Caffeine & Philosophy

It’s Time to Consider Keeping Women Out Of Government

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:February 3, 2021
Post category:Gender People Politics
Post comments:12 Comments

How's that for a controversial headline? To be totally honest, keeping women out of politics -- because they are women -- is not the sort of thing I would have…

Fourth Generation War in Action

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:January 28, 2021
Post category:Culture War
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I'll try to keep this short, because I don't have much to offer as far as details go, regarding the GameStop stock ambush. Tim Pool, the Podcast of the Lotus…

Review: Fire In the Dark

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:January 23, 2021
Post category:Religion Reviews
Post comments:1 Comment

I've never been religious [...] none of it ever stuck. But I'll tell you, in the last three, four, five years, I am most open towards some sort of spiritual…

Condemning Disavowal

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:January 17, 2021
Post category:Culture Free Speech
Post comments:1 Comment

"I disavow" has become almost a joke these days. In internet circles -- and YouTube in particular -- sometimes the "I" is dropped and the speaker simply says "disavow," after…

Christian Pacifism Grows Over Time

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:January 10, 2021
Post category:Religion War
Post comments:7 Comments

Earlier today, John Lovell of the Warrior-Poet Society put out a short video on Instagram where he said: If the mob silences you and you hide your morality from the…

Review of Holy Nihilism

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:January 2, 2021
Post category:Religion Reviews
Post comments:1 Comment

Eric Grant Claussen from Cultivate Virtue reviews Holy Nihilism: The Moral and Spiritual Case Against Christianity: I’ve read most of the anti-Christian authors worth their salt.Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and others.This…

Caffeine & Philosophy: Year-in-Review

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:December 30, 2020
Post category:Uncategorized
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Overall, 2020 has been a modest improvement for this blog. 30,438 is up from 30,012 in 2019, and 15,621 in 2018. The most popular posts from this year were "Post…

The Christmas Bomb in Nashville

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:December 29, 2020
Post category:People Psychology
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When you're aloneAnd life is making you lonely,You can always goDowntown... Anthony Warner, the man behind the enormous bombing in downtown Nashville on Christmas, purportedly blared "Downtown" by Petula Clark…

An Autopsy of COVID-Science

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:December 27, 2020
Post category:Philosophy Psychology
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This morning, Google prompted me with this story: "Oh interesting," I thought. Maybe, in spite of the Danish mask study and Ivor Cummins' research on anti-COVID measures generally, they found…

Is it time to Grieve for Christmas?

Post author:C.B. Robertson
Post published:December 13, 2020
Post category:Culture Psychology
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I was watching Viva Frei the other day, and he had some complaints about a tone-deaf Montreal "morale" campaign: https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1336673523306291201 Quebec isn't the only place trying to force you to…