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Friday, August 22, 2014

The Theory of Divine Relativity: Nothing Exceeds the Speed of One

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Good definition of orthoparadox: "For the Christian the truth is in tension between certain contrary propositions." Thus, "...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Snicking Suspicions and Absolute Stupidity

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For many months now, I've been intending to get back to Hartshorne and to my modified neotraditional vision of his process theology -- s...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Reality: A Spiraling Vertical Space Between Two Infinite Mirrors

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Remystification of the world is more of a negative capability than a positive one: you just have to stop pretending, assoul. Negative ca...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Magical Mystery & Tragical History

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I could complain about having no time again this morning, but that would just be a waste of what little time I do have, wouldn't it? Ma...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

What Untamed Envy Looks Like

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No time for a post today, and possibly tomorrow. But here's a timely aphorism by Dávila: "The worst demagogues are not recruited ...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

President Wormwood and Professor Screwtape

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If, as implied in The Screwtape Letters , "demons themselves are teachers," then teachers are -- or can be -- demonic. I mean, ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Laughing Our Way to the Brink

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"With good humor and pessimism it is possible to be neither wrong nor bored" (Dávila). Which explains why the earnest do-gooders ...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Divine Comedy, Stand-Up Cosmology, Suicide

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What is the nature of that little by which we may know much ? We'll let that one percolate awhile in the nonconscious and come back ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

In Order to Know Much, You Must Know Little

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To paraphrase something Richard Weaver said, in order to know much, we must know little. This indeed is the purpose of a liberal educati...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

Meta-Cosmic Ignorance and the Left Wing Ignorantsia

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This single aphorism is almost too packed with implications to explicate in the brief time available this morning: "The tacit presuppo...
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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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