Monthly Archives: August 2020

Factious Inner Rings of Mutually Joyful Enthusiasm Requiring Correction

Posted on August 30, 2020 by Awry Stoic

How to Think is in essence a treatise on Screwtape letter XXIV and the essay “The Inner Ring” by C. S. Lewis. Continue reading →

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Subjective Objectivity: Guilt, Shame, and Neurology in Insomnia and Inception

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Awry Stoic

Insomnia[0] and Inception[1] have two opposite viewpoints. One says that guilt is objective and must be paid for with blood. The other says that guilt feelings are subjective and need to be fixed with psychotherapy. In Inception, Cobb is haunted … Continue reading →

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Bouwsma’s Calvin

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Awry Stoic

“for in this matter nothing is more unbalanced than absolute balance.” Continue reading →

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Castrating the Psalms

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Awry Stoic

Complaining is morally indifferent without an object. If the expression of pain, such as complaining, is removed from the psalms, they are nullified. If Complaining is viewed as always wrong, a pile of absurdities accumulates. If complaining were wrong, then … Continue reading →

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