WOTMQ: Defeaters
I've gotten back to taking in a lot of philosophy again. I read quite a bit in the field in my twenties and thirties. I even made it through Robert Nozick's 800-page "Philosophical Explanations" which I one day hope to translate into English.
I soured on philosophy in favor of science because philosophy almost never moves the ball. It's all talk, no action. At least, that's the way I saw it then... and still do.
In returning to the discipline, I'm reminded of how silly some of the talk seems. Bill Craig talks about defeaters and defeater-defeaters. AKA: My defeater can beat up your defeater. But in this video, I look at how Mormonism's "defeaters" compare with Christianity's. I don't see the difference. Though clearly, Bill does.
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I was in the MTC six weeks when I got a record contract with Lex de Azevedo. I bailed out — and suffered tremendous backlash (until the album was released). I think it would have taken me a lot longer to find my way out had I gone. Especially since I didn't become a Latin Americanist!
Damn straight! You already know how my burning bosom prompted me to serve a Mormon mission in Argentina. Many years later (too many!), after earning multiple degrees as a Latin Americanist, reading, researching, studying, lecturing, teaching about pre-Columbian civilizations… it was painfully clear that said burning was merely an indigestion that no apologist's omeprazole could cure.