Monthly Archives: September 2008
Astronauts without Planets
Nathan Richardson In a previous post (Restored Doctrines and Free Will), I explained that the Lord apparently revealed the doctrine that intelligence has always existed in order to help us understand how it is possible that we have agency. Because … Continue reading
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Gravity Made It Happen
Jeffrey Thayne Physicists have noticed that things accelerate at a particular rate when falling towards the earth. After extensive observation, they discovered that the acceleration of falling objects could be generalized and approximated by this particular mathematical equation: M represents … Continue reading
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A Gift that Was Never Given?
Nathan Richardson In a previous post, “Restored Doctrines and Free Will,” I explained that Heavenly Father revealed the doctrine of “intelligences” in order to help us understand how created beings can have free will and thus personal accountability. Through the … Continue reading
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Brief Reflections on Secularism
Jeffrey Thayne There are many different uses of the term secular. Gawain Wells and Wesley Burr, for example, explain that “secularism is the belief that the answers to life are found through rational means—through the concrete, observable, and practical world … Continue reading
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Announcement: 17 September 2008
School has started, and reading assignments have piled up. This is good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ll have many new ideas to write about as I study my course material. The bad news is that … Continue reading
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Legos Make Better Societies
Nathan Richardson In a previous post, I discussed that some people define the fundamental unit of society as the individual, while others define it as the state. The proclamation on the family, however, declares that we should consider “the family … Continue reading
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The Restoration of All Things
Jeffrey Thayne Many of us compartmentalize our lives in a way that would seem strange to scholars of past centuries. We talk about our religious lives and our academic lives as though they were two separate things, divided in a … Continue reading
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A Family of One
Nathan Richardson In a previous post, The Building Block of Societies, I asked the question, “What is the basic unit of society?” I then reviewed three possible answers, two from worldly philosophies, and one from modern prophets. Individualism would answer, … Continue reading
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The Building Block of Societies
Nathan Richardson I have a thought to share related to government and legal philosophy. First, though, there is a caveat. I’m not a political science major, and I know there are a lot of complexities that I haven’t fully learned … Continue reading
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Meaningful Antecedents
Jeffrey Thayne Although agency and indeterminism are often equated in popular rhetoric, the two philosophical concepts are very different things. Indeterminism, as Williams defines it, is the philosophy that events have no antecedents, or in other words, that they are … Continue reading
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Needed or Enough?
Jeffrey Thayne This post may seem a little basic, but I believe that there are two terms that, if understood properly, may greatly help us understand how the doctrines of the Restoration may compare with the philosophies of the world. … Continue reading
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