Category: Photographs
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Alligator Alcatraz
Leftist environmentalists are bringing suit to block the construction of a detention center for illegal aliens in the heart of the Everglades. This should interest Sarasota resident and fellow philosopher Elliott Ruffin Crozat who paid me a visit over the last three days. You can imagine the 'orgy' of philosophizing that took place, both peripatetically…
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Notes on R. C. Sproul, Does God Exist?
Trudy the Calvinist gave me a reading assignment. Herewith a first batch of comments for her and your delectation, discussion, and (presumably inevitable) disagreement. In Chapter One, "The Case for God," Sproul distinguishes between four approaches in apologetics: fideism, evidentialism, presuppositionalism, and "the classical school" (4) He comes out against the first three and nails…
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Western Superstitions: Hieroglyphic Canyon Hike out of Cloudview Trailhead
MavPhil commenter Trudy Vandermolen and her husband Ken from Michigan paid me a visit yesterday. It's becoming an annual thing. Next year: either the Garden Valley Loop out of the First Water Trailhead or Fremont Saddle out of Peralta. Here are a couple of shots of me and Trudy from the hike I took them…
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At the San Gabriel Mission
Catacomb Joe and I grew up near the San Gabriel Mission. He sends the following as a visual comment on a couple of recent entries:
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Arizona Sunset, New Year’s Eve, 2022
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The Peripatetic Zetetic
On the Continental Divide trail near Abiquiu, New Mexico, August 2015.
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Superstition Wilderness: Garden Valley Loop out of First Water Trailhead
The boys were a little anxious but acquitted themselves well on this five and a half mile loop through characteristically rugged Superstition terrain except for the easy walk through Garden Valley itself. The guide books say it takes four and a half hours. It took the old men a bit longer. We left at 6:36…
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Easter Monday Local Ramble
Out the front door, plenty of elevation gain and loss. Hike much, stay sane. The boys acquitted themselves well. Photo credit: Dennis M.
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Your Vehicle
Keep it roadworthy. But it's only a vehicle. And life's only a road. And don't forget to take it easy. We're going to the end of the line.
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Sonoran Spring
Photo credit: Wifey
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Treasure Loop, Western Superstitions, 5 April 2022
Lost Dutchman State Park with the Goldfield Mountains to the West behind me. Double left-click for close-up. Photo credit: Dennis Murray.
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University of Dayton Philosophy Department Circa 1980
Amazing what one can dredge up from the vasty deeps of cyberspace!
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The Philosopher’s Consolation: The Owl of Minerva Spreads its Wings at Dusk
It may be too late to make America great again. Where is the glory that was Rome? How Nations Slip from Greatness to Obscurity
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Fremont Saddle, Western Superstitions. Weaver’s Needle
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View from a Side Car
We are heading east on U.S. 60 in the direction of Superior, AZ. Picketpost Mountain looms on the horizon. Mike Valle is driving the motorcycle; your humble correspondent rides shotgun.