Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
But were afraid you'd get an erection
Topic
History
A collection of 249 issues
Those Hippy Puritans
Exploring America's Millenarian Movements
š”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,
Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why ItĀ Matters
Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it.
Diabolical Ontological Monism
The best description I've found about the historical, practical, and logical hell that is ontological monism is provided by Warren Carroll, The Founding of Christendom (Christendom Press, 1985).
In the first chapter, he writes about the Harappan civilization: its doctrine of reincarnation, cult of Thug stranglers, horned gods,
Dostoyevsky's Possessed in Modern Day America
"Peter Verkhovensky meet John Styn. John, Peter is the descendant of godless liberal enlightenment thinkers who now wants violence and revolution. Peter, John is the descendant of an ex-Baptist minister who likes to hug a lot."
That's what went through my mind a few years ago
The Real Transylvania
From the One Thing File
āThe One Thing Fileā is a practice I learned from Econtalk. It's the practice of writing just one thing (okay, maybe more than one) that I learn from a book, essay, documentary, podcast, whatever.
For younger TDE readers, think of it as Reddit&
Dostoyevsky's Mock Execution
In 1849, political radicals were taken out of their jail to be executed. They were lined up in front of the firing squad. Right before the guns were fired, a courier galloped up with an imperial decree, commuting the death sentence to a term in prison camp.
The whole thing
Four reasons why the Right shouldn't be too distraught by the Capitol building violence
If you're like me, you're still embarrassed by the violent eruption at the
Capitol building last week. I know, Trump didn't directly provoke it, but those
close to him did, and Trump indirectly did.
As I mentioned yesterday [https://thedailyeudemon.com/53037/], no one
GKC on Waugh
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season of 1929. Waugh's card that year consisted of extracts reprinted from unfavorable reviews of his first novel, Decline and Fall. The harshest passage of all
Let's Celebrate St. Albert
(Although, to be honest, I can't hear the name "Albert" without thinking about
"Fat Albert.")
November 15th: Feast Day of St. Albert.
I've often wondered whether St. Albert was sad when his greatest student, St.
Thomas Aquinas, died before him. Together, I