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There are a few of Heinlein’s later, post Starship Troopers works that I still sortof like. To a lesser extent these include Friday for the Whelan cover (and an OK story), and Number of the Beast convincing me to give John Carter and the Lensmen a try. Outside of that, the only two post-Troopers works worthy of shelf space are Orphans of the Sky – technically written earlier and “fixed up” – and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress]. The last…
Among the many things discussed in the recent, fantastic video on the Architecture of Belief I mentioned yesterday [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/02/stefan-and-jordan-peterson.html]with Stefan Molyneux and the psychologist Jordan Peterson, were issues of mindset, finding purpose, and the power of taking responsibility. Now, I’d listened to Colin Flaherty’s podcast “White Girl Bleed a Lot” for quite some time and highly recommend it, though I’ve cut down a lot. No, not because it’s false – he…
I’ve made no secret that I’m a huge fan of Stefan Molyneux and his philosophy podcasts / videocasts. The various “truth about” series have been thoroughly documented, especially the ones about Trump, and his interviews have been fantastic. An athiest, he has nevertheless, as Vox Day put it, given some of the best Christian sermons one can hear. This is a long conversation – and well worth every single minute. It delves into myth, mindset, self talk, the need for the ineffable and the subjective…
The Didact takes a look at one of the heresies that nearly tore apart the church and western civilization. One that bears more than a few similarities to today [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-distant-mirror-of-heresy.html]. It came to a very sobering end: > The Cathar Heresy ended with the massacre of thousands of followers of their pseudo-religion and the burning alive of over 200 Cathar prefects. It resulted in the establishment of the Inquisition, a deeply maligned and thoroug…