Congo’

Washington (CNN) —Former President Donald Trump is littering his public remarks with fictional stories. … the Republican presidential nominee is telling colorful lies that are completely untethered to reality. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/fact-check-donald-trump-fictional-stories Here is LIE #10 from Donald Trump: Migrants, prisons and ‘the Congo’ For months, Trump has told a story about how “the Congo” has deliberately A DOZEN LIES FROM TRUMP – Part 10: Migrants, prisons and ‘the Congo’