Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Your warning about the dangerous jihadi phenomenon reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother last night. I told her I wanted to visit Iran. She was quite alarmed. “Don’t go there! It’s full of Shi…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, your response might be appropriate to someone who said that the Qur’an text was deliberately composed to be read nonliterally. But that’s not Ahmed’s view. Ahmed’s view (or the view he attribu…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I have yet to read Shahab Ahmed’s book. It’s on a long “to-read” list. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Those “Drowned Out” Zionists by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I think there’s a presumption in favor of a literal reading based on what the text itself says, repeatedly, about its own aims and methods. The Qur’an announces itself as divine guidance, more or less directly …
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Not-so-funny animals
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 12/14/25 For a month now, we’ve all been like, “Who or what is the Ghost Cat?…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Guns (not in Andy Capp, that’s knifecrime territory)
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Andy Capp, 12/13/25 Hartlepool is part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, a conurbation of 700,000 people in…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIb: A Phalanx By Any Other Name
This is the second half of the third part of our four-part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, Intermission, IVa, IVb) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we discussed the development of hoplite warfare through the Archaic period (c. 750-480). Our evidence for…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Unsettling Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 12/12/25 Mr. Dithers is no doubt all too well acquainted with Dagwood’s relationship with food, so he’s…
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(QC RSS) QC Rerun Time 2025 #5
Aw, I kinda like the art in this one! It took literally over a decade for me to get to the point where looking at my own drawings didn’t make me want to gag, so it’s super wild to see these older comics and think “actually my art had some good points…
Got any book recommendations?