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Friday, November 06, 2015

The Top Ten Commandments of Nihilism

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Today is Friday, which is the day we trundle down into the knowa's arkive and see what we can find. Today I tripped over an old box lab...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

On Speaking Truth to Freedom and Freedom to Power

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In a diabolical subversion, the left has managed to use the power of the state -- which is founded on certain a priori truths -- to deny th...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2015

A Presidential Pestavus to the Restavus

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Time only for a brief one... As usual, one book comments on another, in this case the secret of liberty on the order of love . Yesterda...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Freedom is Founded on the Love of Truth and Truth of Love

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Let's begin this morning with an orthoparadox: "First of all," writes Schindler , "we belong to the truth before the tru...
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Monday, November 02, 2015

The Great Sin is in NOT Wanting to Be Like God

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Adam. Eve. Freedom. God presumably likes being God. What's wrong with our vertical parents wanting the same for themselves? Doesn...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Our Cosmic Drama: It's Weird, but is it Weird Enough?

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The book we're discussing -- Ordering Love -- takes seriously the idea that love is the ultimate order of the cosmos. If God is a rela...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Man Minus God = Death On Two Legs

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More spindle clearing, this time a book by theologian David Schindler called Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God . The ...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Point of It All

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As mentioned a few posts back, I'm just trying to clear my spindle, in this case, Schuon's first and rather more challenging book, P...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

Grace is a Finger Pointing to its Source

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We've been discussing the Orthodox approach to atonement and salvation, which got me to reminiscing about my first exposure to these ide...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

The Liberal Triumph of Disease Over Health

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As some commenters pointed out yesterday, type C theology -- which also predates types A and B -- has always been the emphasis in the Orthod...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

History and Incarnation: Why Bother?

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Here's a book from which I had been hoping a bit more, Christian Thought Revisited: Three Types of Theology . It didn't quite provi...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Known World is the World Known

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Remember in school, where they didn't teach you what to think, but how to think? To quote Hillary Clinton tomorrow, "I have no...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Feminists Earn a Dollar for Each Hour of Eternity Squandered

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I forget where I saw it -- probably at Happy Acres -- and exactly what it said, but something to the effect that there are people who long f...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

The Cosmic Structure of Man's Eternal Fuck Up

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Last Friday I forgot the new program, which involves a weekly descent below dreck into the living hull of the knowa's arkive and pulling...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Give Liberals a Child to the Age of 27, and They Will Give You Back a Bigger Child

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You know the old gag -- "give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." The left has taken that to heart, minus ...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

God is Not Seen, But the Means of Seeing

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There is of course a proper kind of humanism and a healthy form of liberalism that go something like this: they give men "the freedom ...
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