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Catch up with my rubbish rants and my astonishingly clever insights into the human condition. Those aren't mutually exclusive.
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Mere Christianity. (opens the original)
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Universal Moral LawBefore reading Mere Christianity I'd read the problem of pain by Lewis. In that book he tries his hardest to answer the question of pain, but his answer required taking too many unjustified liberties. First, one had to assume that the world — and the pain we feel in it — is irrelevant because of our eternal soul. Secondly, one had to assume that pain was inevitable, and was a necessary property of having freewill. One also had to assume that as a rule God can only perform a fe
Japa Is Bad Actually (opens the original)
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Our nation is sadly not one blessed by intellectual talent by the bushel-load. This is obvious when one considers the best estimates of IQ scores that we have. Even if you think IQ is fake, the evidence can be seen in multiple other domains; there are no globally significant Nigerian scientists in the hard sciences, there are no trailblazing Nigerian tech companies, Nigerians are extremely under-represented at the forefront of scientific discoveries, and there is no vital contingent of Nigerian
4,000 Subscribers and Other Tragedies (opens the original)
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About this time last year, after noticing how much grief I was getting in real life over what I wrote online, I decided to give my friends and family even more things to cry about by increasing the number of letters I wrote. I’d looked at the numbers, and suspected that I could engineer a 100% growth rate over a year if I published twice weekly. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!71Xh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
Elewa at the embassy (opens the original)
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The backstory is long and uninteresting, but I — humble Elewa — found myself working the front desk at a western embassy. The grace of God works wonders and they are marvelous in our sight. Now, by working the front desk, I mean I was in charge (alongside other (un)fortunate fellows) of checking people in to the reception (fancy party) for selected guests.The rules of the checkpoint were this: present your government-issued ID, and we will check it against the guest list and allow you enter. Sim
Meat, Morality, and the limits of the liberal religion (opens the original)
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I’ve always dismissed veganism. When I first learned of the existence of people who, on principle, did not eat meat, I thought they suffered from a mental illness. That is partly because meat in my country is like caviar in the west. As a child, I was only entitled to one tiny piece of meat per day (on days where I had the meat to even eat) and could only take it as part of dinner. So eating meat, to me, is the highest from of culinary luxury. To then discover that some people did not partake in
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