"Read Malinowski, and perhaps a high school class in philosophy is not enough for you to understand epistemology if you don't understand what I mean.  As annoying as I find postmodernism, you'd at least have to have read Foucault."

"I agree with you on that."

"Arguments about religion are generally kind of pointless, because they boil down to epistemology and an argument between two epistemologies is like a boxing match between people standing in different rings.    Those arguments generally…"

"Do you mean "did he exist?" or "is He the Lamb of God who died for our sins?" because those are very different questions.   Evaluating historical sources is a complicated task-- you look at the sources, compare to other…"

"Very eclectic.  I'm generally most into postpunk, but my playlist contains everything from Joy Division to Hazel Dickens, to Delirium, to Johnny Cash, to John Coltrane, to Abba to, Josh White, to Wumpscut, to Voltaire, to Murder By Death,…"

"Are they kind of folk-metal? Not familiar, I don't think, but are they a bit like Eleuviete?"

"You can add Mormons to that list. it goes to show that a group that starts drawing arbitrary lines to exclude people is going to keep doing so. Invidiously excluding people seems to be addictive."

"Your moment of utterly surreal trivia: I think it's called a "cilice," but I may have read that in Dan Brown's book ( "Da Vinci Code" or "The Da Vinci Code," something like that) I also remember it being in…"

"I think that it has to do with the fact that "wrong" has become a four-letter word in our public discourse."

"Welcome to TA. Quaker Eh. That had to have led to some good stories!"