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LOGICAL MINDS ONLY

LOGICAL MINDS ONLY

By Robert Burk

Logic is not opinion nor is it moved by assumptions. Logic follows its own course and rules. Logic cannot be rescinded, reconfigured or reformed. Logic is implacable and absolute. LOGICAL MINDS ONLY follow logic to where it leads. Those who do not follow logic to wherever it leads end up in a place that is demonstrably irrational. LOGICAL MINDS ONLY is a podcast for those whose commitment to logic is absolute. Those whose commitment is to an ideology, or particular worldview, or set of assumptions or who want to find factoids to support an assumption are wasting their time here.
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LOGICAL MINDS ONLYFeb 12, 2020

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Can Socialism Be Destroyed

Can Socialism Be Destroyed

Socialism is considered to produce less efficient results than a market. Regardless, of how one may argue the point, no one has actually established a mechanism for eliminating the need or preference for at least some public sector engagement; until now. Socialism can be utterly eliminated by eliminating the need for the public sector. And it is not as difficult as you think.

Apr 18, 202408:10
Christian Apriorism

Christian Apriorism

There is not one infinitely complex world that contains and encompasses everything. Such a reality cannot contain absolute truth for absolute truth is incompatible with a world in which truth is relative and man is free to follow any path of his or her choosing. This essay sets out the other option.

Apr 13, 202408:25
Theology Of Militarism

Theology Of Militarism

Christians have been readier to embrace the politics of peace than the scripture of war. Militarism is considered a sin in many Christian pulpits. But the language and motifs of war are found everywhere in the Bible.



Apr 08, 202410:00
The Golden Age Revealed

The Golden Age Revealed

The Golden Age is often mocked but refuses to die. Few people of any maturity do not feel the past was somehow better, even when considering such things as the primitive level of medicine. Is this desire for a past Golden Age just a longing for childhood or is there something more to our looking back with some regret. When we talk of the Golden Age of Rome, Athens or Islam, we are not fantasizing, so what if there was something more substantial about the Wests reminiscing, than a dream of childhood? What makes for a Golden Age and can we start to dream of a future Golden Age, rather than one viewed in hindsight.

Apr 07, 202410:00
Five Errors Every Economist Believes

Five Errors Every Economist Believes

It is not only economists who are victimized by these errors, our Western Civilizations used them for the foundation of their cultures. If things shaky now it is because the faults upon which our cultures are based, are starting to crumble.


Apr 06, 202410:00
Five Errors Every Economist Believes

Five Errors Every Economist Believes

It is not only economists who are victimized by these errors, our Western Civilizations used them for the foundation of their cultures. If things shaky now it is because the faults upon which our cultures are based, are starting to crumble.

Apr 04, 202410:00
The Fall Of Babylon

The Fall Of Babylon

The fall of Babylon is only possible if the church rises, they hold an inverse relationship. There is not a third or fourth alternative organizational model to follow. There is no range of possibilities. We are either in the church obeying God or we are in Babylon and building it up.

Mar 31, 202410:00
A Charitable Response To Poverty

A Charitable Response To Poverty

Poverty cannot be solved by greed nor by force. We cannot expect the most ruthless and selfish of men become altruistic, especially when part of a system that rewards selfish, self-interest and penalizes anyone motivated by pity. But it does not help much if the state steps in and attempts to bury the worst effects of greed by systematic expropriations and handouts. Indeed, the socialism of the state is likely only to worsen things in the long run, as the rich fight harder to retain what is theirs and the poor get used to going to the state for the things they need.

Mar 30, 202409:57
God’s Alternative To Globalism

God’s Alternative To Globalism

God has the solution to globalism, if you want it.

Mar 29, 202410:00
How To Separate From Crime

How To Separate From Crime

It may be impossible to eliminate crime and sin but it is possible to separate from it by making it too expensive to engage in it, at least where we are. Learn how to separate from crime, as a church.

Mar 29, 202405:15
Universalism What Does It Mean

Universalism What Does It Mean

Universalism is a form of apologetics that argues that if a belief is true, it is universal, if a solution is a solution, is applies to all cases and situations. There is no singular or partial truth nor disassociated solution without relevance to the single, all-encompassing solution. In short, Universalism points to the origin of truth. If you know one truth, you know all truth. If you have a solution, you have all solutions. By the same token, you embrace one lie you embrace all lies. If you have one problem, you have all problems. Many like to think they know mostly truth but are infected with a few partial truths, or that they have some problems but mostly the problems are only the solution improperly implemented. But lies and truth cannot be reconciled or made compatible in some way. Universalism is the truth and is the whole, all-encompassing truth that wipes out all problems, including unemployment, debt, poverty, inflation, pollution, waste, taxation, homelessness, war, property crime and the cost of the state generally. The reality is, if you do not embrace the truth, you have these problems. If you have these problems you have rejected the truth.

Mar 25, 202408:45
How Many Realities Are There

How Many Realities Are There

Many people think there are an infinite number of universes, others say there is but one. But the theory of many universes means the metaverse is the true universe and all the versions of the universe are really parts of a larger universal whole. Those who claim there is one universe acknowledge there are many different ways of thinking about what this universe looks like. The one universe is composed of an infinite number of actual ways of thinking what the universe looks like. So the one universe has an infinite number of version. These two extremes then are the same theory expressed in two different ways. We call this the One Reality Hypothesis because in this theory there are many related versions about what is real, but they all assume reality is relative to the observer. Those who subscribe to The One Reality Hypothesis thinks reality is real, but reality is contingent upon the observer. There is no absolute, non-contingent truths in this way of thinking about what is real. But if this reality is valid, where do absolute truths come from. If numbers and truth are not real things, why do they exist?

Mar 24, 202414:46
Reaching The Universal Mind

Reaching The Universal Mind

Is there no truth and no source of truth. Ultimately, is there no meaning in the universe? That cannot be or we would cease to be rational, as there would be no meaning to the idea. If there is reason and truth in this universe it has to be identifiable, meaning, lies cannot be true and bad cannot be good. There must be a type of thing we can know as being true and good that is separate from all the many other things we can identify as being lies and bad. But the source of truth must be a mind and this mind must encompass all that is true and good, otherwise it would not be true and good, as nature cannot produce truth or meaning. All truth and meaning and all that is good must come from a Universal Mind, a Mind that contains all that is good and true, because it is this mind that defines what is true and what is good.

Mar 20, 202409:39
The Church Versus The State

The Church Versus The State

There is a reason why we talk of the church and state as if they were polar opposites and why there is an ongoing discussion over which institution has the greater right when it comes to education and the nature of morality. In our hearts we know there is a conflict between them even if we may not understand it in our heads. However, in this regard atheists tend to be far more aware of the incompatibility of church and state than Christians. The latter seem always hopeful for some kind of reconciliation or negotiated settlement. Atheists seem well aware that the two are incompatible and ultimately what the two sides are engaged in, is a fight to the death.


Mar 19, 202410:00
How Many Sciences Are There

How Many Sciences Are There

This world has many disciplines but there is only one science. This has to be so or there is not but one, all-encompassing truth. If this was so and there is but one science, there cannot be more than one all-encompassing experiment. But agreeing to this also means that there is but one Control Group and since this Control Group encompasses the world, it must leave us with one problem: how do we construct the Test Group? Who is in it and how is its performance quantified? Ultimately, one truth leads to another, if there is any truth at all, the conclusion must be reality is an experiment between those who live right and those who live in error. The details of the experiment tells us where the line must be drawn. In fact, the experiment must already exist, we only need to formalize it with the development of the Test Group.


Mar 18, 202414:31
The Sin All Christians Are Complicit In

The Sin All Christians Are Complicit In

The church is incompatible with the state. They exist in an inverse relationship. Most Christians would argue that their first love is the church and that while they obey the law they do so only from necessity. Christian would summarily reject they are the main contributor to the state and the main reason why the state persists. Yet, it is the sin of the Christian that gives the state its power.


Mar 13, 202410:00
The Alternative To Globalism

The Alternative To Globalism


Every nation is a pyramid and every pyramid focuses power onto the center. These pyramids all seek to concentrate power at the center. Over time the centers will learn to cooperate to further consolidate their power. This gives rise to globalism. Globalism is the inevitable outcome of nations organized pyramidically. There is no pyramidal structure that can serve as an alternative to and antidote for, globalism. No nation can defeat globalism as there is no nation that opposes globalism.


Mar 12, 202410:00
Apriology The Christian Theory Of Everything

Apriology The Christian Theory Of Everything

If truth exists it cannot contradict itself or it is not truth. There must be a way to reconcile all sciences and if there is a true religion, it must also be reconcilable with all other truth. If there is a truth, then truth would result in the elimination of all problems, at least in the theoretical sense. There would be solutions to unemployment, debt, poverty, inflation, pollution, waste, taxation, homelessness, war, property crime and the cost of the state generally. Even if not used the solution would have to be there. Which means, if we have social problems, it is because we choose to have them and we have chosen, for our own reasons, not to eliminate them. The Christian Theory of Everything proves this is true, also it proves Christianity is one hundred percent consistent with the truth and contains solutions to every problem, implicitly and explicitly and the only reason the church has problems is because of our failure to embrace the truths of Scripture.


Mar 09, 202410:00
A Two Year And One Law Plan For Eliminating Crime

A Two Year And One Law Plan For Eliminating Crime

If we stated it is impossible to eliminate crime, no one would notice.

If we claimed crime could be eliminated, a storm of criticism would emerge. Those who did not respond, would be convinced it was a police state that was being promoted. The problem is we live in a monochrome world, in which every issue is black and white and every solution, a shade of grey.


Mar 07, 202407:19
Good And Evil In Three Lessons

Good And Evil In Three Lessons

What is good and evil if not subjective? But if good and evil are what we each decide, the very idea of there being a good and evil is invalidated. There must be an objective good, measurable and quantifiable, if it is to be real and divisible from evil.


Mar 06, 202410:00
ARE UNIONS OBSOLETE

ARE UNIONS OBSOLETE

It seems a given that unions are obsolete. But change their name to an association and they become vital players in workers rights, at least if the worker is a tradesperson or professional. Unions seem to have lost relevance only for the poorer and less powerful category of employee.


Mar 05, 202410:00
The Ecumenical Hardline

The Ecumenical Hardline

The Ecumenical Hardline is a response to the ecumenical compromises that has been the path the Christian churches have followed to date. Ecumenical compromise is the equivalent of Chamberlains policy of appeasement. We never negotiate with evil; we do not attempt to reconcile with the devil.


Mar 05, 202406:31
The Proof Of God And The Route To Guaranteed Wealth

The Proof Of God And The Route To Guaranteed Wealth

In this essay we make the argument that poor persons may manifest God but to demonstrate the existence of God in a scientific and replicable way, there has to be a manifestation of economic superiority. Man cannot live right, in obedience to God, without living a better life, this requires property. The pious individual is a real thing but the obedient community living in poverty is unbiblical. This is not about the prosperity gospel; it is about God being in charge.


Mar 04, 202411:51
The Problem Is You Do Not Know The Solution

The Problem Is You Do Not Know The Solution

Ecumenicalism is usually considered a process of bringing the churches together. It is this but it is more about dealing with the wolves among us.

We cannot solve problems by embracing the symptoms. The symptoms are the worlds system. Jesus did not for nothing reject the devils offer of food, security and power. We need to do the same.

There is only one solution and that is the one in the Bible. We must separate from evil; it is not up to us to solve it nor to subsidize it. We need to start an ecumenical movement that not only brings the faithful together, it also divides us from the problem, which is the world.


Mar 03, 202403:55
The Church As A Meritocracy

The Church As A Meritocracy

Technically everyone agrees there ought to be a meritocracy but since there is not, we do with the next best thing, which might be communism, socialism or capitalism though there are also other options. But no one pretends these are real meritocracies that reward solely on merit. Which naturally leads to the question if a meritocracy is even possible and if it is, what would it look like. We say it looks like the church which leads us to suppose a church is actually a meritocracy not the school or club it has become. So, what reforms need to be implemented and what impact has this on the second best choices we are using at present?

Mar 01, 202410:00
Alegalist

Alegalist

An alegalist is a person without the law. Normally this might be associated with Christians. In fact many Christians have chosen to live in the law and in fact, if one observes how Christians actually live, in contradistinction to what they say, they look as much under the law as any secularist. Yet, there is a group that lives beyond the law and it is probably not whom you might think. Even Jesus says not all who call Lord, Lord are known to him, yet those who do not know him but who are a law unto themselves, live as a Christian would. So, perhaps salvation is more nuanced than most of us think, which means the church more not be all we think it is, either.


Feb 28, 202409:51
Dominionism Is The Third Way

Dominionism Is The Third Way

The world has not be successful in finding a third way, as an alternative to the left and right political spectrum or as an alternative to capitalism and communism, because our minds visualize the left and right as two extremes, when this is not what they are. These extremes as we think of them, are two faces of the same evil. The problem is, by the time most of you will have figured this out we will be in a globalist One World Government that owns and controls everything. On the plus side the left and the right we have become amalgamated into this single globalist hegemony. Then we will realize the war was always about good versus evil.


Feb 27, 202408:35
Twenty Truths

Twenty Truths

This is an early expression of the fundamental truths of Apriorian Apologetics. However, these rules are still valid.


Feb 26, 202403:34
Plan For A Meritocracy

Plan For A Meritocracy

What is a meritocracy and what defines merit? Does the state define the level of merit a person or act has? Does a business, or can we ask our family and friends? Perhaps merit is defined by popularity or the amount of money one earns. In any case what we think has merit and who we think has merit tells everyone a lot about us, not so much about the person rated or even our rating system. However, all that being said and true, there is a way to determine a persons merit.


Feb 25, 202409:26
The Meritocratic Way

The Meritocratic Way

What is the purpose of man? Can we create our own reason for being or is there something we are specifically designed for, and what happens when we decide to try and do something or be something we were not designed to be or do? The results ought to be predictable. If we do what we are not purposed to do, we fail.

Feb 22, 202410:00
How Many Steps To Freedom

How Many Steps To Freedom

We all want freedom, it seems, but it seems a far way off. But have we ever described the freedom we are after? Do we know what it looks like. In this essay we strive to look at the paths to freedom and determine how many steps it takes to reach the goal of freedom. The findings will surprise you, the journey is no where as long as you think, assuming you are on the right path, but no worries, we tell you how to get there.


Feb 21, 202411:29
The Question That Terrifies Christians

The Question That Terrifies Christians

The Bible has solutions for every problem, without exception. Some solutions are implicit others explicit, regardless, the Bible does solve every problem. The vehicle for the implementation of these solutions is the church. Therefore, it follows the church properly constructed is the answer to all problems humans have encountered. Apologetics, the science that constructs the church from the lies of the world, makes the church manifest. If there are problems not fixed by the church the only possible conclusion is, we are not the church described in the Bible, particularly the church of Matt. 18:15-19.

Feb 19, 202406:42
The Rational Faith

The Rational Faith

To be rational we have to privatize. One cannot be rational in a socialist environment. Rationality has to be accompanied by consequences an unless consequences are private, they have no impact. Faith is rational because it is necessary to have faith in one another and irrational to fear one another, because we cannot live like that for long. Christianity is rational because it is a faith that requires us to trust one another and to be trustworthy, before God.

Feb 18, 202410:00
Reflections On The World

Reflections On The World

It seems everyone is convinced something has gone wrong, if it had not gone wrong before, it is going wrong now. But the consensus is, what has been going wrong for a long time, has started to bear fruit. But what is behind all this that is happening? It was going wrong before any cabal was formed, before a politician was elected or any family or race had gained any real power. So, the problem, at its most basic, has to be closer to what the Bible calls, principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness. But that being said, the more important question is. Has this evil gone too far or is there a way back from this chaos?

Feb 17, 202408:36
Time And Faith

Time And Faith

What is time in its relationship to faith? How does time factor in when it comes to building the church? These questions are answered in the activity called ecumenicalism.



Feb 15, 202410:00
Liberalism Versus Scientific Temporalism

Liberalism Versus Scientific Temporalism

Time is not imaginary, nor is it totally subjective. Speed is not something one can hold in one’s hand or feel, but it is real. In this same sense, time is real. An odometer measures speed as a thermometer measures heat. These things are not the measurement, but they are real as anything else. So is time real. Clocks measure time as scales measure weight. Modernism is the phenomenon of travelling through time under power, rather than like a stone rolling down hill. Scientific Temporalism is a way to put man in the drivers seat and control our passage through time in a way never before possible.

Feb 13, 202410:00
What The West Must Do And Why

What The West Must Do And Why

Western people observe a shift in power that has come from a hand stretched out in friendship. A desire for peace is interpreted as a fear of war. But we have won enough wars to know victory through warfare is not a permanent solution, so we look for other ways based on a different analysis of the data. There is an alternative path to war the West could take and indeed must take but it is unlikely to be the one you are ready to take.

Feb 12, 202410:00
Economic Development For Africa

Economic Development For Africa

What if Africa could be developed? What if we could invalidate all the arguments against the possibility of a third world nation lifting itself up using its own resources? What if a nation or region did not need the support of international bankers or the global economy? What if even a tribe could begin the process of economic development with only itself to rely on? Would this not give hope to the rest of us? This short piece shows how any group, anywhere, can develop using only one thing and one thing only, faith. You either have it or you do not. If not, all is lost. If you do, all things are possible.


Feb 10, 202408:55
Activism

Activism

What is Activism and when is it appropriate and when does it lack legitimacy? Social justice warriors are energetic activists always protesting one wrong or the other and demands the wrong be made right. But who can a wrong be made right if one is protesting from a leftist perspective? Words actually have meaning. There is something inherently wrong with the protests and activism of the left. It’s a problem that only the right can make right.


Feb 09, 202410:00
Why Whites Help Others And Why It Is Our Undoing

Why Whites Help Others And Why It Is Our Undoing


Whites engage in charity, at home and abroad. We fund missions and Non Govermental Organizations as well as public agencies created to assist other nations and peoples, regardless of the circumstance. We even go to war or operate peace keeping missions where conflicts erupt. But there is a cost to all of these missions and charitable operations.


Feb 08, 202408:26
The Pure Way

The Pure Way

Would you like to know why all debates end up with the protagonists taking opposite positions, and why the longer the debate, the more polarized the positions become? No debate can erase the division or even lesson the distance between the two sides. Indeed, debate always worsens the division. The right and left express a feminine and masculine perspective. Both masculine and feminism have extremist positions. When masculine becomes political extremism, we have absolutism. When feminism becomes extremist, politics becomes the cradle to grave welfare state. Both extremes are wrong because they express a lie. The two extremes of right and left are two responses to the same lie, that people cannot be trusted. The truth is liars cannot be trusted, but not all people are liars. The reason for the polarization is simple, both sides fear the other. People respond to fear in either a masculine or feminine way. Each way only exacerbates the fears of the other side, so the more you defend your position the more you excite fear in the other side, deepening the division.


Feb 07, 202404:36
Three Orders From God And What They Mean For The Church

Three Orders From God And What They Mean For The Church

Are you confused about who to love? Do you love your enemies and are they your neighbor? The conventional interpretation does not make sense. We know this and no one lives by it. So what did God actually order us to do, when He told us to fulfill the Great Commission? In this essay we look at:

The Great Commission, The Two Greatest Commandments and The Golden Rule; to discover the thread that holds them together.


Feb 04, 202410:00
Scientific Solutions To Every Problem

Scientific Solutions To Every Problem

We are familiar with the division of science into hard and soft. The hard sciences are able to quantify data and therefore impose a level of accuracy on their findings not possible in the humanities. But number and measurement systems are not natural. Physics is not found to have mathematical equations. A mile is not observed in nature. It took a high level of sophistication to devise our metrics. It is one thing to invent numbers. It is another thing to invent an inch or degrees Celsius.

What use would numbers be if we could not use feet and inches to measure dimensional lumber? A board foot is a length. Length is a dimension. But what is there in human life that can be quantified? To create a science that solves social problems we first need to find the thing in human life that can be quantified.


Feb 02, 202410:00
The Doctrine Of Spiritual Rights

The Doctrine Of Spiritual Rights

Human rights are technically speaking, legal rights. Human rights are null and void without the courts. We claim we have the right of free speech but it is a right modified and regulated by the legal system. It can be rescinded at any time. We may claim to have equal rights but we have only the expectation of what the law provides. If the law cannot define it, it does not exist at least as an administrative right. A man has the right to be a woman because the law has decreed it. A man can play sports on the women’s team and older men can shower with young girls, if the law agrees to this and if the man fulfills the conditions set out in the law. The law can declare a protest is a revolution and character assassination is rape. Nothing exists in a legal sense until the courts say so. On the other hand, if the court says it is so, it is so. But is there another source of rights other than the heavy and often biased hand of the law?

Jan 31, 202409:55
The Golden Age 2024

The Golden Age 2024

There is an assumption that a Golden Age never existed as history never provides us a time when there were no problems. But the Golden Age is not necessarily a utopia, in the conventional understanding of the term. The Golden Age only needs to be better than all the periods before it, and all of the times following it. The Golden Age harkens back to the time when we came closest to fulfilling our destiny.



Jan 30, 202412:53
The Story Of Peter

The Story Of Peter

The story of Peter is the story of Christianity, particularly the rift between Catholics and Protestants. Is the church built on Christ, or Peter? Until this is settled, we cannot build the church. The church is not buildings or persons, that is true, but it is ecumenical. We cannot permit doctrine to divide us and remain one body.


Jan 29, 202418:47
Be Ye Separate

Be Ye Separate

This is a selection of Biblical versus mentioning the requirement of the church to separate from the world. Most Christians are of course, well-aware of this doctrine but pass it off as just one more thing Christ was either wrong about or exaggerated the importance of. Nevertheless, the passages are quoted here in the hopes that some might see Jesus did mean what he said and did expect us to take his words seriously.


Jan 28, 202412:59
The Dynamics Of Poverty

The Dynamics Of Poverty

Poverty is the direct result of idolatry. The poor are not victims of circumstance nor even collateral damage. The poor have always been portrayed as the victim. These are the forgotten in a system that favors the rich and powerful. The solution has always been to challenge the rich and powerful to share the wealth. But the problem is darker and more sinister than what greed as the modus operandi suggests. The problem of poverty is the problem of evil. Poverty being just one of the many symptoms of a people in the middle of spiritual warfare. If we serve the devil there are consequences. If we wish to eliminate poverty, and the other social problems, we need to defeat our spiritual enemies.


Jan 26, 202418:11
The Moral Evaluation Of God By Man

The Moral Evaluation Of God By Man

The height of hypocrisy is man’s attempt to evaluate the morality of God. What possible standard has man, that would enable him to morally evaluate his own actions, let alone God’s? Is there something in nature that provides us with a moral standard? Do our emotions give us a reliable guide to what is right and wrong? We cannot even decide if it is right to live or not, or if it is evil to maintain human life; and now we want to branch out and put God under our moral microscope?


Jan 23, 202419:46
Do You Know What Whites Are Doing Wrong

Do You Know What Whites Are Doing Wrong

Right or wrong, at one time Whites were strong, our societies were strong because they were united. We had peace and prosperity and we have permitted this to be removed from our jurisdictions. A thousand reasons could be given. Hundreds of points of error could be listed. This change from peaceful prosperous community to degraded hellhole has been a long transformation accompanied by a myriad of significant alterations to the social fabric. No doubt a lot of reasons could be given for why all of this has happened. The change is not simple and not without a multitude of suspects. But there ought to be one fact that is obvious to all, whatever Whites were doing that made them successful, is certainly no longer working.


Jan 21, 202413:04