Lay thoughts from my late nights,
for the studious laity.
Essays on theology and philosophy, and the methods behind them: how I read, write, and pay attention. Every essay is narrated, if you would rather listen.
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Latest · Metaphysics
Make Believe What we bring back from fairyland.
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10 essays-
What Is, Ought Be
A stowaway, a whirlwind, a kiss, and a lie.
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An Honest Fight
Underneath a duel, a hand of cards, and an argument.
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The Piety of Wonder
On the Christian coldness toward art and science.
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Word of Honor
Beneath the etiquette of organized violence.
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Hard Supernaturalism
The hardness that reaches for you.
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Children and Monsters
The same power that built the walled garden could never reach the monster inside it.
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Echo of the Word
Large language models are an inadvertent demonstration that Meaning is real.
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Plain Reading
The aesthetic of Sola Scriptura, inherited without the substance that bound it.
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Presentism
Presentism is the historiographic fallacy of vanity.