Akrasia Anonymous
“Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.” Rom. 7:20 (NIV) I attended my first AA meeting in 1986. Roughly a third of my days since...
View ArticleSpirit of My Universe
In my continuing quest to find a power greater than myself who can aid me in aleviating my severe akrasia I have had a recent insight into the spiritual domain that might work. Since the greatest...
View ArticleCan revelation be induced?
I can’t create my own god any more than I can create my own language. If I posit the existence of a god, I can just as easily posit its non-existence, therefore the authority that I would want it to...
View ArticleSartwell’s Faith-Based Atheism
Sartwell in (Faith-Based Atheism) provides a better exposition of what I was getting at in my post Gloating over the Death of God. He points out, rightly, that the choice for atheism is not perfectly...
View ArticleGloating over the death of God
The first real philosopher I ever read was Bertrand Russell. And I didn’t read him for his philosophy; I read his classic atheist treatise Why I am Not a Christian. I was still in high school, and a...
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