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Friday, October 03, 2014

Who Was that Unmasked Man?!

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Since we're on the subject of time, here is a timely aphorism of Don Colacho: Time should be feared less because it kills than because ...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014

A Day in the Life of God: Three Chords Good!

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Another problem I have with divine omniscience as usually understood is that it is as if the three modes of time -- past, present, and futur...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

The Cosmic Redemption Center

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"Pride prevents intelligence become rationalism from rising to its source" (Schuon). Rather, in denying its source -- which is bo...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

With God All Things Are... Necessary?

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A small error slipped past our editor in yesterday's post: I said I was plagiarizing with Schuon's Logic and Transcendence , when I...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

Liberalism and the Duty to be Cosmically Stupid

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Interesting case of what we might call applied nominalism: "By listing and sometimes inventing names for small Islamist splinter gr...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

A Window on the World, a Mirror of Reality, a Ladder to God

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Apropos of yesterday's post on the mental slavery of feminism, it seems that folks these days are in need of liberation from liberation ...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Why are Feminists Such Pussies?

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We are batting around this idea of a Cosmic Orthodoxy. If there were a Cosmic Orthodoxy -- a correct way to think and to act -- life sure w...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Cosmic Heresies and their Alternative

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In the Aristotle/Thomist tradition, the function of the intellect is to essentially identify form in substance -- to "pull" univer...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

A Manichee in the White House

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People correctly intuit that truth must be simple, which is why they so often seem to organize themselves around a simple -- but incorrect...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

A Liberal is a Man Who Can Prove Everything and Nothing

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While perusing this piece this morning at Ace of Spades, a thought occurred to me: I don't have time for a post . Then another thou...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

The Dreary Pursuit of Pleasure and the Joyful Pursuit of Truth

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I've been reading Volume 2 of Chesterton's collected works, which includes The Everlasting Man and his biographies of Saints Franc...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Trapped by Clarity, Liberated by Person-ality

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Once again insophicient time for a fully half-baked post. Since it is Mrs. G's birthday, I magnanimously volunteered to transport the B...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Obama or Bust

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Didn't get far with this, and now I have to get some work done. Bad traffic taking the boy to school, which is why Obama needs to give ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

On the Centrality and Triviality of Politics

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Sometimes even I can't help thinking I am degrading the higher things by associating them with the festering sump hole of politics. H...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

A Fearless Search for the Ultimate Cause of Our Nausea

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Very little time this AM -- so little that I had to abbreviate morning as "AM." Continuing with Friday's post, it seems axiom...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

God Made Me a Loser!

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"What better way to feed subjectivist belief," asks Rizzi , "than to propound that their belief is given by science?" ...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Reality Before Reality and the We Before I

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The first principle of the science before science is that "the world exists independent of us and of our understanding." You...
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