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Friday, December 01, 2017

I Loved a Zombie

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The purpose of freedom is to enable us to choose what we are in the depths of our heart. --Schuon, To Have a Center Now, man is never rad...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Diabolical Freedom and the Fall into Ismism

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Before we begin, a benediction ("good words") from the Aphorist: The free act is only conceivable in a created universe. In the u...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Assault on Mount Liberty

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Because that's what it feels like. I'm talking about D.C. Schindler's Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern L...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Man is to Animal as Infinite is to Finite

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Continuing with our re-view of The Immortal in us... speaking of which, who is reviewing whom, the mortal the immortal, or vice versa? T...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Immortality While You Wait

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Just some highlighted passages from The Immortal in You: How Human Nature is More than Science Can Say , before moving on to the next subjec...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Chivalry and Other Forms of Female Oppression

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An eye exam is not an intelligence test, for the most perfect vision can coexist in the most perfect idiot. And vice versa: the person with ...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Precision Poetry and the Bill of Responsibilities

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In the previous post we touched on the mystery of how subjectivity enters the cosmos and existence becomes experience -- or, existence start...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The First and Last Now

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When you think about it, the center is as mysterious as the now. Einstein famously remarked that nothing in physics could account for the no...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Does Everything Evolve?

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I used to believe it did, until I realized that change must be in reference to something changeless. If man is pure contingency, then he can...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

What Privilege

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Worth repeating: the sense of essentiality attracts us toward shores other than those of the limited plane of physical phenomena alone (Sch...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

Cosmic Extortion and the Drunkard's Search

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Yesterday I was thinking about metaphysical Darwinism. (Would a strict Darwinian say that "Darwinism was thinking about me?"; for...
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Monday, November 06, 2017

Ramblers Gonna Ramble

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More off-the-cuff rambling. One of the -- if not the -- ultimate complementarities is subject and object. Indeed, these two seem to define...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017

Anchored in a Cloud and Soaring Toward A Dream

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Another rambling post. What can one do? It's a jungle in here, and some days the best you can do is hack away. Instability . It is...
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