Living off grid on a sailboat -- a partial model for counter-culture living?
A couple share their SW Caribbean sailboat experience: It strikes me that this is a start-point for alternative, counter-culture lifestyles. Which seem to be becoming ever more important as we see...
View ArticleLet us listen to Dr McCullough, ponder
. . . is this a witness of truth?Let us ponder what he has to say. END
View ArticleToday is June 22, 1941 + 80 years, let us recall Operation Barbarossa
. . . Hitler's self-defeating invasion of the USSR in World War II: Wikipedia gives a useful outline history:Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) also known as the German invasion of...
View ArticleRobert Malone on the Rogan Experience -- let us hear a dissenting expert
Video, at Rumble: Sobering, we need to at least hear him. END
View ArticleHave we sometimes "dumbed down" our understanding/presentation of the gospel?...
(. . . As well as of its relevance and our Mission?)Friday evening just past, I attended an outreach event here with a visiting minister from Jamaica, and as I waited for the service, I took some time...
View ArticleYou're CENSORED,
. . . you hate-speaking misinformer.Recently, I had occasion to look at my KF post stream, only to see that a post from Dec 12 2009 was set up as unpublished for alleged violation of community...
View ArticleANNOUNCEMENT
For some time, I have been at low ebb on KF.Given developments internationally and regionally, I intend to ramp up activity here, to address a range of issues. So, DV, let's roll. END
View ArticleOn the Christ-Cornerstone foundation principle (and the 4R framework)
For some months I have been doing Zoom Bible studies with colleagues, and in that course, I have been highlighting:This framework leads to unifying the six principles, the NT gospel preachings, the...
View ArticleDallas Willard on knowledge that belongs to the people (and so too, a basis...
About a year ago, I ran across the late Dallas Willard's posthumous book on The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge (2018, Routledge | Taylor Frances, completed by his literary heirs). In it I found a...
View ArticleThere are two types of ignorance, I: innocent, II: willful,
and this matters.One may of course lack adequate opportunity to know, so such ignorance is innocent. However, one may also willfully refuse to acknowledge what is adequately warranted and accessible,...
View ArticleGod is real, knowable and the root of reality
Yes, I mean just that. Indeed, I argue that the knowable reality of God has become a major -- and needless -- conundrum in recent times as there is readily accessible and adequate reason to...
View Article"Mirror, mirror on the wall . . ." -- the self-referentiality challenge and...
A mirror on the wall, framed by asnake eating its own tail [thenotorious ourobouros], anillustration of self-referentialself defeat A very useful definition of philosophy is that it is the department...
View ArticleThe Ciceronian First Duties
I think, it is helpful to summarise the seven Ciceronian First Duties:These, give a general basis on which we can frame law and government, also sound reformation. Which, we now sorely need. END
View ArticleNatural Law, Legal Positivism and the path of reformation
I believe, for cause, that we need to restore the centrality of the historic view that intelligible, built-in first duties and first law are the core of law. If, we are to save our region and wider...
View ArticleThe Ciceronian first duties at work, starting with . . .
In Nietzsche's The Antichrist, we may see an example of how the first duties subtly subvert the cynical, nihilistic hyperskepticism of our day:I shall go back a bit, and tell you the authentic history...
View ArticleSo, how can we restore soundness (and sanity) to law, government and...
First, by understanding what it takes to turn around a community dancing heedlessly on the crumbling edge of a cliff:. . . and, what predictably happens if we go along with the suicidal...
View ArticleIdentifying the Pharaoh of the Exodus (yes, he is credibly identifiable!)
Amenhotep II, plausibly, Pharaoh of the Exodus{HT: Expedition Bible}Traditionally, the Pharaoh of the Exodus is a major biblical study in the folly of lawless oppressive rule, and where it ends,...
View ArticleThe Exodus as a model for sound reformation -- the decalogue and sound...
Amenhotep II, likely Pharaoh of the ExodusLast time, we paused to tie the Exodus in the Bible to a credible point in Egyptian and world history: Pharaoh Amenhotep II, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, c 1446...
View ArticleThai fruit market stall, with seedless Otaheiti [= Malay] and Wax Apples
This Thai fruit vendor's skills are amazing, starting with how he extracts a coconut's jelly and water to sell as a treat:Quite a show, but what caught my eye is the demonstration that there are...
View ArticleThe Rose Apple
This fruit -- Syzygium jambos (there are apparently hundreds of species in the genus) -- is a rural, somewhat rare, treat in Jamaica, it is often pink fleshed, smells of roses and tastes like sweet...
View ArticleWhen Science is perverted into Scient-ISM
From legitimate field of study to domineering cult Watch out!A word to the wise. END
View ArticleWhy do we have 110/120 V vs 220/240 V three phase AC (and Tungsten-based...
An interesting history lesson on electrification and the impact of Chicago:Food for thought. END PS, an explanation of US Domestic wiring is here.
View ArticleGoogle's censors strike again -- I am vaguely accused of "hate speech" . . .
. . . and have a key post deleted, WITH NO DETAILS PROVIDED. I finally found a blogger email* in my gmail junk box, which said that nice generic smear, "hate speech." I am of course invited to...
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