Jay’s Analysis Tops Reddit’s Hot Philosophy Trend

A big thanks to readers out there who prompted Jay’s Analysis to top the philosophy trends section for almost two days, consistently beating out Peter Singer and David Chamlers, two of the world’s top philosophers.  Reddit’s philosophy trend has 109,000 followers and garnered a lot of attention for the article I wrote last year, “Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky Versus the Enlightenment Mythos.”

The Reddit trend brought almost 10,000 viewers in a 24-48 hour span.

The Reddit trend brought almost 10,000 viewers in a 24-48 hour span: a high number for a phiolosophy article.

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Improv and Comedy Showcase – Several Characters and Skits

Here’s a sampling of the videos I’ve done so far, which have been viewed 15,000 times: not bad for a few videos thrown up in the last year. All the impersonations and voices are done by me with no edits or stops. Very little planning beforehand is done. Enjoy! -Jay

Snake Plissken, aka, ‘Rattler’ responds to trends and economic analysts Gerald Celente and Max Keiser and tells how to conduct a war.

Your local liberal college professor does a video introduction for his lit 635 class.

Alex Jones Satire, Part 1.

Alex Jones Satire, Part 2.

Alex Jones Satire, Part 3.

Local white thug, Koop gets his own WB show and offers up a promo vid.

The Gospel Radio Hour with Brother Billy! Enigmatic Bible Prophecies Explained!

Jeff GaGa, President of the Lady GaGa fanclub shows you his V-Diary!

Classical Calvinist priss professor, Dr. Peter McWilson shows you heresy and how to avoid it.

Shocking and Supressed Cryptozoology and Government Secrets Exposed in the 1986 documentary!

Calvinist Bible Preacher Paul Washer responds to me quite virulently.

Having issues with hipsters and their “counter-culture’? F.N. r0b gives a little introduction to hipsterism. How ironic.

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Senate Candidate Rand Paul on his recent controversies and media attacks.

Why the Eastern View of the Eschaton Makes More Sense

“He, the Eternal King, recapitulates everything in himself” (Adversus haereses, III, 21,9)

By: Jay Dyer

For a long time I assumed that the Eastern notions of the eschaton sounded universalist and heretical. This was based on my staunchly Latin view of the eternal state, based in turn on what I had accepted as understood in the Augustinian and medieval milieu.  I want to thank Steven Kaster for taking the time to explain things to me much better. When I first read “River of Fire” by Kalomiros, I was struck by how unbiblical it sounded. It still does to me.  Kalomiros proposes that no one has understood what “justice” means in the west. That’s hard to accept.

As I read further, I encountered Isaac the Syrian and Basil in more depth, as well as soaking in St. Maximus, Von Balthasar and others, and the Nyssan-Maximian notions of perpetual progress in the eschaton.  More recently, reflection upon Anslem’s ideas of the meaning of the atonement have become increasingly ridiculous, too. Pope Benedict XVI wrote of how incoherent this view was back in 1968 in Introduction to Christianity, sharing many of the standard Eastern criticisms of the Latin ideas.  This is also the basis for the controversial Vatican Declaration on Limbo from a few years ago.  And you can see from its footnotes it’s relying on Eastern Fathers.  Read more of this post

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