The Modern Moralist
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Free Will Skeptic. Holy Fool. Ethical Sentimentalist. Rogue MA.
I wonder who feels worse today, Usha Vance or the Jays.
November 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I wonder who feels worse today, Usha Vance or the Jays.
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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My department will be hiring an assistant professor in ethics. I’ll post the PhilJobs ad when we have it. Help me spread the word! #PhilSky
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My department will be hiring an assistant professor in ethics. I’ll post the PhilJobs ad when we have it. Help me spread the word! #PhilSky
The good news is
Revelation 21:5
Acts 3:21
Colossians 1:19-20
Revelation 21:5
Acts 3:21
Colossians 1:19-20
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The good news is
Revelation 21:5
Acts 3:21
Colossians 1:19-20
Revelation 21:5
Acts 3:21
Colossians 1:19-20
Someone just told me they fear for my safety due to how political I am. See, my radical Pyrrhonism
September 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Someone just told me they fear for my safety due to how political I am. See, my radical Pyrrhonism
I love being alive!!!
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I love being alive!!!
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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On objects and persistence, I mix Thales, Heraclitus and Theseus, because it's all water under a different bridge.
August 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
On objects and persistence, I mix Thales, Heraclitus and Theseus, because it's all water under a different bridge.
I was going to buy a new book case, but I shelved the idea.
August 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I was going to buy a new book case, but I shelved the idea.
Interviewer: "Are you interested in the job?"
Me: "I'd kill for that job."
Interviewer: "...for the Lecturer on Peace and Conflict Studies?"
Me: "Well, the conflict part."
Me: "I'd kill for that job."
Interviewer: "...for the Lecturer on Peace and Conflict Studies?"
Me: "Well, the conflict part."
August 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Interviewer: "Are you interested in the job?"
Me: "I'd kill for that job."
Interviewer: "...for the Lecturer on Peace and Conflict Studies?"
Me: "Well, the conflict part."
Me: "I'd kill for that job."
Interviewer: "...for the Lecturer on Peace and Conflict Studies?"
Me: "Well, the conflict part."
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The real issue for the oppressor is not your tone or language but that you dare to have a voice at all
August 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The real issue for the oppressor is not your tone or language but that you dare to have a voice at all
Reading Voltaire's *Candide*. Things were simple and clean back then. Today's media is filled with political and anti-religious bias. Voltaire shows us how to engage in upbuilding, Christian literature fit for Focus on the Family without resorting to lewdness or violence.
July 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reading Voltaire's *Candide*. Things were simple and clean back then. Today's media is filled with political and anti-religious bias. Voltaire shows us how to engage in upbuilding, Christian literature fit for Focus on the Family without resorting to lewdness or violence.
I'll be posting Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles relevant to our current situation. #1: plato.stanford.edu/entries/dehu...
Dehumanization (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
July 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'll be posting Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles relevant to our current situation. #1: plato.stanford.edu/entries/dehu...
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They say "dress for the job you want", but I post like I have the job prospects I have.
July 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
They say "dress for the job you want", but I post like I have the job prospects I have.
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The White House on Carney:
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
June 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The White House on Carney:
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
Is there any hope left for me?
June 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Is there any hope left for me?
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Heartbroken
June 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Heartbroken
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When planning your next vacation here are some good tips on avoiding ICE, the US Marines, having your phone seized and illegal detention.
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
When planning your next vacation here are some good tips on avoiding ICE, the US Marines, having your phone seized and illegal detention.
#EffectiveAltruism question. What is, for my (basically non-existent) money, what is the most good I can do? Is #ShrimpWelfare the future?
June 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
#EffectiveAltruism question. What is, for my (basically non-existent) money, what is the most good I can do? Is #ShrimpWelfare the future?
Damn. I tried feeling better today. I tried.
June 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Damn. I tried feeling better today. I tried.