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Eric Scheske

The Return Eudemon

We got back last night at midnight from a packed trip to California. We spent time in LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Soledad, Altadena, Pasadena, Venice Beach, and Anaheim. An endurance test or a vacation? I'm still trying to decide. > It'

Wednesday

From the Notebooks Marx prohibited any discussion of first things, realizing that they ineluctably lead back to God. Marx was so fearful of questions about transcendence that Eric Voegelin described him as a spiritually diseased man who suffered from “logophobia.” Eric Voegelin, From Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke University Press, 1975)

Tuesday

From the Notebooks The examples of Russia's tendency to absorb other cultures are numerous. The earliest years of Russian history show an influence from Finnish races, steppe peoples, the Greeks, Persia, and the Vikings. After Prince Vladimir's baptism in 988, Russia became heavily influenced by Byzantium.

Hippies in Northern California: Living Off the Grid

Though professing to be radicals, many hippie women proudly recalled their lives as similar to the experiences of the paragon of American conservative virtue: the pioneer woman. Ayala Talpai, who lived off the land with her husband and five children, remembered that when it was “time for supper, I’d

Monday

From the Notebooks Dr. Carroll published the first volume of this projected-seven volume set in 1985. Called The Founding of Christendom, it took the reader from Genesis to Emperor Constantine, whose conversion in 313 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire and brought Christianity to center stage. The

Saturday

> George Orwell: The Forgotten Prophet (essay by Joseph Pearce) https://t.co/FlQ1QWf08p > — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) March 22, 2019 [https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/1109145315117027328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Friday

BYCU A TDE reader sends along perhaps the best Lenten BYCU piece of all time: Man does 46-day beer fast [http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/25/my-take-what-i-learned-from-my-46-day-beer-only-fast/?fbclid=IwAR1N3h8KzgNTUKRvmhTIqCO00FTU35jKDKpfvT9zIF6OMk0pW-F_dLRUZ3I] . When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be about a guy who gave up

Thursday

Miscellaneous Rambling Good to hear: MSNBC's ratings have taken it in the shorts since its sham fear-mongering has been exposed: Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth on Monday evening, down almost 500,000 total viewers from the previous

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> Breaking News @AOC [https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] claims she found a way to end world hunger pic.twitter.com/57alYs6pjc [https://t.co/57alYs6pjc] > — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) March 25, 2019 [https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1110324797806919680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Wednesday

Midweek Rambling The New York Times opens up a promising op-ed feature: religious philosophy wars. It runs a wholly one-sided op-ed that ridicules the idea of a God that philosophy can reason to [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/-philosophy-god-omniscience.html]. I assume the Grey Hag will give