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Friday, October 17, 2014

Secular Myth and Religious Science

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"The simplest truth about man," writes Chesterton , "is that he is a very strange being." Just as it is impossible to...
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

A Mirror, Wrapped in a Space, Inside a Cave

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If we find a turtle on top of a fencepost, we can be sure it didn't get there by itself. And if we stumble upon a painting, we know it ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Slow Motion Miracles

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Continuing with the spirit of yesterday's post -- which everyone agrees was much too short -- we are batting around the idea that man is...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Man: Miracle or Monster?

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Hmm. As our president is fond of saying of his Straw Man of the Day, I reject this false choice! I read Chesterton's The Everlasting ...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

A Word of Silence

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In honor of Indigenous People's Day there will be no post today, since indigenous Americans didn't have writing. Besides, I have to...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Man's Perfect Incompleteness

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About that hole in the center of man: again, it is unlike anything else found in all of nature. No one expects a pig to be a better pig. ...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014

Lost Time is Not Found Again. Unless...

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Well, the happiness seminar turned out to be even more unhappy than I had imagined. I brought along some Theological Anthropology to keep ...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Wise Men From the Yeast

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It happens every other October: I wait until the last minute to complete my (dis)continuing education units. Therefore, I'll be at an ...
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Monday, October 06, 2014

Cosmic Podiatry

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I think it's appropriate to pause a moment and reflect on ten nine years of the One Cosmos blog, what with a seemingly endless trail --...
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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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