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Friday, July 03, 2015

Memoirs of a Frivolous Man

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Well, this is heartening: "I forget most of what I have read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute ...
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Thursday, July 02, 2015

Life Beside the Point

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Retracing our steps back to where we started yesterday, we were discussing Dávila's Annotations on an Implicit Text , but couldn't g...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Non-doodling in the Margin between Man and God

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Dávila called his aphorisms Annotations on an Implicit Text ; "annotations" is a much better translation than "scholia,...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Tough Times Call for Tough Aphorisms

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To be born in the United States is to have won the cosmic lottery. However, the left is not only oblivious to this pleasant fact, but deter...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

Dispassionate Hatred

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Picking up the theme from yesterday's brief post, it is not as if life without the left would somehow be paradise. Rather, the problem ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

How to Survive the New Dark Ages

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A longtime reader has asked me for advice on how to cope with the new Dark Age we are living through. I am sure he speaks for dozens when h...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

The Supreme Court Does the Impossible

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Not sure where we left off, but then again, I will align myself with the gentleman from Colombia, who says... he says a few choice things, a...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Pecking at the Inside of the Cosmic Egg

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It just now popped into my head that perhaps there's a connection between unity/totality and Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Humans Hear a Who

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Unity and totality. What are they, and where do they come from? A totality without unity would be just a blob, while unity without total...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Liberalism and Other Spiritual Abortifacients

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Every psychologist has his pet developmental theory, but when you get right down to it, one could say human development has only two stages:...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

Eh, Whatever

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That kind of mood. So, open thread.
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

What Would Churchill Say?

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Depressing. Now I know what Israelis must have felt like when one of their citizens opened fire in a mosque in 1994, murdering 29 Palestini...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The Church's Greatest Scientific Blunder Since the Galileo Affair

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So, not only has Pope Francis bought into the most ginormous scientific bubble in all of history, but now he's doing his best to inflate...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Wit and Wisdom of Churchill vs. the Twaddling Twititude of Obama

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One last thing I want to say about bubbles, and then I'll move on. Wallison mentions a crack by Warren Buffet to the effect that you c...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Subprime People and Intellectual Bubbles

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There are two mysteries that loom above all others, God and person. This is because in their absence there would be no mysteries at all: n...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

Man: The Only Animal Obligated to Adapt to Himself

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Whether we like it or not, we live surrounded by mysteries, which logically and existentially draw us toward transcendence . -- Schuon ...
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