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Thursday, February 27, 2020

One Small Step for the Son of Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind

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Why do we have these two words: appearance and reality ? If your philosophy begins with the idea that we cannot know reality, then the rea...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Mono-realism vs. Oops²

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Miracles. What are they? It depends. For flatlanders, a miracle, even if it occurs, cannot occur, therefore it didn't. I don't disc...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

We All Live in a Leaky Submarine

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Last night I finally got around to watching Das Boot , the 1981 World War II film about life in a German U-boat. This post isn't about t...
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Friday, February 21, 2020

Reality ↔ Word ↔ Dialogue

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Yesterday I was bedazzled by an essay in Pieper's The Weight of Belief , called The Abuse of Language and the Abuse of Power . (It looks...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

How Am I Here?

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This is the ultimate question. We might say it is Alpha and Omega, first and last, because, supposing I am able to answer any question at a...
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Monday, February 17, 2020

Omniscience & Omnigorance

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Numbers five and six of our metaphysical themes are The Good and The Person . I didn't highlight all that much in the former, I suppose...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020

The World Wide Cosmic Web

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1. The unrestricted scope of the mind toward being ; 2. Existence as the act of presence (and God as the act of being itself); 3. Participa...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Come Together Over Me Under I AM

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We're up to number three of Clarke's six main themes of metaphysical reflection, participation , by which he means "the basic o...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

It's All Too Much

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For me, anyway. The more I learn, the less I know. At this rate, we'll know nothing by the end of this post, if not before. Number two...
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Sunday, February 09, 2020

The Marriage of Mind and Being

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We're in the process of reviewing the six main themes that dominated Clarke's seven decades or so (he died at age 93 in 2008) of met...
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Friday, February 07, 2020

All There Is To Know About All There Is

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So, metaphysics presupposes a passion for wholeness and an intuitive sense of deep harmony. Wholeness implies "partness," but t...
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Thursday, February 06, 2020

A Passion for Wholeness and a Vision of the Cosmic Area Rug

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We left off the previous post with the idea that there are "two poles" in existence -- or better, one pole with two ends, i.e., th...
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Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Keys to Everything

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Hmm. It can't be helped: an abrupt but brief change of subjects, the reason being that this involves the Subject of subjects, Principle ...
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Monday, February 03, 2020

The Anti-Word Made Flesh

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Toward the end of his piece on The Left's Great Lie and the pervasive threat it poses, Solway muses that Sometimes I feel that evil is...
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Friday, January 31, 2020

Crime, Organized Crime, and Progressive Kingpins

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When last we met, we were discussing the left's great lie and its pervasive threat to our culture . We believe that a Lie of this magnit...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Leftist Lies and Bug-Eyed Lunatics

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A liar and murderer from the beginning. Speaking of which, here is a piece by one of our favorites, David Solway, called The Left's ...
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