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Friday, April 18, 2025

The Real Now

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They say "the market hates uncertainty," but certainty is no bargain either.  Clarke points out that "there is no knowledge m...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Man's Godward Tendencies and God's Manward Tendencies

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What is the first truth without which there can be no others? A truth to which all must assent before even beginning the search for truth, a...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Absolute Relative and Necessarily Contingent

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Yesterday Gemini suggested some fruitful avenues to further explore the nature of time, so let's address them one by one: Further invest...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Time, Change, and Consciousness

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We left off with some observations by philosopher  Jules Lequier -- Never heard of her.   Me neither, but the short  wiki page  says that he...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

Getting to the Bottom of Time

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One must live for the moment and for eternity. Not for the disloyalty of time. -- Dávila   They say that for God all time is but a moment, ...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Cosmos and Anthropos

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Just what kind of being is man? The kind of being who can wonder what kind of being he is? That's a good start, but is there a definitiv...
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Saturday, April 12, 2025

God is Not Pushy but Alluring

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We've been toying with the idea that man is in the image of God, only in reverse, or "in silhouette," in that we are both memb...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

The Death Drive vs. The Great Attractor

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What goes for the intellect goes double for the will. That is to say, if the intellect is ordered to the true, the will is ordered to the go...
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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Hungry Ghosts and Useless Passions

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Most thinkers -- 99% -- are ono inawa shyo , i.e., not my kind of guy: But Norris Clarke is just my kind. As indicated in the past couple of...