Author: Mr Nobody
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The fear of God and wisdom
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom means that being wise is about being afraid of the right things. This is a fact of such broad applicability that it’s impossible to know what else to say about it. It applies in every possible area of life. There are always things to be afraid…
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Justice (part 2)
What is it about this incorrect idea of justice that is correct? Because Marx wasn’t on to nothing. There is a sense of injustice that he and others like him were attempting to correct. We’ve just shown, and history has also shown, that despite its best intentions, when used as a guiding, defining moral calculus,…
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What kind of justice should we seek?
There is a problem with justice, in that because the world is what it is and because people are what they are, you can’t get both kinds of justice that people seem to want. People think everyone should have a fair, as in equally advantageous, shot at success. Each person should have as much of…
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What the sexes owe one another
Marriage is a strange but curiosly persistent and widespread arrangement. How humanity arrived at it, whether by nature or by divine appointment, if there is any sense in making such a distinction from the perspective of the time, isnt really my concern here, and isn’t a question that can be empirically answered. It certainly seems…
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An incomplete farewell letter
In the event that I have Coronavirus, and in the less likely event that I die from it, I suppose I had better come up with some fitting last words while I still have the capacity instead of gasping them out in a delirium or making hand gestures while a ventilator keeps my weakened lungs…
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The Jewish odyssey: historical, archetypal, or both?
The description of God in the Bible always seems to run just ahead of the mode of being at the time. So that looking back from each rung upon which his followers reach, they see how what came before makes sense in the greater context. The world slowly opens up. Their mode of being slowly…
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In what sense is religion true?
It’s at least plausible to say that the Biblical stories are psychologically true. I think even great critics of Christianity would agree with many of the philosophical and psychological truths they contain. And it’s not clear that saying they’re psychologically true exhausts all the ways in which they might be true. They certainly get a…
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Welcome
Hello and thank you for coming! Let me be perfectly honest us front. There is no coherent structure or purpose to this blog. I’m not especially interested in creativity or authenticity, and I’m not great at producing them. I have a very hard time being brief, and I like to repeat myself a lot. I…
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Fears for the future election
I’ve heard so many smart people discuss so many issues. But here is one question I would love to see addressed. How do you sleep at night? Knowing everything that going on, maybe knowing too much, how? Seeing the madness and tribalism slowly overtaking our safe corners, working it’s way into the people I work…
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Jung and Thomas Sowell
I finally understand, I think, what the archetypes of Jung are. I was thinking of them too much like an English major. They’re like built in concepts hardwired into human psychology. They map onto oract as symbolic representations of something built into the human psyche. They reflect some deep seated conceptual framework or concept that…
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