Questions – Maverick Philosopher

Too Good to be True?

If heaven is too good to be true, is earth too evil to be real?

You Want Answers . . .

. . . when you are not willing or able to ask questions?

The Difference between Posing and Begging a Question

I found the nifty graphic below over at Flood's place. It is a pithy and pictorial presentation of a point I have been hammering away at online for the last twenty years. Here is a Substack hammer-job. Some say we should give up the fight and let the forces of linguistic decadence obliterate the distinction between posing and begging a question. I am inclined to say that we should fight on against the anti-civilizational forces while well aware that fighting-on may be nothing more than a pointless rear-guard action.

What say you?

Question for ‘Woke’ Punks

Did it occur to you that when you mock nuns, you willy-nilly mock a fair number of lesbians?

She Plagiarized her Acknowledgments?

Said of plagiarist Claudine Gay. I tried to fact-check, but Snopes had nothing on the topic. Takes the cake if true.

A Platonist at Breakfast

Tablemate: These eggs are undercooked!

Platonist: If it won't matter by tomorrow morning, why does it matter now?

Wrong and Right Questions

There are some moderate Muslims, and they can be enlisted in the struggle against the anti-civilizational Joe Biden and the moral (immoral?) retards who support him. Zuhdi Jasser is an example of a moderate Muslim. May peace be upon him and no harm come to him. Here I recount an exchange I had with Jasser.

Jews, Muslims, Science and Technology

Which group has contributed more to science and technology? Jews or Muslims? And why?

Question prompted by this:

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA [Coalition Against Apartheid, apparently].

If the Senses Could Speak

If the senses could speak, they would claim that they alone give access to the truth. Why then should we take seriously the discursive intellect's claim that there is nothing beyond it?

The Religion of Archeological Preservation

If Islam is the religion of peace, then it is also the religion of archeological preservation. Modus tollens or modus ponens?

Images here.

Do You Drive Your Car to Fill Your Tank?

No? Then why do you live to eat?

Knowledge and Belief

If there are truths that we cannot know but only believe, should we deny ourselves those truths because they cannot be known but only believed?

Morally Culpable Political Ignorance

Is there such a thing?

Is Sanders the Socialist morally culpable for being wrong? Or is he merely wrong? Perhaps he is neither. Perhaps he is mad. The mad do the same thing over and over again in the hope that next time it will be different.