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Back in my element

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Thanks to the encouragement of my friends, the prodding of a very special professor, and some stroke of luck, I’m finally carousing in the hallowed halls of the academy once again.  This is graduate school, though, where you no longer have to concern yourself with bullshit prerequisites like Public Speaking 101 and Watch a Bumbling [...]

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A debate over definitions

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The dreadful debate over definitions.  It seems that when you get right down to it, these are the discussions that people abhor the most, far more than those concerning politics or religion.  Whereas with religion or politics, the difference can usually be distilled into a subjective evaluative judgment, the argument lacks a certain joie de [...]

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Platonism for the masses

Monday, February 4, 2008

After starting college, I slowly became disconnected with the Christian faith that had been an influential part of my life in high school. It wasn’t due to the fact that I fell into the collegiate life of hedonism and simply abandoned all things good and holy. My loss of faith was a gradual [...]

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