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Friday, September 10, 2010

Anonymous Light and Personal Darkness

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Ever repeatedly encounter a term you'd never heard of before? Happened to me last week. The first time was in the Balthasar book refer...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

The Cosmic Covenant

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One of the images I used in my book was of a once-unified mankind -- after all, there may have been only a few hundred of us -- venturing ou...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

What Kind of Dog is Obama?

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Just an excuse for an open thread: what kind of dog is Obama? (Compiled from Lucianne commenters): TelePointer TeleprompTerrier CHE-huahu...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

A Dumptruck to Unload My Head

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Another shitegeyser of random barrel scrapings. I don't know if it helps anyone else, but it certainly helps me to reduce the clutter o...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

Are You Threadening Me?!

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Someone suggested that when we approach 100 comments I should issue another threat. Here it is: If you read any further, prepare yourself ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Open Threat

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A reader has requested an open threat. Here it is: buy the book or you'll never see this blog again . Oh, thread . Sorry. Others have...
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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Van Morrison and the Technique of How to Live

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Whenever I read I highlight, but in a peculiar way. I don't highlight for facts or ideas. Rather, I only highlight things that, for wh...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Cosmic Evolution and the Third Bang

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Again, the emergence of man was either the ultimate Black Swan -- meaning the most inconceivable thing one can possible conceive -- or there...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Darwinian Tower of Monkey Babble

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We left off with Ridley 's observation that "there appeared on earth a new kind of hominid, one that refused to play by the rules. ...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Creation Myths of the Tenured

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Without a doubt, the ultimate Black Swan is whatever it was that permitted merely genetic human beings to emerge into full humanness just ye...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Post-Biological Evolution and the Colonization of Subjective Space

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In Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves , he posits a theory for why things are always getting so much better. W...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

When Narratives Attack

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Everybody's got one. A narrative, that is. For reasons we will get into later, human beings are narrative-producing machines. Narrativ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Painting With Sound, Playing With Color

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It's Music/Open Thread Saturday, but no particular topic or direction comes to mind. I was flipping through a few books, and found this...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Survival of the Luckiest

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Well, I finished The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable . Although it started off fresh and compelling, it flamed out about ...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

It's a Mixed Up Muddled Up Shook Up World

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Are animals free? From our point of view they aren't, but compared to rocks and trees they are -- which is to say that they manifest a ...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Playing Dice with the Cosmos and Taking a Chance on God

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In our ongoing discussion of divine and human freedom, we left off with the orthoparadoxical idea that we live in a world which is good in t...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Give Us This Day Our Daily Slack, As We Cut Some Slack to Others

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Reviewing where we left off: "there are different levels 'within' God. It is not just God and World, although this can be a u...
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