Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

Daily Beast The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently backpedaled on a key tenet of Mormon theology: that after death, righteous Mormons will become gods, with the capacity to create planets of their own. But while press coverage of the … Continue reading →

The Dish In the June 19 edition there’s a long story of a man and his journey. There is much fluidity and much striving for definition. What is a definition in our cultural context? Are these sexual-identity platonists? Fascinating. NYT … Continue reading →

Brain Pickings on Stay by Hecht, this is a long and meaty piece HT The Dish with video the video link Article in the national review on an English woman who travels to Zurich for her suicide. Another book review on Stay … Continue reading →

Jesus Creed

NYT We anxiously avoid casting moral judgment. Because with absolute truths elusive, what claims do we have to insist that our moral positions are better than those of someone from a different nation or culture? Consider the challenge we might … Continue reading →

The Dish What strikes me about the question and the theoried answers is how the premise behind the answers are leading. “Why” is assumed to be answered by a Darwinian motivation, survival. The stripes must (we assume) contribute to their … Continue reading →

NYT can be a mathematician without a belief in the metaphysical existence of numbers

NYT Magazine

One of my favorite links written in 1986 about an event in 1963 but as fresh today as it was then.