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Monday, July 28, 2025

Brain Delay

Ever get the feeling you've nothing left to say? And don't feel like saying it? I do, once or twice a year. That's when I give up blogging once and for all, like in the fall of 2005, two months after starting the blog. If a man can't say all he has to say in two months, then--

Wordiness is not an excess of words, but a dearth of ideas.

The deluded are prolix.

In each post I try to present ideas as concisely as possible. It just looks prolix, because there are 5,300 posts. Still, it would be nice to boil it all down to a series of aphorisms, maybe even numbered, so one can ascend stepwise from one truth to the next. Let me think about how to do that and get back to you....

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  1. Ever get the feeling you've nothing left to say? And don't feel like saying it?

    Yes, I know that feeling. Sometimes pure inactive Slack is in order.

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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