Reason and Meaning

Leonidas DrosisC messier, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/4.0> by Chris Crawford I recently realized that the purpose in life that I have always pursued may no longer have meaning.

Eric Pouhier, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5> In a recent discussion about homelessness, someone stated that most homelessness was caused by drug and alcohol abuse.

Kimberly Vardeman, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons by Lyle Troseth Despite the irony that being alive means enduring hardships, we almost universally want to keep living.

Portrait of George Eliot National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things…

In the picture above, my brother Richard, who passed away a few weeks after this photo was taken, my 85-year-old brother Ed, and I are pictured.

Henri-Pierre Danloux, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Le Baron de Besenval dans son salon de compagnie at the Hôtel de Besenval, by Henri-Pierre Danloux (1791).

In the summer of 1974, I was driving east on I-70 in St.

Kaisching, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The philosopher Joshua Shrode has been working on what he calls Ontological Admissibility Theory (OAT).

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In response to my last post, “The Futility Of Arguing With Theists,” Chris Crawford offered following insights.

Received this interesting email from one of my former students in response to Jerry Coyne’s article: “The ‘Best Arguments for God’s Existence Are Actually Terrible.”

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In response to a previous post, Professor Darrell Arnold penned this thoughtful reply.

William Shakespeare, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

“The common good should be the supreme law”, in the Swiss Parliament.

I recently shared that I have been diagnosed with 4% Afib and that a case of dizziness landed me in urgent care.