Benjamin Blake Speed Watkins 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@SpeedWatkins
Engineer, Philosopher, Writer, and host of @RealAtheology. Ardent realist about everything except Theism and The Self. In my view, God and I are the problem. 🐳
If you are interested in reading #MobyDick, then come join us in the month of July: July 1-6: “Ishmael” Chapters 1-49 July 7-13 “Ahab” Chapters 50-87 July 14-20 “Moby Dick” Chapters 88-135 Each Sunday, I will host a Twitter space at 8PM EST to discuss that week’s reading.
It brings me no pleasure to report that I've written a reflection on New Atheism in the year of our Lord 2025
Every worldview has to face the problem of suffering. But which one gives the best answer? In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky takes it head on. We might flinch. But he doesn’t. Here’s what he says about it🧵
“oddly touching obtuseness” Say what you will of Hart, his command of prose and precision of diction are beyond dispute.
"I hasten to add. In my experience, the members of that sad and theologically aberrant faction, ... suffer from an oddly touching obtuseness with regard to moral judgments" David Bently Hart on the Thomists. davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/notes-on-nat…
"I hasten to add. In my experience, the members of that sad and theologically aberrant faction, ... suffer from an oddly touching obtuseness with regard to moral judgments" David Bently Hart on the Thomists. davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/notes-on-nat…
I have this friend who’s an ultra smart philosophy guy. He’s a professor, loves long walks at the same time every day, 5’2”, likes mustard. Maybe a touch socially awkward but a good dude (he never lies). Legit cannot find a gf. These types of guys used to clean up with women.
I have this friend who’s an ultra smart philosophy guy. He’s a professor, loves long walks at the same time every day, 5’2”, likes mustard. Maybe a touch socially awkward but a good dude (he never lies). Legit cannot find a gf. These types of guys used to clean up with women.
70 deg and thunderstorms
What's your ideal reading weather?
Here’s proof that philosophy is useful in understanding 3 minutes👇 youtu.be/JLD2MoEMmHo?si…
From Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th edition, Book III, Chapter 11:
It's been more than two years, and @NaturalismPanth's contemporary case for Atheism still remains undefeated. People can talk about a "Christian Revival" all they want, but it means nothing until the best versions of Atheism are addressed and engaged with by apologists.
*❗️NEW CASE AGAINST THEISM JUST DROPPED❗️* My long-awaited post outlining my reasons for atheism is finally complete. I have put my effort into this post than anything else on the blog, by far, so I hope you all enjoy it! naturalismnext.blogspot.com/2022/12/why-im…
Here is your reminder to read Berserk if you haven’t yet. Masterpiece
This is the modern version of Diogenes using a plucked chicken to refute Plato’s definition of a man as a featherless biped. Not only is it a troll argument through and through, but it also goes a good distance in accomplishing what it sets out to do. “Behold, I have hands!”
If you ever think you are bad at philosophy just remember G.E. Moore published this:
There is no god.
If you were going to go on the "one guy who's kind of decent at arguing debates 20 morons" show, what point would you argue with the morons?
I maintain with Aquinas that the best two arguments for atheism are the problem of evil and that you can explain everything without God; I differ from him because I think the latter argument is more powerful than the former. Likely a minority who thinks so.
Maybe the real client list was the Presidents we made along the way.