Category Archives: Reflections

On the Unknown Limits

Posted on 2008/07/08 by ngilmour

I’ve been reading Thomas Aquinas for the last few days, and I continue to be impressed.? I read his Compendium for comps, and now, the first leg of the Summa completed, I still think that his philosophy is without match … Continue reading →

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Evolution and ID: Some categorical confusions

Posted on 2008/05/24 by ngilmour

This little essay is a cross-post from Conservative Reformed Mafia. Metaphysics and Epistemology Folks who recognize these words will doubtless first think of academic philosophy rather than academic biology, but the big questions (as I see them) at play in … Continue reading →

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Tech Stupidity

Posted on 2008/02/04 by ngilmour

Just a quick story. Last night I finally got around to installing our printer’s drivers on our reconstituted computer.? I installed once, unsuccessfully, and Micah woke up, so I had to put him back to bed.? I uninstalled and reinstalled, … Continue reading →

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The Conventions of Psalms

Posted on 2008/01/24 by ngilmour

I’ve been thinking of late about claims that education is or is not a moral exercise.? My readers should not be surprised that I’ve always thought of teaching as shot through with morality.? Today’s lecture, on its face far from … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Bobby Fischer

Posted on 2008/01/23 by ngilmour

I know Heath Ledger has already bumped the chess giant as the celebrity death of the week, but I’m just now getting my head around the fact that the greatest American chess player of all time is dead.? I’m conflicted … Continue reading →

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Vocation and Job

Posted on 2008/01/16 by ngilmour

Several things make me think about work lately. On one hand, my formal schedule is looser this school year than it’s been since I started college in 1995. UGA only expects me to be in a particular place at a … Continue reading →

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Open Road and No Gasoline

Posted on 2007/12/20 by ngilmour

I had great plans for the week between my last paper’s being due and our Christmas trip.? I was going to read ten plays.? I was going to revise a paper for publication.? I was going to do all sorts … Continue reading →

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Grow Up

Posted on 2007/12/01 by ngilmour

I was thinking about the bad rhetorical moves to which online discussions sometimes resort today. Among them are the passive-aggressive-reflexive straw man (e.g. “You just think that all of us pacifists are wimps, so you probably wouldn’t listen to me … Continue reading →

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Nihil sub sole novum

Posted on 2006/09/27 by ngilmour

There is nothing new under the sun. But you haven’t been around that long, cynic. There is nothing new under the sun. But you haven’t seen nearly as much, traditionalist. There is nothing new under the sun. But you stand … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche and Conservative Movement

Posted on 2006/07/01 by ngilmour

Sometimes a look back few hundred years or so helps one’s perspective. I gained an appreciation for the socially concrete roots of the English word “worship” from reading Malory, and I sorted out the words fortune, fate, and fidelity reading … Continue reading →

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Dialectics of Suspicion

Posted on 2005/11/11 by ngilmour

I’m finally starting to formulate a vocabulary to name the difficulties I have with new historical and other “hermeneutics of suspicion”-style treatments of Christianity. It’s not that there’s critique simpliciter–theologians and pastors critique parts of Christian thought and practice all … Continue reading →

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More diapers, less despair

Posted on 2005/04/05 by ngilmour

Four more weeks. Then the house will be closed, Mary will be back to work, my term at Emmanuel College will be over, Mom will have arrived from Indiana, and I’ll be in the process of setting up a new … Continue reading →

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Actually going to write one

Posted on 2005/03/26 by ngilmour

Don’t worry–there’ll be more pictures to come, but I’m here alone in the public library, don’t feel like grading any more, and have four hours of solitude to overcome. So I’ll write on my blog! Micah is now nineteen days … Continue reading →

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Missing Weekdays Already

Posted on 2004/09/05 by ngilmour

Well, I had to take the dog to the groomers’ Friday morning, so I didn’t take my standard time to make an entry on the blog. So it goes. I probably won’t post tomorrow either, seeing as it’s Labor Day … Continue reading →

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