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Friday, January 24, 2020

The Metaphysics of Hell

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Interestingly, in letter 18 Screwtape lays out what we might call the "metaphysics of hell," i.e., Satan's ultimate vision of...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Satan's Nightmare: The Presence of Truth and the Truth of Presence

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A couple posts back we touched on the ontological structure of the now, and how it extends in all directions, i.e., forward, back, in, out, ...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

What Does Satan Really Want?

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Just a short one this morning... Since Satan cannot actually create, he must be a kind of pure reactionary, such that he simply wants for m...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

The Point of Usefulness is Uselessness

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"Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man," writes Screwtape, "and it makes very ...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Man is a Portal Beyond Himself

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In the previous post we discussed how logic is to be avoided in attempting to turn the soul from God, if only because it is illogical to pre...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

What Would Satan Do?

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Switching gears for the moment, I want to discuss The Screwtape Letters , which I read for the first time a week or two ago. As readers no ...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

God's Own Reality Tunnel

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Why on earth would you ever want to be happy, let alone joyful? Asked no one, ever. This is because, or so it seems, happiness is the thin...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Envy, Gratitude, Happiness, and Hell

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Apologies in advance: this post veered way off course, but it couldn't be helped. We'll try to right the bus tomorrow. We left off...
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Sunday, January 12, 2020

What is Happiness?

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Trick question: it is nothing, because it can't be an IS. I used to think otherwise, back in both my atheist and Vedanta days. Let...
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Saturday, January 11, 2020

"Courageous Leftist" and Other Oxymorons

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There can be no such thing as a courageous leftist qua leftism. In other words, a leftist may demonstrate personal courage in, for example,...
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Thursday, January 09, 2020

Reproductive Justice, Good and Hard!

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I woke up unusually early this morning. I hadn't intended to write a post, but I had the time, so here it is. Given my slightly altere...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020

You Can't Do What's Good if You Don't Know What Is

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While freedom and responsibility are complementary, like all complementarities one must be prior, in this case, responsibility. A human fee...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

The Decline and Fall of Language

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While attacks on language are always present -- being that they are central to the Satanic Project -- never before in history have they been...
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Sunday, January 05, 2020

Conquering the World with Negative Thinking

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The most genuine way to conquer the world is through knowledge of reality. --Josef Pieper "And so," asks Pieper , "what is...
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Friday, January 03, 2020

Lose Your Muscles and Make Yourself Useless!

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What we now call "wokeness" is the transformation and internalization of a mechanism -- political correctness -- into a person. ...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Who Rejects God Believes in Fairy Tales

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This essay looks good: Knowledge and Freedom (from Exercises in the Elements ). There was a time I didn't understand or even see the n...
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