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Friday, August 08, 2014

Thank God for Accidental Things!

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Dávila (Don Colacho) has many aphorisms that go to the idea that genuine happiness is something that cannot be planned. Rather, a key eleme...
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Thursday, August 07, 2014

Myth, Science, Scientific Myth, and Myths of Science

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Myth can be thought of as a medium of the imagination; for Don Colacho, it is "not a premature science of the universe, but a specific...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Cosmic Shrinkage: From Wisdom to Knowledge to Facts to Stupidity to Liberalism

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Here is an elementary cosmic bifurcation, expressed with maximum concision: "The nominalist lives among facts. The realist lives amon...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Full Faith and Credit in the First Bank of Reality (or, Never Take an Intellectual Check from a Liberal)

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Notice how Don Colacho's aphorisms alternate between the highest reaches of spirit and the lowest circle of politics, or between reality...
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Monday, August 04, 2014

Stay Thirsty My, Friends. Better Yet, Just Stay on Fire and the Thirst will Take Care of Itself.

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"The Bible is not the voice of God but that of the man who encounters him" (by the way, this is one of the places from which I co...
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Sunday, August 03, 2014

The Cold Hard Facts of Music

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1. Only in the last few years have I discovered the quirky greatness of Porter Wagoner. He had a syndicated TV show when I was a kid, but ...
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Friday, August 01, 2014

Okay, Just Link to this Post Already!

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Sometimes I *almost* think it's the convoluted titles that drive people away: "Encircling the Adversary in Metavangelism." Wh...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Encircling the Adversary in Metavangelism

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To remind the reader where our head has been lately, it has been exploring the question of reimagineering tradition in general and Christian...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Reality: Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later

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"The challenge to Christians in any age," writes Moore , "is to reinterpret the common mind in new circumstances, and to appl...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

God: 'I Am the Imaginator'

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While we're on the subject of imagination, I thought I'd consult some of the elders, beginning with Webster. There is a very long e...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Anonypalooza

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I can see by the unforgiving clock on the wall that a new post is not in the offing. So, the best we can manage is a tweet or two. Meanwhi...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

Flying into Reality on Wings of Imagination

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A purely "scientific" philosophy ends by denying what we know to be true... --Eliot Cardinal Newman spoke of the illative sense ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Reimagineering the World

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So, I think we might have stumbled upon what is perhaps the key to it all: the imagination. Unfortunately, that word has the wrong connota...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Militarizing the Space of Imagination

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Back when Bob was a carefree bachelor, he had this roommate who was an epic stoner. We lived on the beach in a three bedroom condo, and bot...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Nice Dreams. Wrong Father.

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One important point about reality that rationalists overlook is that it is a function of imagination ; or, in the absence of the imaginativ...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

The One Minute Raccoon

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No, one cannot become a Raccoon in one minute. Rather, less than a minute, since Raccoons are born, not made. What I mean is that I have...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

Cosmic Leveling and the Animalization of Man

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Leveling is the barbarian's substitute for order. --Aphorisms of Don Colacho As mentioned a few posts back, one of the general tenets ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Why I Am Right and Everyone Else is Wrong

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Continuing with yesterday's post, we were talking about the Science of the Real, or of the highest Metacosmic Truths accessible to commo...
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