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The Homeless are Now Early Morning Risers

My entire life, I've been taught early risers have a head start on success. Rise and shine! Get a jump on the day before it gets a jump on you. The early bird gets the worm. ' Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,

Sacred Cow Homeless (Continued)

Maybe those folks in Thailand have a better way of dealing with our sacred cow homeless. Cambodia Lets Tourists Shoot Cows With Rocket Launchers - Cambodia Expats Online: Forum | News | Information | BlogCambodia Lets Tourists Shoot Cows With Rocket Launchers Trevor KucheranAugust 9, 2018 Travel News For the Right Price Tourists

Why Gnosticism is Left Hemispheric

Why Gnosticism is Left Hemispheric

Gnosticism is logical. In fact, it can be argued that logic and rational conclusions are the gnostic's gods. The gnostic uses rationality to construct abstract ideas of how the world works . . . of what full reality is. The gnostic then embodies these abstract ideas into structures (the belief in

Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”

Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”

“Modernitis”: A mental disease, rarely diagnosed, marked by intuitive confidence in one’s ideas and the findings of science

These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic

These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic

A Diagnostic of the Gnostic Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took their subjects to much higher levels. The Swiss theologian, Hans urs Von Balthasar

Those Hippy Puritans

Those Hippy Puritans

Exploring America's Millenarian Movements 💡The Puritans were Gnostics. If you understand Puritans, you start to understand modern Gnosticism. If you understand modern Gnosticism, you begin to see the glaring problem that is modernity. We are a nation held together, paradoxically, by the agonism of conflicting millenarian projections: communists,

How Alcohol Fuels Civilization

How Alcohol Fuels Civilization

Gonna pick me up a six-pack of art this evening Marshall McLuhan made himself a household name, writing about media. Media are tools, things that extend ourselves: a hammer extends our fist, flashlights extend our eyes, etc. I'm not sure he ever considered whether alcohol might be a

The Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc

The Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc

A few notes on the Inklings, Iain McGilchrist, and Poetic Language

What’s that Twitter Imp Up to?

What’s that Twitter Imp Up to?

From the Archives (January 2021)

Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters

Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters

Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it.