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“Human beings are not different from the fire, scanner, or mother bear; they’re just more complex systems.” But if science discovered that burning were actually as complex as the brain action, or even if there were some Rube Goldberg contraption that was as complex as neuronal firing, would we then have a reason to become confused […]
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1 Kings 19
At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD— but the LORD […]
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Virtually all errors in thought are the result of a misunderstanding or failure to appreciate the significance of the Incarnation. Alternatively: Reality is fundamentally Incarnational, and a failure to recognize this will always lead to error. Modern thought denies the Incarnation (generally by refusing to admit the union of material and spiritual, giving undue precedence […]
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Accounts of Medieval Constantinople
Reading Accounts of Medieval Constantinople, which contains a lot of really fascinating stuff. Constantinople has a fundamentally different feel than the Latin West. This passage sums it up nicely, I think: And Constantine the Great set up this lofty column and the statue of Apollo as Helios in his name, affixing nails from those of […]
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Zing!
(Gawain and some of Arthur’s other knights are at the court of the leader of the Romans, Lucius Hibernius) As Lucius was replying that he had not come there in order to withdraw, but rather that he might govern the country, his nephew Gaius Quintillanus who was present was heard to mutter that the Britons […]
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An informal, dashed off, certainly wrong history
First, God is removed from the world. Ironically, this stems from a pious impulse. The transcendence of God is stressed to the detriment of His immanence, and the ontological link between creation and creator is severed.* The universe is made a distinct sphere in which, in the absence of God, man becomes the measure of […]
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Man Eaters of Kumaon
Jim Corbett’s Man Eaters of Kumaon is a remarkable sort of book. It’s written in a matter-of-fact style that seems almost impossibly authentic. Corbett was a hunter, later conservationist, specializing in man-eaters, including the Champawat Tiger which killed over 400 people before Corbett brought it down (imagine! four hundred, the terror that must have inspired). […]
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