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Friday, April 28, 2017

Bad News About the Good News

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Maybe I have nothing to say because I've been dabbling in Kierkegaard , who would say that saying nothing is preferable to saying much o...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Celestial Living in the Sublunary World

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In lieu of a hiatus, maybe I'll just continue with shortish posts for awhile, until the urge to bloviate returns... If materialism is t...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Inside Story of Religion

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Although Schuon and Kierkegaard have little in common in style or approach, they would agree on this: "it can happen that a man is int...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

Infrarational, Rational, Transrational

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Just because something isn't rational -- or reducible to logical expression -- doesn't mean it isn't true (apologies for the tri...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

How Stupid Can a Man Be? And How Intelligent Should He Be?

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"Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a me...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The Absolute Stupidity of the Left

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"Strictly speaking," writes Schuon, "there is but one sole philosophy, the Sophia Perennis ." In turn, this philosophy,...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

Alternate Facts, Alternate Brains

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This post is all over the place, and once again I don't have time to tie it all together. Besides, that's what commenters are for. ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Every Problem is a Mystery, but Not Every Mystery is Problem

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We left off yesterday with a comment by Schuon that I will quote in full, since it contains multiple and interlinked observations: Only me...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

On the Meta-Cosmic Rights, Duties, and Limitations of Atheism

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Time only for a very brief post. Let's get right to it! In a way, theism and atheism have a mutually supporting relationship; for jus...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

On the Momentary Presence of God

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This post totally got away from me. First, I was pulled into an unforeseen but promising rabbit hole that consumed much of my blogtime. ...
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Friday, April 07, 2017

Excrement Masquerading as Art and Politics

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Not much time this morning, and none at all next Monday. The best I can offer is a half-ration of Coon Chow: So, how and why and when did...
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Thursday, April 06, 2017

Common Sense and its Tyrannical Alternatives

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Before reading Common Sense Nation , I had never heard of the philosopher Thomas Reid , the intrepid discoverer of Common Sense. Prior to h...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

We Hold these Twerks to be Self-Evident

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My point is this: it used to be said that we shouldn't discuss politics or religion in public, or at least with casual acquaintances. W...
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Monday, April 03, 2017

The Self-Evident Truth of the Founders and the Progsplaining of Monsters

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In the previous post we touched on Schuon's old-school definition of philosophy as the science of fundamental principles -- a science th...
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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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