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Friday, November 29, 2019

Interpreting the World(s)

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One thing leads to another, yada yada. Now that I'm thinking about solid rock -- foundational principles that cannot not be -- I keep r...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Throwing Rocks with Sr. Dávila

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While on the subject of solid rock, I thought it might be fun to select some of Dávila's aphorisms that are built on or out of bedrock, ...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Standing on Solid Rock

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This will be a very non-linear post, so heads-up. It's just that it's a big subject, and I've bitten off more than I can chew, ...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

The Satanic Eucharist : You Are What Eats You

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More arresting passages from our reading of Ratzinger , presented with or even without comment if you're lucky: When the eternal Word a...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Cosmic Liturgy

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I want to take a side trip from our sidetrack into Dunning-Kruger because now I'm preoccupied with another book, Volume III of the Colle...
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Friday, November 08, 2019

There is Always a Meta-

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This observation by Dunning is right in the One Cosmos wheelhouse: "Some of our deepest intuitions about the world go all the way back ...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Ignorance, Meta-Ignorance, and Full-Blown Tenure

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In many ways, the Dunning-Kruger effect simply ratifies common sense: that there are varying degrees of ignorance with corresponding degree...
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Monday, November 04, 2019

The Truth Doesn't Need You to be True

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Continuing on the theme of Dunning-Kruger , being that humans tend to "overestimate their competence by a long shot," the campaign...
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Friday, November 01, 2019

Society for the Prevention of Dunning-Kruger

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A fool is he who thinks that what he knows is without mystery. --Dávila It's no doubt accurate to say that everyone is subject to the ...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Dunning-Kruger of the Spirit

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Time only to lay a foundation... The other day I read an essay on the Dunning-Kruger effect , which is without question one of the most imp...
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Monday, October 28, 2019

Less is More, More is Less

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As usual, an improvised post that is recommended to no one and not recommended to anyone. Let's go back to the essay we were discussing...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Cause

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If one believes it possible to deny that one is a man or a woman -- i.e., to affirm the possibility of "transgenderism" -- it is o...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

If Transcendence is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Transcend Themselves

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Yesterday I read a short essay by Schuon in this new translation of Esoterism as Principle and as Way , called What Sincerity Is and What It...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Transrational and Infrarational Religion

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A few posts ago, we mentioned that political correctness is a number of things, including shaming mechanism, conformity enforcer, social con...
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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Plans and Miracles

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Just an old post because I woke up too late for a new one. However, it's pretty much timeless, so there's that. It's timeless be...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Narcissism + Idolatry = Infinite Stupidity

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I guess we've been going around a hermeneutical circle between common sense in the abstract ( Curry ), the concrete consequences of the ...
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Sunday, October 13, 2019

To Woo Woo, and Beyond!

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Political correctness is many things: shaming mechanism, conformity enforcer, social controller, internalized tyrant, matrix guardian, a war...
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