Are these still technically weekly reflections since they're on a week of readings? Or no, since they're not happening weekly by any stretch of the imagination?
Quick review on this week's readings:
Oct 14 The Wealth of Nations by Smith: 3/5 "It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time." (But in reverse.)
Oct 15 Amerigo Vespucci's Account: 3/5 So much discovering America lately.
Oct 16 Hippocrates' Oath and Law: 3/5 First, misattribute historical quotes.
Oct 17 Religio Medici by Browne: 0/5 "You're not making philosophy better! You're just making Christianity worse!"
Oct 18 Poems by Shelly: 2/5 Zzzzzzzzz.
Oct 19 "On the Realities of Imagination" by Hunt: 4/5 This is the kind of practical, rational philosophy I wish more low level courses focused on.
Oct 20 The Odyssey by Homer: 3/5 Doing this challenge got me to finally swapping the first y for an e in Odyssey.
Average: 2.57 It's all Browne's fault.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
This week is as good a place as any to talk about something that I find odd about a lot of the 15MAD readings on Christianity (and, I guess, Christian apologetics in general). I was fairly religious as a kid, and something that a bunch of pastors, priests, Sunday school teachers, etc. all said to me was that you can't prove Christianity. It's inherently unprovable at best, illogical at worst. And that was the point. If you didn't need faith to believe, it wouldn't be a big deal. I think that's a reasonable enough point of view (if you're going to accept things like rib-women, believing in an omnipresent, unknowable being is pretty easy). But a lot of these authors are dead set on convincing you that, of course, Christianity makes perfect sense. I don't know if I just went to very liberal churches growing up or what.
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