Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

I seek an end to politics, whether it is conducted with ballots or bullets. Politics is a battlefield in which not only are there winners and losers but there is a net loss, as well. Politics is a pack of hyenas trying to gulp down as much meat from a kill as possible before everyone [...]

Consider the frequent charge made by self-proclaimed moralists that wealthy individuals do not “deserve” or “really own” their wealth because they owe it to the existence of society. While this is true enough, the moralists forget that “society,” too, owes its prosperity to the contributions of the wealthy. We can just as easily allege that [...]

One may have noticed that we are never shown on television images of everyday life in the “evil” nations, nor read about them in mainstream publications. The reason is that doing so may convert floating abstractions into concrete living and breathing and useful people, exotic locations, and obvious civilizations, the sight of which may cause [...]

So as you shiver in the cold and the dark, Look into the fire and see in its spark – My eye Watching over you. As you walk in the wind’s whistling claws, Listen past the howling of the wolf’s jaws. My song Comes to you. And when you’re lost in the trackless snow, Look [...]

Mises writes: Negation, the notion of the absence or nonexistence of something or of the denial of a proposition, is conceivable to the human mind. But the notion of an absolute negation of everything, the representation of an absolute nothing, is beyond man’s comprehension. The Lord, teaches the Bible, created the world out of nothing; [...]

Just Thomist has his own opinion to the effect that as wayfarers we know God through creatures but love Him in Himself. Therefore, the will is a higher faculty than the intellect. But in heaven we will both know and love God as He is in Himself. Therefore… the will is as noble as the [...]

I finally decided to heed the advice of some of the respondents to my article on Star Trek and bought Firefly. Man, what a show! And they canceled it after only 9 episodes? Are they out of their minds? This is the most entertaining, well-made, and fun sci-fi series with razor-sharp dialog I have ever [...]

Multiple Attributes Disproofs of the Existence of God (2) Omniscience and Immutability (3) Omniscience, Eternity, and Time 2. Omniscience and Immutabilityby Norman Kretzmann 3. Omniscience, Eternity, and Timeby Anthony Kenny Here we come back to the problem of whether an immutable God knows what time it is. God must know that it is now t1 [...]

There is first the enemy of the body: entropy. Things unwind, wear and tear, break, grow old and die, and in general go from order to disorder. This force of “death and decay,” as I put it here, is ever-present and impersonal to match the fact that bodies cannot be persons. Then there are enemies [...]

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