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Friday, March 31, 2017

Reasoning is Believing, Seeing is Knowing, Being is Loving

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Where are we? As mentioned a few weeks ago, I've been rereading some of Schuon's late works, which strike me as quite compressed and...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Roads to Hell & Heaven

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If this weren't the case, then the Democratic party would be out of business. But this ...
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Monday, March 27, 2017

Misbegotten Duties and Vital Irresponsibilities

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Programming alert: probably no posts tomorrow and Wednesday. In addition to my regular responsibilities, I am the substitute home schooler...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Can God Crank it Up to Eleven?

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Speaking of contingency, I was just reviewing Aquinas's five proofs of God, the third one being the argument from contingency. Let...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

God is a Giant Disco Ball, and Other Truisms

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Since we can think of nothing better to do, we've been flipping through one of Schuon's later collections of essays, The Play of Mas...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

God and Creation, Separate but Equivalent

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Yet another writing-out-loud post. Rambling and self-indulgent? I don't know. Maybe. Christian metaphysics holds that God creates ...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Appearance and Reality, Dark and Light, Man and God

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When I have nothing to say, as is the case this morning, I just start typing. The following is what came out, so I apologize in advance if i...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Variations on a Theme of Reality

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More variations on a theme of Schuon. But I ended up having little time to improvise on it. Too many distractions. In any event, first t...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

The Good News: Ye Are Gods! The Bad News: Ye Are Gods!

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As you all know by now, I am fascinated by the idea that God creates man "in Our image, according to Our likeness" -- not just for...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

The Inane Reciprocity of the Liberal House of Mirrors

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Here's a provocative claim: "Without objectivity and transcendence there cannot be man, there is only the human animal; to find ma...
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Monday, March 13, 2017

Beautiful Monsters, Righteous Swindles, and Privileged Malcontents

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Where are we? In the overall scheme of things, I mean. While our posts may take their time getting there, they usually have a deeper point...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Intelligence is Not Enough

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In the essay Prerogatives of the Human State , Schuon outlines an intriguing little schematic vis-a-vis our humanness. Recall that man is p...
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Thursday, March 09, 2017

Barking Up the Right Tree

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I suppose it's easy to get confused, being that man can know stuff that only a god could know. For example, man knows we inhabit a cosm...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Equal How?

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That all men are created equal obviously cannot mean that they are equivalent. If that were the case, then we would be justified in treatin...
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Monday, March 06, 2017

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident Yada Yada

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Over the weekend I read Randy Barnett's Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People , which cover...
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Friday, March 03, 2017

Flat and Explosive

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Almost time to move on to the next subject, except I don't really have a particular subject in mind. Let's conclude our little in...
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