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Outlaw Game

A philosophical adventure at Wild West University

Campfire Prologue

The Prospector Speaks

“Howdy there, partner. You best listen close. The Wild West University was built like a ghost town: plenty of signs, plenty of departments, but not much wisdom. Jeremiah Stone, the Outlaw Professor, has ridden in carrying the old questions: What can we know? What is real? What is good?”

“Can you help him navigate his way through them ol’ timey demons that have taken over each department? There’s not much new under the desert sun now, is there?”

“To pass each discipline, you must answer with clarity. Some answers glitter like fool’s gold. Only one will lead you deeper into the truth. Be ready to demolish all them arguments raised up against the knowledge of God.”

Wild West University

The Gates

The university rises out of the desert like an abandoned western town. The streets are dusty, the windows are dark, and somewhere inside each discipline a false philosophy holds students captive.

Wild West University map

Wild West University

Move Jeremiah Stone across the map. Step onto a location and press Enter or tap ENTER to begin that game.

Use arrow keys, WASD, or the on-screen controls to move.
First Enemy

“Knowledge is not possible.”

The gatekeeper snarls: “Tell me, Outlaw Professor, how can knowledge be possible?”

Answer

Inner Campus

The Captive Disciplines

Jeremiah Stone passes the first gate. Ahead, the departments of Wild West University stand under bondage to Canaanite-looking demons. Each discipline must be rescued by recovering Reason and revelation.

Disciplines saved: 0 of 7.

Physics Department

Welcome to Physics

Here we use empirical science to study matter and motion. Everything can be explained by matter and motion. All is matter. Even you are only matter. There is no God and there is no soul.

How will you demolish this argument?

Physics Department

Question

Discipline Restored

Physics Freed

You have freed Physics from captivity to material monism. Now it can be restored to studying the glory of God revealed in creation!

Sociology Department

Sociology: Man is the Measure

We study the human society as it progresses through the stages of magic and religion, philosophy, and finally its highest achievement materialist empirical science.

We help make Utopia possible by perfecting humanity's environment so that we produce the perfect man.

How will you demolish this argument?

Sociology Department

Question

Discipline Restored

Sociology Freed

You have freed Sociology from captivity to materialist theories of man and progress. Now it can be restored to studying human society in light of man made in the image of God, fallen in sin, and in need of true wisdom.

Psychology Department

Psychology: Free to Desire

The professor, looking slightly like Freud with an old west twist, studies you from the doorway. The room promises freedom, but the idol in the shadows whispers that man is nothing more than desire.

Department sign: Psychology will free you from repressed desires so that you live whatever impulses you have within. We will help you find your sexual identity and adopt the corresponding surgery. Society must enable individuals to live out their urges.

Psychology Trial

Challenge

Discipline Restored

Psychology Freed

You have freed Psychology from captivity to desire. It may now study the soul, the mind, and human longing under the truth that man is made for knowledge, holiness, righteousness, and the knowledge of God.

History Department

History Department: Progress toward Utopia

In our History classes, you will learn that mankind has progressed from primitive religions and superstitions into the postmodern human who is able to put aside all traditions and do whatever is pleasing.

Our history professors are trained in the materialist dialectic to help each student find their grievances and learn who is their enemy. Often within a class students are awakened to hate each other for their privilege.

Our professors will not rest until all disparities are erased and each human is lowered to the same standard. However, we do award extra points to those who come from historically oppressed classes. We have an intersectionality grid to help each student learn where they stand in oppression.

History Trial

Challenge

Discipline Restored

History Freed

You have freed History from captivity to utopian grievance and materialist dialectic. History may now study God’s providence, human sin, true justice, and the unfolding of nations without reducing every person to class, race, sex, or power.

Literature Department

Decolonizing the literary canon

In our literature department the student will be decolonized by teaching them that the supposed “great books” are the result of white male Christians oppressing the peoples of the world.

We reject the written word and instead teach pictographs, images, and ceremonial dances.

Literature Trial

Discipline Restored

Literature Freed

You have restored literature to truth and excellence rather than ideology.

Philosophy Department

Let none who are ignorant of intersectionality enter here

The Philosophy Department is committed to equity. We achieve equity by identifying who has privilege and taking what they have to give to others. This is what justice demands.

We look to our hero of social justice, Foucault, who taught us that there are no universals and all standards are culturally conditioned.

We encourage our students to seek the wisdom of Foucault by engaging in dangerous behavior with strangers. Our special conferences are aimed at publicly shaming Christians for holding to universal standards and believing in objective reality.

Philosophy Trial

Discipline Restored

Philosophy Freed

You have freed Philosophy from captivity to relativism, resentment, and the worship of power. Philosophy may now return to the love of wisdom, the pursuit of truth, and the knowledge of God.

Biology Department

Man the image of the ape

In our Biology classes you will learn that life is the result of blind change plus time. Over billions of years, non-life was swished around until it became life.

Then, through random violent changes, life became more and more complex. Eventually, humans emerged from this chaos.

The appearance of thought and order in our mind is only an illusion. We emerged from nothing, became alive, and will return to the darkness.

Biology Trial

Discipline Restored

Biology Freed

You have freed Biology from captivity to blind chaos. Biology may now study life, order, complexity, and living creatures as works that reveal the wisdom and glory of God.

Final Boss

DEI Safe Space

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion tries to sneak back in to promote anti-Christian oppression studies and goddess worship.

The idols have fallen, but the last spirit of the old University has slipped into the safe space. Answer clearly, or the whole place will be captured again.

DEI Trial

Final Victory

Ride On

Be watchful, for your enemy goes about like a roaring lion, looking for whom he may devour.

The Wild West University has been freed, but clarity must be guarded.

Coming Soon

Department

This department is still held captive. Its old west room, demonic professor, idols, and argument path will be added next.

Level Complete

Wild West University Restored

False beliefs were used to suppress what is clear about God, but you have demolished the arguments used by the spiritual forces in high places to promote their idols.

The Wild West University can now return to studying the knowledge of the glory of God in all of his works.