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How did Joe Biden achieve his current net worth on a $197k/year salary? I'm repeating it because nobody has ever answered it. Joe Biden is worth about $10 million. In 2017 when he finished his stint as VP, he made $11.1 million in book deals and speaking gigs. That, and the increasing value of the ...

I understand from a game theory perspective why the Democrats would nominate Biden. But that doesn't mean he's the most likely to beat Trump. I'd like more insight into this, if you will. Doesn't game theory dictate that you choose the candidate most likely to beat Trump? I would say correct strate...

I also read a lot of C.S. Lewis long ago. His arguments didn't seem airtight but some of them did seem to raise some real issues. My memory is also that in Mere Christianity Lewis tried to derive the existence of God from the objectivity of morality. That's almost the opposite of what Peterson seem...

The second book that really pissed me off was Atheism: The Case Against God. I didn’t want to be an atheist. But damn; the logic in that book was clear and convincing. It was like waking up from a long, strange dream and taking an ice-cold shower. I asked for the truth, and I found it. It wasn’t pl...

Yeah, I did once get through The Silmarillion . I think I might even have re-read a few parts. I guess it's a great example of its kind of thing, but it's not really my kind of thing. It kind of undermines The Lord of the Rings to find that Sauron and his ring and all the heroes are only leftovers ...

My hope that it might be possible to understand evil as something like dissonance, only more complicated, is a statement of faith on my part. In my case it's a religious faith. I don't think God would make a world in which good and evil were arbitrary. I think they'd be baked into the way the world...

Lewis criticises the authors for subverting student values and claims that they teach that all statements of value (such as "this waterfall is sublime") are merely statements about the speaker's feelings and say nothing about the object.[3] Such a view, Lewis argues, makes nonsense of value talk. I...

And yet, I was still troubled. How could someone so infused with the written word still be so goddamn stupid? And abruptly, an unexpected quantum leap in a predetermined system governed by stochastic processes, a paradigm-shifting revelation emerged, “He doesn’t actually read! And when he does read...

I think a person has to be a bit slow witted to think only religious people have a bases for morality and make moral decisions Dan thinks non-believers also have the same God-given moral sense believers have, and can be moral and make moral decisions, they just don't realize the source of it. I hav...

As I recall, the conversation on SEN from two months that started this took place on a blog post that was already several days old, and it didn’t get the attention that it perhaps deserved. Here is the link: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2023/11/a-deathbed-coincidence.html If you’ll indu...