The Philosophical Muser

Using Philosophical and Economic analysis to consider big questions, world issues and matters of everyday life!

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Perseverance, Character & Hope

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  Every day one can read a Bible passage, or even a line, and continually uncover profound ways it can be transformative for any individual....
Thursday, 26 June 2025

Be Wary Of The Fashionable Outcry

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  Published earlier on Network Norfolk - sharing here too: Here is a brilliant passage from C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters that speaks as m...
Wednesday, 25 June 2025

You Were Not Harmed By The Distant Past

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  Many people seem to be filled with discord about events and circumstances in history that happened long before they were born. Perhaps the...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Rethinking the LGBTQ ‘Community’

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The LGBTQ acronym is not only careless in falsely imputing a community to one that barely exists*, it’s even stranger because when you break...
Monday, 23 June 2025

The Thing We Have Most in Common

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  We have a sloppy tendency to lump people into groups: white people, black people, gay, straight, immigrants, indigenous people, and so for...
Sunday, 22 June 2025

What God Knows

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  Even though I can’t even know 0.000001% of 1% of what it’s like to be God, I do get intrigued sometimes by peculiarities understood throug...
Thursday, 19 June 2025

The Negativity Threshold

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  In the book Getting The Love You Want , by clinical therapists Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly, the authors suggest that marriages can ...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Efficient Use Of Knowledge

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It would be remiss here if we didn't elaborate on yesterday’s blog post The inefficiency Trap and tailor the content to one of the most...
Monday, 16 June 2025

The Inefficiency Trap

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  There's a classic Econ 101 brainteaser often posed in introductory economics courses (I think I saw it first in Steve Landsburg's ...
Wednesday, 11 June 2025

It Would Be Stranger If The Bible Is False

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  When you look at everything contained in the Bible that purports to show the truth of God – the prophecies, the miracles, the testimonies,...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Theistic Evolutionist: An Extraneous Epithet

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I personally don't like the term Theistic Evolutionist - it's a term that YECs felt needed to be perpetuated to describe people who,...
Monday, 9 June 2025

Gospel Seed Adventure

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I like writing things that can be shared again and again when the situation arises - a go-to article for 'You think X? Well, here’s Y....
Thursday, 5 June 2025

The Often Overlooked Cheat of Propaganda

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  The true essence of propaganda is designed, not only to influence an individual’s thoughts and beliefs directly, but also to shape their p...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Mind The Gap

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  The so-called “God of the gaps” critique is a classic straw man. Virtually no serious Christian thinker ever claimed, “We have a gap in ou...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Between The Cheats

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  I ran into this very interesting article - The Different Types of Infidelity Which Make Men and Women Most Upset . 64,000 people in the st...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Let's Face It: Atheism Isn't Very Interesting Anymore

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Atheism, like many other beliefs, undergoes social and cultural selection pressure in a way that resembles biological evolution. If atheism ...
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This is the Blog of James Knight - a keen philosophical commentator on many subjects. My primary areas of interest are: philosophy, economics, theology, politics, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, psychology, history, the arts and social commentary. I also contribute articles to the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economics Affairs. Hope you enjoy this blog! Always happy to hear from old friends and new! Email:j.knight423@btinternet.com
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