When was the last time you told a “white lie”? You know the one I mean, that harmless little lie you told to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Our world is rife with them, and they are slowly killing me.

The second in a series of posts laying out the process, step by step, of building an interpreter in Ruby for working with propositional logic. In this second post, we expand the interpreter to handle the full range of valid expressions in classical propositional logic.

The first in a series of posts laying out the process, step by step, of building an interpreter in Ruby for working with propositional logic. In this first post, we build an interpreter for working with simple logical expressions and dig into the specifics of the parts of an interpreter as well as the basics of propositional logic.

A remembering of the time I experienced the death of my self.

What does the phrase Word of God mean?

Should the central tenets of Christian theology be best understood as antinomies, or paradoxes, or both?

When talking about God, I’m not so certain that we have a great understanding of what we can and cannot say properly, or what we can and cannot understand properly.

I am but a water glass,
a container for my life.
Life osmoses through me
forming droplets of moments
that ruin rivulet-like to the tabletop.

How does the Ruby Time class relate to the ActiveRecord time column type?

I had felt it for a while, though even then I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that I knew. It’s odd when truth gnaws at your gut, but you stubbornly ignore it. It is odd because, on the one hand, you know it, but on the other, you don’t. It’s odd and...