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Friday, October 26, 2012

Finding Your Polar Bearings in Swampland

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For the sake of continuity, let's continue with Mouravieff 's discussion of what he calls "polar beings" (male and female)...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Rising and Falling on the Axis of Eve

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Eroticism, sensuality, and love, when they do not converge in the same person, are nothing more, in isolation, than a disease, a vice, and ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Human and Subhuman Sexuality

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Let's begin where we left off yesterday. Yes, let's talk about love , both human and divine. First of all, love obviously requir...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Living Beyond the Boundaries of Time and Space

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One must live for the moment and for eternity. Not for the disloyalty of time . -- Don Colacho's Aphorisms Our lives are bracketed b...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Compulsory Miseducation and Ontological Duty

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To review: we've been sporadically discussing the meaning of the person -- or of the whole category of Personhood as such. Assisting u...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

What is Man that Man Should be Mindful of Him?

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I have hardly any time this morning, and no time tomorrow, as I have to attend another continuing education seminar. So all you get is this...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lies Burn: Yelling Fire in a Clouded World

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Before we were interrupted by unforeseen events -- and there is nothing quite so unforeseen as an event -- we were discussing the compleme...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Will the Human Memome Project Lead to a Cure for Socialism?

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We left off yesterday with Billington wondering whether the political religions of the left might someday "prove to be only a stage in...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Once Upon a Time There was a President

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This week should bring some brief periods of patchy slackshine, but no sustained episodes of time dilation or vertical belowback. Therefore...
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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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