Month: July 2010
Piety and Death “It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious.” Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to …
The Robotic Soul “There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which gave us, apart …
Seen in a bar last night: — Mobile post
Cash for Souls “Facing the choice of cash or liberty human beings will always choose the former because it spells safety.” How else can you explain the popularity of …
Authority “Ochlocrats who never tire of accusing conservatives and Catholics of superstition, illogical traditionalism, and ‘unscientific’ procedure make an act of faith in the inner illumination of the individual …
Medieval Man “Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To him time was a relative conception because his center–God–stood at the same distance to the year …
Egalitarianism in the Hierarchy “The nonchalantly polite but nevertheless free interclass manners in the Catholic world are the natural consequence of a conventional (nonideological) egalitarianism, based on the profound …
“All our learning should consist of finding out what God has planned for us at each moment.” de Caussade, Abandonment.
The Reading Illiterate “A reading-writing education as such has benefited nobody, has elated nobody spiritually or culturally. There is no need to go to the other extreme and to …
The Herdist and the Romantic “Only the select can be closely confronted with the Absolute without taking flight. Only the saints, but not the ‘commonsensical’ herd, can and will …
Random Tuesday “President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of …
Body and Soul “Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering.” Such thinking could trend into Cartesian dualism, which undermines the …