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July 7, 2010
The Last Word in Time Travel Stories
http://www.omnivoracious.com/2010/07/behind-the-scenes-mike-allens-hot-new-anthology-series-clockwork-phoenix.html
Alas, I do not think workmanlike Murder in Metachronopolis (buy it here!) is the Last Word in Time Travel stories. Let me ...
Prayer Request
I just found out on a radio program (it was a Christian radio station, discussing the New Atheism) that lovable socialist drunk Christopher Hitchens has been hospitalized with cancer.
The radio program, (I think it was Janet Parshall’s IN THE MARKET, but I am not sure. Perhaps this edition? http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramDetail.aspx?id=53067) ended by asking all listeners to pray for Mr. Hitchens, that he make a speedy and whole recovery.
I thought it no less than simple decency...
Wright's Writing Corner–The Great Debate
Should you use an outline? Or not? And why so much acrimony about the debate? Mrs. Wright peers into the problem and maelstrom of surrounding controversy, but I did not ask her whether she outlined this article or wrote it from the seat of her skirts.
http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/127993.html
There are not two types of writers. There are four.
1) Structured, Creative Writers – people whose muses speak to them in the initial organizational stage.
2) Unstructured Creative Writers &ndash...
Instead of a Mission to Mars, Mission to Muslims
I hope this is an April Fool’s Day joke. This cannot be serious. But let us look on the Web of Lies to see the truth of things. Perhaps I should check Snopes first. GO GO GADGET INTERWEB!
President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . . . and math and engineering.” (
July 2, 2010
Free Will and Physics: No Conflict
Good question, but it is based on a false assumption.
The assumption is that the laws of physics describe something other than physics. The laws of physics describe the mechanical causes of an action, how it moved, to what degree, by how many quant...
July 1, 2010
Free Will as a Category of Final Causation
I have spent time I dare not spare pursuing this topic, but hope ever springs eternal from the human breast that I can someday actually explain my position. It is not the disagreements that are based on a correct understanding of what I said that puzzle me, it is disagreements that merely repeat points I had thought were already covered.
But, looking back, I realize journal posts on the Internet can only scrape the surface of what are by their nature very deep topics...
The Experiment that Proves Empiricism is LET'S GET DRUNK!
The only answer I have gotten so far to the question “what experiment proves materialism to be true” is the proposal that brain scans or ingesting alcohol proves that some tentative measure of correlation of some sort that might some day show that material brain conditions influence or affect states of consciousness.
Full answer is here: http://ynglingasaga.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/further-argument-with-john-wright/
This answer is so woefully inadequate that it cannot...
Special Treat! Guest blog by high-powered New York agent, Richard Curtis
http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/127649.html
A re-post of an article by Richard Curtis on when to leave your day job.
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