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Friday, August 29, 2014

Crapostolic Regression and the Satanic Magisterium

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Any idiot can make history, but it takes a real genius to mess it up to this extent. To quote the maestro, "Those who live in the twil...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Obama is Not Failing History. History has Failed Obama

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Bad news: Obama is failing History 101 , and it looks like he won't even be able to pull an affirmative action mascot's D, let alon...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

I Smell Trouble

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More bad news for Obama: "No one should take himself seriously. Only hope to be taken seriously" (Dávila). Interestingly, Dávi...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

On the Function of the Negro in the White Liberal Imagination

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It's always good to start the day with a breakfast aphorism or two: "Superficiality consists in hatred for the contradictions of l...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

A Stranger on My Own Home Planet

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Yes, remystification is a good thing. It is what the Raccoon strives for. However, this is to be sharply distinguished from mere mystifica...
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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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