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A Walk That Took Longer Than Expected
Okay, something a little different. I was talking with my spouse the other evening, and she pointed out, kindly, but accurately, that when I talk philosophy, I sometimes do it from a place not everyone can easily enter. I asked… Continue reading
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Between Stone and Word: Mithraism and Early Christianity in Contrast
Living in the Pacific Northwest, where old forests persist beneath layers of newer growth, I find it difficult not to think historically. Belief systems, like landscapes, are rarely erased; they are built over. Mithraism and early Christianity emerged from overlapping… Continue reading
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A Narrative Response to “The Achilles Heel of Atheist Resurrection Hypotheses”
A YouTube video by Nathan Boseman on The Epitome Last year, I drove home through a steady Seattle‑style drizzle, made coffee that tasted like wet cedar, and pressed play on Nathan Boseman’s “The Achilles Heel of Atheist Resurrection Hypotheses” on… Continue reading
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Apatheism, or: The Quiet Art of Not Caring Who Runs the Cosmos
I learned the word apatheism on a rainy afternoon a couple of years ago that felt aggressively local. Americano cooling. Mountains obscured by cloud (standard February). Someone at the table was arguing about God with the same intensity people usually… Continue reading
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Breaking Barriers, Revisited
Why Women Hesitate in STEM and What Actually Brings Them InBreaking Barriers: Exploring Women’s Reluctance in STEM Careers This piece is a follow‑up to our ongoing series, Breaking Barriers: Women in STEM. Rather than celebrating success stories alone, I want… Continue reading
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Radiocarbon, Tree Rings, and the Misread Story
Why Tropical Wood Doesn’t Undermine 14C Dating Let’s start where the headlines left a lot of people: confused. A widely circulated Phys.org piece reported that radiocarbon measurements are extending lifespan records for flowering trees, sometimes by centuries, especially in species… Continue reading
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The National ID Idea and America’s Ongoing War with Math
I read this question on Threads while sipping a too-hot coffee in a too-cold morning: “Wouldn’t a national ID solve the voting issue?” The phrasing hung in my notifications like a damp sock on a line, not offensive, just odd… Continue reading
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Naming the Skeptic’s Knot
Watching Agrippa’s Trilemma from a PNW Couch I was halfway through @notsoErudite’s “Another BRUTAL Christian Nationalism Debate” when the conversation detoured into Agrippa’s Trilemma. I live where ferry decks still double as seminar rooms, so I paused the video, grabbed… Continue reading
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Asherah’s Tree and Israel’s Lamp
A Field‑Trained Reader’s Essay on Continuity, Reform, and Memory I recently read three more pieces on Asherah, the Caananite deity related to Yahweh, with a specific hope: if I set the iconography next to the texts and the archaeology, maybe… Continue reading
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Objective Functions, Catastrophic Options
I was standing in line at Zeitgeist, rain ticking the window, when a Threads post scrolled past: “In 95% of war‑game scenarios, leading AIs used nukes at least once. None chose negotiation or surrender.” I felt the familiar click. This… Continue reading
