Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling I released the first TWE bonus episode yesterday: Gnosticism [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/4/21/bonus-episode-gnosticism] . It's all five segments that I did on Gnosticism, combined into one episode. I'll probably produce more bonus episodes using a similar

Miscellaneous Rambling New TWE podcast posted: Tiger Woods, Seven Nation Army of Actuaries, Twitter's Narrative, Grand Narratives and Post-Modernism. > Tiger Woods: Congratulations to Tiger and congratulations to golf. > Tiger and the Press: Tiger the Philanderer . . . covered up by the press. A small example of a

"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man

“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.” George MacDonald "The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat." G.K. Chesterton On those who hate Christianity: "They do not dislike the Cross

“[I]n the agony of Gethsemane the ultimate consequences of our sin had their hour. . . . God permitted his Son to taste the human agony of rejection and plunge towards the abyss. . . Gethsemane was the hour in which Jesus' human heart and mind experienced the ultimate odium of the sin

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. Ibid. at 5. After Prince Vladimir's baptism in 988, Russia became heavily

Miscellaneous Rambling When I was in high school, my friends and I went on a Whopper kick. We would sometimes get two Whoppers each. They got theirs with triple ketchup, which was absolutely disgusting, but we were all kind of pigs. Needless to say, my Whopper days are history. Or

Miscellaneous Rambling Way to go, Tiger! I'm not a huge golf fan, but I follow the Majors: The Masters, the PGA, the US Open, the British Open. And this is one of the best golf stories ever. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was kind of blown away by

> 16 USC §5305a makes it a federal crime to attempt to sell a product derived from a tiger. > — A Crime a Day (@CrimeADay) April 14, 2019 [https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1117498465892933634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

> Benedict XVI spoke the truth. God bless him for it. Truth always harms the stratagems of ambiguity and mendacity. https://t.co/3m9BzPSMpc > — Patrick Madrid ✌🏼 (@patrickmadrid) April 13, 2019 [https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/1117156676879171584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]