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Friday, April 03, 2015

Mind-Matter Dualism and Incarnational Trialism

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Come to think of it, we can't blame Descartes for everything . After all, there's the rest of the world. It has always been a trai...
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Thursday, April 02, 2015

Abstractions, Nightmares, and the Frustrated Gods of the Left

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While the old brain is warming up, let's review. Yesterday we figured out that Descartes has been ruining everybody's lives and eat...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

The Adversary's Solution to the Mind-Matter Conundrum: Divide and Conquer

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I was out late last night, and now I'm tired. Therefore, this will not be a challenging post. I'm not up for any deep pondering. ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Creation is a Gift, and There's Not a Damn Thing We Can Do About It

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I'm reading a book that's pulling together a lot of loose strands of the cosmic area rug, called Heart of the World, Center of the C...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Looking for God Between the Syntactical Trees and the Semantic Forest

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Or, between words and meaning; or more generally, symbols and symbolized. Consider: "It is possible to know every word in the dictio...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

One Out of Two Universes Ends in Divorce

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Last week we spoke of those convenient points of reverence that sound "a note from the external senses and [resonate] throughout the in...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Random Inspiration and Haphazard Creativity

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Lately, for some reason -- maybe you've noticed -- I've had even less of an agenda than usual. No plan whatsoever. Yes, it's c...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Scripture: IT'S ALIVE!!!

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In-spiration means God-breathed, or theopneumatic. It would appear that man qua man is theopneumatic, in that what distinguishes us from th...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Open Your Door to the Love Explosion!

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Ever since I referred to that point about points of reference, I've been seeing it everywhere. Sheed, for example, asks "how can t...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Time on Steroids

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The cosmos itself furnishes little points of reverence everywhere: "Suddenly, in the illumination of poetic light," objects in th...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Points of Reverence for Mapping God

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I have long contended that, just as there is an unconscious below, there is an unconscious above. It is not as if our ego-island merely flo...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

If This Brain is Rockin', Don't Bother Knockin'

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Time only for a brief evocation. You'll have to read between the lines and fill in the details. Picking up where we ended yesterday --...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

I Think I Sort of Disagree

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Vanderleun has alerted me to a piece by David Warren called Flatman Rising . He's very forceful in his assertions, but are these asser...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

The Purposeless-Driven Life

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Those who wish to make a point of their lives don't remember the exhilaration of not having one, AKA holy infanity, in which life is its...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Any Idiot Can Pulverize a Statue, but It Takes a Real Genius to Create Ugly Art

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How do we attain knowledge of something, anyway? How is it even possible? It is possible because "the soul recognize[s] in material o...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

You Must Be Dreaming!

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Yes, it takes all kinds to make a world. But what if the world only permits one kind -- as on college campuses, or in the NFM (non-Fox medi...
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