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Give Me Nothingness or Give Me Nothing at All

Give Me Nothingness or Give Me Nothing at All

Last Friday evening, I was supposed to meet friends at the Hillcrest Lounge shortly after 5:00. I got there at 5:10 and ordered a drink. The others were delayed, so I sat there for over twenty minutes, looking out the window. Other than Ted Nugent on the jukebox,

Your Opinions Stink

Your Opinions Stink

John of Montmirail liked to fight. He was a leading knight in battle; he jousted in peace. But then he had a religious conversion and dedicated his resources to helping the poor, including the establishment of a hospice in his castle. He once went to help a woman whose dying

Frantically Trying to Fit in All the Spiritual Stuff?

Frantically Trying to Fit in All the Spiritual Stuff?

I once told a spiritual adviser that I really liked a'Kempis' The Imitation of Christ. He shook his head a bit and said he preferred to read Thomas Aquinas. He said he found the profound truths of, say, the Summa Theologica more moving spiritually than devotional works.

Entangled Life: How Fungi Know

Entangled Life: How Fungi Know

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. This short book tells me everything I want (and far more than I need) to know about mushrooms and their earlier stages. The author, it seems to me, tries to keep a sane perspective

The Rise of the Holy Men

The Rise of the Holy Men

So holy men left. They left for the desert and became the forerunners of the monks, though these early counter-culture revolutionaries were “in some ways less comparable to modern monks and nuns than to modern drop-outs, supporters of gurus, or others . . . who abandon the conventional world . . .”. Gibbon, The Fall of

BYCU

BYCU

Man Arrested for Shopdrinking A store loss prevention officer said the man was spotted selecting bottles of gin from the store shelves, pouring the contents into a cup, drinking the contents and discarding the bottles into a reusable shopping bag. [eco-friendly] The man initially did not cooperate with police when

First Things' Feature Essay: Resist the Machine Apocalypse

First Things' Feature Essay: Resist the Machine Apocalypse

The March 2024 issue of First Things arrived Tuesday. The feature essay: Iain McGilchrist, "Resist the Machine Apocalypse." It's great. But it's not online yet. When it is, I'll post an excerpt and a link to the full essay, but I suspect

Botch Your New Year's Resolutions Already? Maybe Try a Few of These Winter Resolutions

Botch Your New Year's Resolutions Already? Maybe Try a Few of These Winter Resolutions

"New year" means "new soul." That's what British writer G.K. Chesterton once observed. Many of us, though, already feel like we've soiled our souls with botched New Year's resolutions. And the rest of us will feel pretty soiled soon

1273: Apex of Western Civilization

1273: Apex of Western Civilization

December 6, 1273. That's the date St. Thomas Aquinas had such an intense experience or vision during Mass, that he stopped writing. For 35 years, Aquinas had used the written word to explain pretty much everything. He provided proofs of God's existence that atheists still struggle

Is "Dry January" Just a Neo-Prohibitionist Trick?

Is "Dry January" Just a Neo-Prohibitionist Trick?

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