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Monday, November 19, 2012

Peeping Thomists and Mysterious Keyholes

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So man is a (?!) to himself, to which many answers are possible, if not plausible. Any even modestly deep thinker intuits that there is n...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Man: Putting the Quest in Question

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I know, I know, enough with the throat-clearing. Let's get on with it! The problem I'm having is that I don't yet feel quali...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Secret Plan of the Tenured to Torture Readers Revealed!

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I don't mean to complain so much, but one of the difficulties with this book -- Foundations of the Christian Faith -- is that it's ...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Bigger the Mansion, the Deeper the Foundation

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I remember reading that Schuon, although German was his mother tongue, preferred to write in French, because he found it much more conducive...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Beginner's Guide to the End of All Existence, or Unfathomable Depth for Dummies

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Because of last week's annoying vexcitement, I've lost the plot again and wouldn't know where to find it if I tried. Male-femal...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

I Died for What?!

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This is a continuation of Friday's post. But it's Veteran's Day, isn't it? So let's consider what follows in light of ...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Looking for a Few Good Übermen

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For you SubGenius readers out there (and there's obviously an überlap between Raccoons and SubGenii), I think this would be a good time...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Gagdad's Greatest Hates

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Since we all seem to be in a nabka ish frame of mind -- and since I don't have much time -- I thought I'd revisit the Cosmos of Nove...
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Thursday, November 08, 2012

I'd Rather Have a Battle in Front of Me than a Frontal Lobotomy

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I was reading this sobering editorial by Melanie Phillips, which highlights all of the reasons to dread the future which began stalking us ...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

S.N.A.F.U.

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Well, that will be Petey's last prediction for awhile -- or at least the last one I'll take seriously. Get this: now he's bl...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Strange Things are Afoot: Malicious Software in the Human Brainframe

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So, I think we've established that the body -- AKA Brother Ass -- is Not Guilty by reason of mental incompetence. Rather, the body (to ...
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Monday, November 05, 2012

Madness!

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We were discussing the Two Natures or tendencies that seem to coexist in man, one lower, the other higher. Here again, we all realize -- ...
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Friday, November 02, 2012

Earthers & Lumin Beings

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Can we not all agree that man is possessed of no less than two natures? I guess not. Anyone on the secular atheistic/scientistic side of...
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Thursday, November 01, 2012

Veils and Brutes, Whores and Bullies

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Amazing what putting one little naughty word into the title does for one's traffic, as indicated by the spike on the right side of the c...
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