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Friday, April 15, 2016

Real Selves and Worthless Cultures

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When you think about it, having no center equates to having no self, or at least not a stable one. And now that I'm thinking about it...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

A Miscaste in the White House

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So, there is the priestly/intellective caste and the royal/warrior caste. In India, I believe the idea was that society is like a human bod...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Infertile Eggheads & Hero Sumbitches

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Schuon's discussion of the man with no center -- touched on in yesterday's post -- is in the context of an essay on the spiritual a...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Liberalism: An Infinitely Valuable Doctrine for Infinitely Worthless People

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Speaking of man's deiformity, it is precisely this that gives man his value, his dignity, and his purpose, since without it he is just a...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Science and Jehovial Witticisms

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Went to a library book sale over the weekend and picked up five books for a buck each, including this one called The Natural History of Crea...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

I Am the True Wine

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Picking up right where we left off yesterday -- with Eckhart -- the Meistero claims that "Nowhere does God dwell more properly than in...
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Thursday, April 07, 2016

Things That Cannot Not Be

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Continuing with the keys to the damn world enigma, AKA "the principles that determine everything else" ( Schuon ). These principl...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

The Keys to the Damn World Enigma

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In Schuon's To Have a Center there is a very short chapter -- just under four pages -- called Fundamental Keys . Since I don't hav...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Vote Lovertarian

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Just flipping through Love Alone is Credible and I see this interesting observation: only with Jesus' own "abandonment by God...
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Monday, April 04, 2016

Christianity: The Divine Comedy Club

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In another book by Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible , he suggests that "if God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world...
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Friday, April 01, 2016

Oh, Grow Up

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Not sure if this post goes anywhere. I'm still courageously laboring under this man flu. Nevertheless, let's continue with Balthas...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

And the Weird Became Flesh

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Just a short post, because I have a cold... As you know, I regard the neurologically immature human infant as the hinge of pneumacosmic evo...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Vertical Church of the Live Grenade

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Speaking of wounded Gods, I was thinking the other day of how mankind's blows to Jesus are like the last word in... jewjitsu, in that th...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

"The Wounded God"

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popped into my head this morning. Let's try to find out what why. In the essay by Schuon cited yesterday, he defines Homo sapiens as...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

If You Don't Have a Question You Can't Have an Answer, and If You Don't Have a Wound You Can't be Healed

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So, man is a perpetual question mark (?) before God. What is he then in the absence of God? A question, yes, but a literally unanswerabl...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Truth and Incarnotion

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I say that -- "incarnotion" -- because I'm reading in Balthasar how Christian contemplation is really a kind of enfleshment o...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

In My Womb

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I think I'll try to do a short and concentrated post even when I don't have time to do a more sprawling and diffuse one. Like today...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The Absolute Relative Absolute

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Continuing with yesterday's discussion of faith as making a space for knowledge, Bion doesn't regard it (faith) as mere passive forg...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

So, What Did You Learn From All that Education? O, Nothing

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I just wanted to finish up my little review of the prolix pentalogy of Balthasar books I've recently read. As I mentioned in a comment,...
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Listening Past the Grooveyard

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For some reason, I've been reading a lot of Balthasar lately. However, he is so windy and turgid that it just ended up adding to my ong...
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