What is Going on in my Head?

The Status of my Current Writings and Thoughts

Man, I have been absolutely swamped with work and life. On top of that I have been completely scatter brained! I have so many ideas swirling around in my head and I want to write about all of them!

I would like to get some material out for you guys sometime soon, but in the meantime I would like to give a status update and list off some of the topics that have been bouncing around in my head. If I never get around to writing these topics, I'd like to at least list them here. In the meantime I would love to get some initial thoughts on these topics from you guys! Maybe we can discuss them in the comments (:

Update on the Homosexuality posts:

I'm going to be honest, I have mostly lost interest in writing about this topic. I'd like to finish it, but the writing has turned into a chore for me. So, for the time being, I think I will shelve it until I regain the motivation to complete it.

Current Project Update:

I am currently writing a lengthy post that seeks to properly defining theism, atheism, and agnosticism, and then determines who has the burden of proof. This has been a topic that has come up numerous times for me when talking to atheists. From these conversations it has become very clear to me that atheists have no understanding of basic epistemology and I therefore feel the need to write a post on the topic so that things are made clear. In this post I give a brief introduction to propositional logic and epistemology (specifically justification, warrant, knowledge, and a few other minor topics). Along with this, I address other terms people like to identify as (e.g., hard atheist, soft atheist, antitheist, etc), and try to put them into a proper framework so that I can formally and clearly address the question of who has the burden of proof. Hint: everyone except for the agnostic! But the agnostic isn't completely off the hook (;

I finally address objections from people such as Anthony Flew and Ayn Rand.

I hope to finish this post soon. (:

Other Topics Bouncing Around in my Head:

Here is a list of the current thoughts in my head that I’d possible write about. I have a poll at the end and I encourage you discuss them in the comments or as by quotes (:

A Paradox of Gun rights?

It seems to me that if you have a moral (high trust) society the government is right to trust it's citizens with more gun (armament) rights. As an extreme, a utopian society where everyone is perfectly moral, the government could trust its citizens with any weapon, including nuclear WMDs. But since this type of society doesn't exist nor will it ever, the government is well in its rational rights to restrict its citizens from owning nuclear WMDs, and probably lesser destructive weapons.

Now, on another extreme, suppose that every citizen is violently evil (no trust) (i.e., constantly seeking to murder as many people as possible). In this case, I think the government may be in its right to restrict all forms of weapons. Again, this isn't a real scenario, so suppose that the general evil in this society is lesser, and it is to the point where there are some moderately moral people. Perhaps we can call this an immoral (low trust) society. In this situation, I believe that the government is justified in allowing its citizens to own guns, but possibly with heavily restricted access and limitations.

Following this there seems to be a bit of a paradox. In a moral (high trust) society the government is well justified in granting it's citizens with a significant, but appropriate (whatever that is), amount of freedoms with regard to ownership and use of weapons. However, there doesn't seem to be much of a need for them when it comes to domestic self-defense as you are in a very moral, high trust society. On the other hand, the government is well justified in heavily restricting access to weapons when society is evil and of low trust. However, there is greater need for weapons to defend yourself from domestic threats.

If I were to write this post, I'd like to investigate this "paradox" and firstly determine if there is a paradox or not. Next, I'd like to investigate if the government is ever justified in the regulation of ownership of weapons, and if so, to what degree.

I'd like to note that I am a gun owner myself (own several) and really do enjoy the 2nd amendment, but there are limitations to its applicability that need to be seriously considered.

Most Pro-lifers are wrong on Ectopic Pregnancies

Many pro-lifers today are willing to accept the termination of ectopic pregnancies by saying that the operation isn't an abortion. But is that the case, and is this view logically consistent? Even if we accept that an ectopic pregnancy is currently nonviable according to current medical technology, that does not mean that there isn't a young life that needs to be considered. After all, life does begin at conception. In this writing I'd like to discuss this topic and establish a logically consistent view of ectopic pregnancies. In this post I would argue that the child that implanted in the wrong location (ectopic) is still a life worthy of preserving. I further argue that a doctor is morally obligated to attempt to transplant this life to the proper location in the uterus. Unfortunately, at this time there are no known procedures for doing this. However, there also seems to be no attempt at doing this or seeking out methods for doing so. Overall, I'd like to investigate this matter, including the state of the art in medical practices with regard to this situation and address the moral concerns in this situation from the pro-life perspective.

"My name is Theseus and my pronouns are they/them"

In this post three major topics come colliding together: Theology, mind-body dualism, and transsexualism. This will be a doozy!

Even though it is currently not possible to change all of the biological/physical sex characteristics of a person with current technology, it may be possible in the future as there is nothing that logically prohibits this, as far as I am aware. Given this, it seems that transsexualism is possible, a man can become a women, and the gender ideology is correct.

In this post I want to argue that even if you were to change every physical part of the human body, like the ship of Theseus, you cannot actually change from a boy to a girl, and vice versa. In this post I will investigate how the body and the mind/soul interact, and how the soul must have something akin to sex that directly correlates to the human body's sex at birth and becomes immutable. I currently believe that the Christian perspective with regard to mind/body dualism has the necessary insights into this matter and that physicalists (atheists) must accept transsexualism as true. I also think that those who believe in reincarnation will struggle with this issue. I'm really not in the position to elaborate on this without writing the whole post, but I think it will be an insightful and timely investigation.

You Sow what you Reap: Christianity and the Duties of Government's

I'm not sure what the scope of this post will be. I don't really want to write a whole post arguing for Christian nationalism, but I think the point that I want to make is that Christians need to be more involved in government and if they aren't our society will fall apart.

Why don't we blow up the drugs?

This post will be more on the topic of foreign policy and the war on drugs. I recently made a brief note on this and I would like to elaborate on it more.

Voting reform

I would like to write on who should be allowed to vote and the means by which we can properly restrict the correct people from voting. I'd also suggest mechanisms that could result in better candidates for the voting class to choose from.

Warranted State Estimation

This will be a more technical post where I introduce state estimation from control theory (mathematics) and relate it to concepts in epistemology, specifically Alvin Plantinga's warranted belief. I don't suspect that this post will offer any real insights into the mathematical development of state estimators, but I think there may be some interesting observations that could be made.

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