Dan Chapa

I grew up in the DC area and I’ve been following the Redskins for as long as I can remember.   As a Cowboys fan, they are our main rival. I’m Mexican-American and brown skinned, but if I get a bit of sun, I don’t really burn, but turn a nice reddish/gold. As a kid, our family vacations were often to Laredo to see family and I remember fondly visiting my Tio Pete in Nuevo-Laredo.   To me, Laredo was one big city divided by the river.   What’s the difference between the Aztec and the Navajo?   The Aztec’s were said to have come down from the north and there are linguistic similarities.   Sure, they were different nations, but were they different races?   I don’t think so, any more than I think the Germans and Swiss are different races.   Am I Native American or am I Hispanic?   Even census and school questions still seem to have confusion on this.   If you say you are Native American, you are supposed to provide a tribe.   Is...

Actions presuppose an actor.   A person thinks, walks, talks.   A person’s actions are not independent of them.   Time measures change, relative to at least two entities, like my motion down the sidewalk relative to the earth’s motion around the sun.                You cannot climb the tower of babel because it no longer exists. That matter that used to be part of the tower still exists, but it has changed in shape and location.   Choices are actions and they presuppose the existence of the actor.   Relative to the motion of the sun, our minds may have changed and the state of the remains of the tower of babel may have changed. Our mental state of choosing X is not some new existent any more than the remains of the tower of babel is some new existent.   Human free will is no threat to God’s aseity or His unique ex nihilo creation.   Only God can create or annihilate entities.   God alone do...