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Friday, September 16, 2016

Homo Bangians and the New World

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"With the advent of man," says Polanyi, "a whole new world of meanings burst into view." Absent this extraordinary Bang...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Psychic Vomitoreum of Politics

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Continuing with our Dual Track Theory of Mind and Everything Else, the next place I stumbled upon the concept was in the works of psychoanal...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Liberalism and Hyper-Psychosis

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I'm not sure I remember when I first came across the idea of a Dual Track Mind, but it's definitely a thing, because it has subseque...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Just Sipping Coffee while Sifting the Ruins of Liberalism

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No time for a post. As a consolation prize, how about a few aphorisms that you can easily develop into whole posts inside the privacy of yo...
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Monday, September 12, 2016

The Energy Crisis of Leftist Thought

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It seems that tension is everything; or that in the absence of tension, nothing can happen. For example, the other day I overheard the w...
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Friday, September 09, 2016

This Morning I Am a Man!

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"The first thing that should strike man" -- the Man in the title above -- "when he reflects on the nature of the Universe...
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Thursday, September 08, 2016

It Takes One to Know Oneness

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Yesterday we spoke of the experience of being penetrated by truth: there is truth and there is the experience, but how do we know we aren...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Utterly Personal and Completely Universal

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A few posts back we mentioned a new scientific discovery pushing back the emergence of life on earth from 3.5 to 3.7 billion years ago. E...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

A Mind Needs Truth Like a Feminist Needs the Patriarchy

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To put it another way -- in reference to what God owes us -- it cannot be that he is so irresponsible as to, as it were, create cats with no...
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Monday, September 05, 2016

What God Owes Man

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Knowledge is always personal , whether the knowledge in question is scientific or religious. Probably neither side likes the sound of that,...
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Friday, September 02, 2016

The Cheap Splendor of Liberal Lies

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There is no way to know with certainty that we have "made contact with reality." Even if all other knowers agree with us we could...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

One Man's Floor is Another Man's Ceiling

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Yesterday we came to the surprising conclusion that not only is a good problem already implicit foreknowledge of its solution, but that all ...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Endless Search for Questions to Our Answers

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Reader Ted alerts us to this piece by Robert Barron on why the Catholic church continues to bleed souls: "for every one person who jo...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Middle Earth and the Cosmic Palace

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It just popped into my head that "middle earth" would be a good name for the imaginal world discussed yesterday. Again, there i...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

The Direction of Truth

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Meaning "is always lost, sometimes for good, when in order to inspect them [tacit particulars] focally, attempts are made to withdraw o...
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Friday, August 26, 2016

What Does Meaning Mean?

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"The modern mind must continue to work its own destruction," says Polanyi, "so long as it fails to reach a vision of itself -...
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