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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

A Completely Selfish Post

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When I'm stumped about what to write about, it's usually for the same reason: I forget about the purpose of this blog. Which, you ...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

Very Important Persons and Very Inflated Presidents

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In our previous post we touched on the complementarity of universal and particular. There is an irresolvable tension between these poles ...
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Friday, October 05, 2012

The Joy of Unknowing

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It cannot have been easy for early Christians. First of all they weren't yet Christians, but rather, deviant messianic Jews. Except th...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Banging the Boards with Your Cosmic Big Man

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As children develop, it is as if certain neurological windows open for the purpose of imprinting various things, e.g., speech, attachment, ...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012

¡¿ Out of This World ?!

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The world is not of this world. Or, the world has an exit out of itself. This exit is called Man. You no doubt recall page 181 , where ma...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Spending Time Out of Time in a Space Out of Space

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We're still meditating on the Beginning and the Beyond, two constructs that are trickier than common usage would suggest. To put it blu...
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Monday, October 01, 2012

Why Does the Question of Why the World Exists Exist?

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I'm not sure I adequately conveyed what Voegelin means by the terms "beginning" and "beyond." Think of other animal...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

The Beginning and the Beyond

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Or Ground and Telos, Origin and Destiny, Source and Vector, Creation and Salvation, Center and Top, Depth and Height, Order and Direction. ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Fantasies Have Consequences: Egoic Expansion and Presidential Shrinkage

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So, yesterday Newt Gingrich suggested that Obama is “not a real president.”

 Rather, he's a fantasy figure playing a fantasy role, in...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Secondhand Know-it-Alls and Third-Rate Believers

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Last night I caught a few moments of an interview of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Piers Morgan. I know. The unspeakable and the insufferable. T...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

High Frequency God Whistles

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No time for a new post and hardly enough time for an old one, bearing in mind that I can never simply exhumine my precogitated bloggerel wit...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

When Narratives Fail

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It's too bad the term "narrative" is being beaten to death, because it's such an important concept. I'm afraid it...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Ten Things Every Educated Human Needs to Know

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People love lists. I just typed "the ten" at amazon and the autofill does the rest: "faces of innovation," "most b...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Rodeo Clown Media and their Crazed Bull

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One of the primary functions of the Rodeo Clown Media (RCM) is to obsess over the periphery while systematically ignoring the center. Some...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Playing Faust & Loose with the Facts of Existence

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Although I still believe Romney will win easily in November -- mainly because polsters cannot capture just how eager we are to oust the Inco...
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