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Keith E. Buhler

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Is Beauty Objective?

If you are like most people alive today, you believe 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' This is exactly what I was taught and grew up

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Analytic and Contintental Philosophy (Means and Methods)

There has been much talk lately amongst my philosophy friends about “analytic” vs “continental” philosophy.  Analytic is characterized as desiring clarity of terms and exactitude of expression; continental as desiring fuzzy multi-dimensional terms and wholism of expression. They say that […]

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New Job

Well, Matt is always telling me to post “personal” updates, so here’s one: I’ve recently accepted a position Biola Youth’s Torrey Academy program to teach high school this year. Torrey Academy is the same Educational Supplement Program for homeschoolers that […]

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Scheduling and Research

It had been about a month since Dizzy and I sat down and decided to write a screenplay. We had each done our own research and internal development and come

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Mary for Evangelicals II

My friend Vicki responded in person to my first post about Jesus’ mother, saying that she (Vicki) does feel a certain sense of wonder about small objects that were touched or used by famous people of the past, Abraham Lincoln’s […]

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Exploring Creation Ex Nihilo

When someone says, "I had an idea," what exactly do they mean? Where do "ideas" come from? This is a question not often-enough asked in

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month One: Brainstorming a story

I confessed in my last post that I wanted to write a screenplay, and why. But I had a problem: Having friends in the film department at Biola, I knew

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Lungs and Mortality - Part III

Part III - Death and Vulnerability People are more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. One study (I heard of but haven't seen) showed that people

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Lungs and Mortality - Part II

Part II - Re-expansion of the lung may take several days with the chest tube left in place.   The second time my lung collapsed was one of the worst experiences

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Lungs and Mortality - Part I

Part I - The objective is to remove the air from around the lungs I was eighteen the first time my lung collapsed. The ER doctor called it a “spontaneous pneumothorax.

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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Preface: The 'Why'

I like writing. Fiction, non-fiction, lyrics and verse, whatever, it’s all good. Some of my heroes in history were writers, (though some were not, notably Jesus and Socrates) and I have found myself desirous and verbally able to begin an […]

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In Response to "Turkish Delight"

Second, the imposition of secular values on a society with strong religious sentiments only invites a backlash and revolt by those whose religion explicitly rejects secular and worldly notions. (See Mortimer Adler’s essay on World Peace In Truth for a […]