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I have found a new use for AI: as a tool to identify motivated reasoning.

For the last month or so, I have been reading (a lot), and writing (a little) about early testimony on the authors of the Gospels, and particularly, the author of the Gospel of John.

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The central question Church tradition has the apostle John as the author of the Gospel according to John, and the three letters of John (1 John, 2 John, 3 John).

Or: ignorance of physiology can lead to misinterpretation of the New Testament.

Kratopistia is a Greek term I have just invented, for the irrational belief in the effectiveness of force to solve problems.

The sides were unequal in the gunfight at OK Corral.

I have just finished reading Musa Al-Gharbi’s book We Have Never Been Woke.

Lucy Letby is a nurse who worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

I found myself watching the first episode of the original (1978) Battlestar Galactica.

There is an important translation error in many English versions of the New Testament.

I use the Vim text editor.

Quoting from Aimé Césaire’s “Discourse on Colonialism” (1950) (as translated by Joan Pinkham): The hour of the barbarian is at hand.

From Henry J.

I suppose the United Kingdom will not collapse completely in my lifetime, but it’s hard to imagine it can keep going much longer.

In a CNN interview in September 2024, Hillary Clinton said that, without moderation and monitoring of social media content, we would “lose total control”.

From Rob Henderson’s Nov 2024 interview at Wellesley College, transcribed in Henderson’s substack post: A lot of graduates and students of elite universities will attempt to co-opt the suffering of marginalized people.

This is John Kerry, no less, in a World Economic Forum discussion, no less, saying that: “It’s really hard to govern today” because of the “problem … of building consensus”.

Nietzsche’s publisher, Ernst Schmeitzner, expressed his frustrations at Wagner and his circle at Bayreuth: Wagner is not even reading Nietzsche’s book … He said to me that people only read Nietzsche in so far as they cling to him [Wagner] … He got off some

[The United Nations] owns the science, and we think the world should know it.