Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Demonology

  • AI and Demons

    You may remember our 'demonic' discussion from last summer. See  Reading Now: Demonic Foes. The comment thread runs to 61 entries, some of them excellent. Bro Joe now wants us to read: Satanic AI: ChatGPT gives instructions. Another topic we ought to explore is the possibility of demonic possession of AI systems.  According to Richard…

  • The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet

    I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…

  • The Holocaust Argument for God’s Existence

    Top o' the Stack. Is there an adequate naturalistic explanation for the unspeakable depth and depravity of moral evil? If not, what might we reasonably conclude? Can one plausibly argue from the depth and depravity of moral evil to the existence of God?   ………………… Yesterday I ordered a book on Amazon and it arrived today.…

  • Dreher on the Demonic

    Here. Demonic forces are afoot as we slide into the abyss.