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Thursday, April 23, 2020

When Your Mind Needs a Sewer

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An object of the senses must somehow be rendered immaterial in order to be understood, otherwise it remains entirely preconceptual and unthi...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

God is a Rock but He Also Rolls

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Pithy and precise: "The object of sense is a sensible, and the object of intellect is an intelligible" ( Brennan ). The surfac...
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

May the Best Delusion Win

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You don't say: The conflict between passion and reason makes up a major portion of the drama of [man's] existence on earth; and whe...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Love is the Answer!!! Unless it's the Problem

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A small but important point: "no sensitive power can reflect upon itself" ( Brennan .) In other words, our five senses don't ...
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Monday, April 13, 2020

Strange Neighborhood

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Let's stipulate that man is without question the most interesting and important fact in all of creation. If you can't stipulate to t...
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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Occam's Hammer & the Disintegration of Reality

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Oh, hello. What am I doing? Just flipping through Thomistic Psychology , looking for a post. Or rather, groping around for the Idea that or...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

Ovary Towers and Spiritual Testes

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Is it possible that thinkers who lived 700 or even 2400 years ago had a better understanding of psychology than do our present practitioners...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Gentlemen! You Can't Study the Soul Here -- This is the Psychology Department!

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I missed my calling. If I had only known psychology was this interesting , I would have studied it in graduate school instead of... Just w...
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Monday, April 06, 2020

I May Be Boring, But I'm Not Bored

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Someone needs to write a history of boredom. Perhaps someone has. Let's do some quick research. The only thing that comes up on amazon...
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Saturday, April 04, 2020

Trials and Evils, Absurdities and Inevitabilities

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Just a brief post, unless things get out of hand. I hope everyone is enjoying the unscheduled vacation, or at least making good use of it. ...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Flattening the Curve of Original Sin

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The modern man is the man who forgets what man knows about man. --Dávila "It is a commonplace of the Christian tradition," write...
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Monday, March 30, 2020

Mystical Objectivity and Scientific Vision

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There are two ways of knowing the world, or rather, two principal modes: there is a passive mode in which we receive the world, and an activ...
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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Terra Firma

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Solid ground. What's yours? No, you can't just ignore the question. Or, you can, but this will only mean your terra firma is igno...
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Et Cetera

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Must every post be an epic? Why not more frequent posts with fewer ideas, or maybe even one idea per post? Who has the patience to slog th...
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Thursday, March 26, 2020

The Endless Dialogue of Mind and World

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Change my mind: If science is just a common sense approach to the material world, meta-science (AKA metaphysics) is just a commonsense appr...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Nihilism Is Better than Nothing

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Does the cosmos have a center? Well, either it does or it doesn't. I suppose on a strictly scientistic basis the question itself is abs...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

The Cosmos is a Love Shack & There's a Party in My Head

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Looking for the latest on the Chinese Flu? You've come to the right place. You obviously need something else to think about. For exampl...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Endless Revelation

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The bottom line of the previous post was that "every scientific act is, ipso facto, an affirmation of God's existence" ( Barro...
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