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February 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Lost Highway is a bizarre, psychical film that has mystified most. Reviews and analyses abound with endless questions and speculations that often fail to transcend the most...

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January 26, 2014 - 0 Comments

In Part 1 of this discussion, I introduce metaphysics (the branch of philosophy, not witch books), and explain why it has been suppressed in the West. I argue that a...

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January 20, 2014 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer The Matrix, as I’ve joked many times, is one of those perennial topics in philosophy 101 classes that tends to evoke the most inane and mindless “philosophizing”...

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January 4, 2014 - 0 Comments

When Vergil wrote the Aeneid, he was writing Imperial mythology to vindicate Rome as the new civilization chosen by the state-approved gods. When Spenser wrote The Faerie Queen, he was admittedly...

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January 2, 2014 - 0 Comments

The technocratic, panopticon Eye of Big Brother watches you. By: Jay Dyer All the smart dummies, upper class and yuppies go along with and/or join the Outer Party thinking they’ll...

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December 28, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Dune is an amazing novel: There is a reason it’s the best-selling science fiction series of all time.  Prescient for his time (1965), author Frank Herbert was able...

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November 15, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I started this out as a long comment, but I decided it would make for a good post, as I’ve been seeking an educated atheist to debate...

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November 12, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay In over eight years of higher education, a thread I was able to see emerging was the “new atheist”/atheist trend.  Part of the reason for that was embarking...

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November 4, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer A major problem for the philosophy of science and religious traditions is the question of observational neutrality and rational theory choice.  Can one’s observations be independent of an...

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October 29, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay What is “reason”?  Dr. Bahnsen made a great point several years ago about the mass equivocation on the subject of “reason.”  It’s a common word, used by everyone,...

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October 21, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Vertigo is the best place to start a Hitchcock analysis.  While many themes repeat in his films, Vertigo is most memorable for its psychological depth and mystique. ...

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September 27, 2013 - 0 Comments

Author and historian James Kelley returns to JaysAnalysis to discuss his groundbreaking research on the history of the Frankish empire and its relationship to various developments in western theology and...

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September 27, 2013 - 0 Comments

The Dooms Chapel Horror director John Holt and producer Chris Bowers return to JaysAnalysis to discuss more details of the upcoming film.  We joke about directors and some of the funny...

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September 24, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer Now You See Me is, on one level, a silly, contrived film about a group of magicians invited to be part of a large-scale heist and con operation. ...

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September 14, 2013 - 0 Comments

  “Bono is a celestial-sent cockblock to all this environmental rapeyness.” -Jezz By: Jessica Trendi Ok, first of all, Bono is like sooo deep. I’ve followed U2 for years and...

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September 14, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness differs quite a bit from the original reboot with a much deeper, esoteric geo-political plot.  While Star Trek was much better rated, and in ways...

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September 5, 2013 - 0 Comments

γνῶθι σεαυτόν By: Jay Dyer Certain snotty critics in a forum posted a criticism of my Thomism article, where I looked at the flaws in Thomism that led to, I believe, to Enlightenment scientism.  That’s...

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August 11, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer When contemplating the present zeitgeist, I am constantly struck by the never-ending stream of inane retardation that assaults my senses on a daily basis.  From the perspective...

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July 22, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Working my way through the Spielberg canon, I couldn’t pass up an esoteric analysis of E.T.  While I think Close Encounters is loaded with esoteric and conspiratorial clues and...

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July 6, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer I have written before about the importance of Leibniz, especially when it comes to complex metaphysical questions.  Some have wondered in the past why I have seen...

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