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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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February 14, 2014 - 0 Comments

In this installment, fellow student of philosophy Josh Dale joins me to hash out the question of Darwinism. Is Darwinism scientific and philosophically defensible? I argue in the negative, he...

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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 9, 2014 - 0 Comments

Part two of “Deconstructing Darwinism” In part 2, I pick up where I left off, devling deeper into the Darwinian and evolutionary paradigms. I focus more on the philosophical problems,...

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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 18, 2013 - 0 Comments

“‘Everything that is in motion must be moved by something.’ Gregory of Nazianzus, responding to Aristotle’s identification of God as a “fifth element” alongside the traditional four stoicheia, asked: ‘What...

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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 26, 2013 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer When considering the question of “proofs” for the existence of God, the history of argumentation has often been lacking.  The dialectical relationship of the empirical/materialist tradition debating...

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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 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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August 22, 2013 - 0 Comments

How would Thomism possibly lead to Enlightenment Deism/Atheism? By: Jay In my twenties, I was completely invested in the fortified religio-philosophical system known as Thomism.  Catholicism was a massive castle of...

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August 21, 2013 - 0 Comments

Download a higher quality mp3 here. Right click, save as In this interview, I quiz the Collins brothers on their claim that the alien mythos is manufactured by the power...

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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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June 3, 2011 - 0 Comments

  By: Jay Dyer Max Horkheimer and Theodore W. Adorno, key figures of the Frankfurt School of Marxist Critical Theory, wrote in their landmark work, “Dialectic of Enlightenment,” that “myth...

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May 7, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer (c) copyright The ontological argument of Anselm of Canterbury has long since captivated the minds of many philosophers and apologists. Not long after Anselm published his Proslogion, his...

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April 25, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer These 80s cult classics do well for analyses. Vitrually all the classics children of the 80s like myself grew up with were loaded with deeper, esoteric symbolism,...

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April 3, 2011 - 0 Comments

By: Jay Dyer See Also: Batman: The Dark Knight Rises – Esoteric Analysis Batman Begins marks a substantive renewal for the popular franchise. Taking the story in a much more...

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