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The Cosmos is our school, The Intellect our Faculty, Truth the first Principal
Last night in church they sang the song What Child is This?, set to the tune of Greensleeves, which made me wish for John Coltrane's deconstructed modal version, with the lights turned low and maybe an open bar:
Also, while I'm not gay, I do love the Carpenters:
And like Coltrane, they did a fine version of My Favorite Things, although theirs is rather more conventional than his:
Nevertheless, if Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then I say this is Christmas song:
I cannot talk about anything without talking about everything. --Chesterton
Fundamentally there are only three miracles: existence, life, intelligence; with intelligence, the curve springing from God closes on itself like a ring that in reality has never been parted from the Infinite. --Schuon
The quest, thus, has no external 'object,' but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable, through the Cosmos, to the ineffable. --Voegelin
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. --Wittgenstein
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Merry Christmas to all of you!
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