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Friday, August 04, 2017

Liberation (from reality) Theology

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It's Friday, so time for... another rambling freeform post, I guess. Possibly very offensive material ahead, but it is what it is. I w...
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Thursday, August 03, 2017

Bad Religion Drives Out Good

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Is that true? In economics, Gresham's Law is the principle that bad money drives out good. This is because, as Prof. Wiki explains, ...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2017

The Rupture: God and Man, Intellect and Truth

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Brief timeout for a reset: everything we've discussed in the last month or so has revolved around the question of how to distinguish be...
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Friday, July 28, 2017

Omward Bound

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In the previous post we veered into the question of predestination, which comes down to how we can reconcile our freedom and God's omnis...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Principles of Good Religion: 1) Free Will

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We've been discussing the distinctions between theology and meta-theology and between good and bad religion. The question is: is this t...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Tying Together the Womb of Being

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Warning: recklessly abstract and speculative vertical meandering below. Watch your step! Commenter Commonsense Bob reminds us of the ever...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

The Essence and Form of Political Truth

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Yesterday while pondering this question of the form and essence of religious truth, it occurred to me that one can look upon the same distin...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Cosmic Heresy and Intrinsic Orthodoxy

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I have a surprise early appointment, so this post ended up raising more questions than it had the time to answer or properly dodge. We'l...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Meta-Theology, Esoterism, and Sola Relatio

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I don't even like the word "esoterism" because it sounds elitist and therefore Gnostic, the latter involving salvation via som...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

The Good News and the Fake News

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Just another rambling interior dialogue with myself, AKA circumnavelgazing the vast and luminous ocean of... Friday, I guess. It's tri...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

A Sporting God

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A little crazy around here. Some good friends are between homes -- the lease ended before the new house is habitable -- so they and three o...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Simon Says Grab Your Bucket

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So often problems result from trying to divide complementarities that cannot be divided -- for example, realism from nominalism. The latt...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

The Latest in Boredom Extension

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I overslept for some reason. However, I awakened with a post on my mind. Or at least I thought it was a post. As it stands, it's more...
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Thursday, July 06, 2017

A Preposterous Cosmos and How it Gets that Way

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It seems to me that one cannot begin to understand the nature of reality without recourse to the principles of horizontality and verticality...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

The Miracle of Slack

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Today of course is "Independence Day." From what? From Great Britain? Yes and no, in that the main purpose of our little rebellion...
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Monday, July 03, 2017

Is There Anyone In Here?

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I'm not sure how many people are reading the blog anymore, but it seems like Not Many.  Therefore, if the writing seems more introspecti...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

God has a Bridge to Sell Give Away

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"To say man," writes Schuon," is to say form; man is the bridge between form and essence, or between 'flesh' and ...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

To the Unknown-Known, and Beyond!

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I suppose we could say that the materialist (or any ideologue) naively reduces the world to the known-known, or conflates what is known with...
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