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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Materialism, AKA The Bureau of Missing Persons

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Again, certain problems arise the higher we travel up the epistemological food chain, where things become increasingly real. For example,...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Advice for the Spiritual Pathlete

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So Kierkegaard, to his credit, "wished to make people think for themselves, use independent judgment and act with deliberate choice,...
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Monday, May 08, 2017

The Divine Archcomedian

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So: there is no system we can invent or discover that contains us; and yet, we are obviously contained in or by some sort of system. What...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2017

A Theory of Everything (except reality)

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One last post before we close the book on Kierkegaard. I'm just finishing a biography that elucidates his project and puts it all in h...
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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

It's the Morning of History and I'm Not Myself. Or Am I?

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I'm tapped out. The only thing of cosmic interest I've been thinking about is the cave paintings left by our so-called ancestors 10-...
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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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