One like, one insight from my friends who just had a baby. 1. The attributes that make a good fellow parent are very different than what one optimizes for a “fun friend you have sex with”. Including: ability to function when under stress and sleep deprived, body shape being a lot less important, and ability to let the other takeover.

Focusing on God’s sovereignty is only helpful when you have a firmer grasp of his goodness than his sovereignty. If that’s at all in doubt, it risks turning God into a tyrannical father rather than the benevolent All-Good. God’s benevolence does not directly or easily follow from his sovereignty. So it’s also a non-starter for an axiom both in the sense of starting point or a pithy summary of important parts.

How it started, how it's going. Another interpretation:

16. Virtue can and should be practiced in every moment of life. Virtue enhances your enjoyment of leisure time and makes it easier to endure suffering. It is the key to achieving excellence in lesser goods and abilities. It's what makes friendships so enjoyable. 17. It's good to cycle through your virtues and vices and focus on one at a time, like a greedy shipping company owner watching the ledger for a specific business venture.

One like, one philosophical musing on software engineering and technology business. 1. The central discipline of software engineering is in fact software testing.

One like, one tip on cultivating virtue. 1. What is cultivated is honored; what is measured is honored. So start by measuring your virtues. The classical four is a good start.

One like, one tweet on dating and sex relations in the contemporary era. Market analogies explain much of the dysfunction of the mating game, but they don't explain it when it's functioning properly.

smol brain: Marriage is capitalism for sex.
galaxy brain: Marriage is the only institution for sexual expression which *isn't* fundamentally economic and capitalistic. Marriage is a sexual monopoly. Monopolies aren't under the sway of market forces. Therefore marriage eliminates the power of market forces over sex.

One like, one strategy for thriving as a member of an oppressed minority in a systemically racist nation state. 1. Rally what political power you have to reduce the power of institutions and keep them in the hands of your local communities. Typically this will mean you will favor reductions in central government and welfare, if it reduces your community’s tax burden.

Who wants a tweet storm on the problem of evil and various theistic responses? The problem of evil is the question of why is there evil in the world, if God is good and runs the world. It’s an ancient question which predates Christianity and philosophy.

Argument From Contingency :

1. There exists a contingent being (you)
2. If there exists a contingent being, there exists Necessary Being
3. Therefore, there exists Necessary Being, which all call God.

Argument for the truth of 2 to follow.

https://twitter.com/AStratelates/status/1290120091430862848

Proof for (2):

1. The totality of possible things is either necessary contingent.
2. The totality cannot be necessary since it exists through the existence of its members.
3. So the totality of possible things is contingent.
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Here’s a quick outline of some of the simplest evidences for the existence of God:

1. You exist, but it’s possible for you to not exist. Since you are a contingent object, you are proof through the argument from contingency. 2. Change occurs. This is evidence for God by the argument from motion.

3. Human minds can grasp fundamental truths of reality. This is evidence by the argument from platonica

4. There is good in the world. This is evidence from Providential management.

One like, one opinion I am careful not to share with my colleagues. 1. Sexual proclivities don’t belong in the public sphere at all.

> Why should anybody accept your God and (Christian) morality?

I'll start at God and then go to various quasi-religious systems, and finally Christianity. This'll be a bit long and not especially detailed, but hey, it is what it is.

First, why God rather than no God? Fundamentally, there are only 2 possibilities. Platonism (broadly, to include Aristotle, the Stoics, etc.) says the world is fundamentally rational: comprehensible by intelligence.

The other option is the world is Heraclitean, & we are only in a bubble of local (apparent) order.

One like, one strongly held opinion on the culture war that’s contrary to what I perceive as the consensus. Only consume media which is worth reconsuming.

One like, one prohibition I’ve learned that’s helpful. Don’t say yes halfheartedly.