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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Temporal Holofractality

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Seems like every once in awhile we delve into the subject of Time. I don't know if we make any progress when we do, since I don't ex...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

The Still Point of the Dancing Post

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Yesterday we spoke of part/whole relations, and I've sometimes wondered -- for example, in the book of the same name  -- if this princip...
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Thursday, December 28, 2023

The Part Abides in the Whole

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As we know, there is nothing in science per se -- nor will there ever be -- proving the existence of a closed cosmos. At best, this is but a...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Openness to Openness

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They say -- Chesterton did, anyway -- that the point of having an open mind is to eventually close it: Merely having an  open   mind   is  n...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Is There Such a Thing as Non-Christian Philosophy?

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"No," writes Pieper in response to his own question, "there is no non-Christian philosophy." So that settles it. You...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Jesosophy and Homerology

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Didn't plan to post today, and still don't, but God laughed and pointed me to a book called The Philosophy of Jesus , by Peter Kreef...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

If Christ is the Answer, What is the Question?

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Christ is the truth. What is said about him are mere approximations to the truth. Okay, but... what kind of truth? And excuse me, but what w...
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Who Do I Say That I Am?

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For a thousand years between the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and the dawn of the Renaissance in the 15th century the torc...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Imagine There's No Imaginaton

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It's pretty hard to do. The imagination is the only place in the world where one can dwell. Certainly it is where I like to dwell, and t...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Who Do You Say that I Am? And Why?

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As per the usual custom, after hitting the publish button yesterday I picked up a book at random and it proceeded to comment on the post.  I...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Premodern and Postmodern Nihilism

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Yesterday we spoke to the post-maturity of progressive demopaths who pretend to defend human rights while destroying them. Today we will spe...
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Sunday, December 17, 2023

That's Not Empathy, That's Post-Maturity

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Democracy is a miracle, considering human psychological disabilities (Eli Sagan, in Landes). I'll go one step further: considering human...
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Saturday, December 16, 2023

Once Upon a Time There Was a Caliphator Coming Down the Road with a Bomb Strapped to His Chest

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Caliphator: one who believes that in our day, in this generation, Islam will triumph over all other religions and establish a global Calipha...
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