Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reality. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

“Settling”

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     Consider the following observation: Sexual double standards make it so that the woman in a marriage is more often settling for a man l...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Uncorrectable

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WARNING! The following piece will contain a common profanity. For today, I found that profanity unavoidable. Read on at your own risk....
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

“Critical Thinking”

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     You cannot hold a pistol to the head of the Tao. -- C. S. Lewis      A young woman I met recently said she intended to homeschool he...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

On Weird Fiction

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     No, I’m not thinking of Weird Tales, which, as far as I know, has ceased publication. I’m thinking of really strange stuff: the sort ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

“Down With Facts!”

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     The facts of life are conservative – Margaret Thatcher      A beautiful theory, killed by a nasty, ugly little fact. – Thomas Huxley ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Unrealism

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     This one is “off the top of my head,” so expect more extreme lunacy than usual. (Yes, I know that’s asking a lot.)      Every now an...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Quickies: Predictions Versus Reality

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     I’ve just viewed the video embedded above for the first time. It’s largely a compilation of predictions of doom by left-leaning comme...
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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Pretenses To Ignorance

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     On many an occasion when someone says “I don’t know why...” or “I’m not sure why...” and concludes with some unpleasant observation, it...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

Racialism Begets Realism

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     Courtesy of InstaPundit, we have this remarkable racialist rant from a major politician in a nation whose black government has decided...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Infinities, Eternities, And Free Will: A Belated Rumination

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     Dystopic’s recent piece on fate has caused me to revisit several questions that have baffled theologians and philosophers for millenni...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Simulation Writ Really, Really Large

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     “We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

A Summation

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     Dystopic has been doing excellent work for quite some time, but his most recent piece is a Jeremiad, a stunning summation of the tact...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Realism

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     There’s a substantial, threatening deficit of realism among our politically engaged. If you’ve been listening to the chatter or reading...
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