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Friday, January 17, 2014

Living the Lie and Dying to Truth

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"There is something in genuine myth that is analogous to our stories of what transpires between conception and the acquisition of langu...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

In. The. Beginning.

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What I meant to say yesterday but never quite got around to is that psychoanalytic theory -- specifically, developmental psychoanalysis -- h...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Life Itself is a Mid-Life Crisis

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Warning: this post took off in unanticipated and possibly fruitless directions, so don't get your hopes up. We're digging beneath...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Theology vs. Theophagy: Shut Up and Let's Eat!

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Somehow yesterday's post vanished from the internet. So here it is, followed by today's offering: I don't always have time to ...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

One Truth, One Cosmos, One Transdimensional Lodge

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Warning: this highly praised book on the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation is a bit of a slog. Which is unfortunate, ...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Trouble in Paradise: In Spite of My Awesomeness, I'm Still a Little Narcissistic

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It seems that dogmatic and mystical theology have often been regarded as antagonistic, when they should be seen as complementary. They are ...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Slowing Time and Standing Fast

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If this post seems different, it's because it's the first time I've tried to write one standing up as straight as a post. For...
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Monday, January 06, 2014

Go Out of Your Mind and Come Back to Your Senses

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Chaos this morning. Grumpy boy back to school + painters and tilers, the latter making big noise with their angry saw. We'll do what w...
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Friday, January 03, 2014

History: Wall or Bridge?

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If time has its problems, then history is like time on stilts or steroids or stuck on stupid. However, like time, history must have an up...
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Thursday, January 02, 2014

The Proper Use of Sick Time

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We left off, more or less, with Berdyaev's diagnosis of, and prognosis for, our timeboundedness: that time recovered from its illness i...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Cause and Cure of Time

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Again, there are two forms of time; or at least time has its two vectors, one toward dissolution and decay, the other toward growth and cre...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

Time and its Alternatives

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It doesn't take long to lose the plot, does it? A few days in ordinary time and one quickly becomes disoriented. So let's see if w...
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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Life of Brian, Death of Saul, Confessions of Augustine

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I suppose there are some individual differences even among lesser species, in particular, social animals. But those differences don't a...
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