Category: Culture
Normal Man
Here is some imagery suggested by Roberto Calasso in his book The Unnamable Present. He speaks of secularists, modern people who oppose religion in public but more importantly feel for themselves no religious orientation. The type of person is not new, Calasso says, but has always existed as a “perpetual shadow” to another type of […]
Read more...Subjective Time
I was thinking about the nature of time because I was invited to listen to and comment on a podcast about hell. That occasioned a consideration of time because it was necessary to evaluate the thesis that those who die without Christ don’t live eternally in torment; rather, their suffering is finite, and then they […]
Read more...Metaphysical Vibration
I’ve often said that modern culture is essentially materialistic, in the philosophical sense that material (physical) things are deemed to be all there is. And yet, materialists routinely invoke language of the transcendental to explain what’s going on around them, including the word “transcendent” itself. It’s confusing. It has the effect of masking the absence of […]
Read more...Good Sites
I commend to you a process I stumbled into, for selecting websites. Maybe in doing so I’ll be stating the obvious, but maybe not. I found it to be a great boon to be able to enter my email address at various blog sites for my interests, in philosophy, politics, literature, and humor. At first I […]
Read more...Submission
Review of Submission, by Michel Houellebecq The book is written from the first-person point of view of Francois. He is a scholar specializing in the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans. In many respects, he is Huysmans, except that Huysmans drifted into Catholicism; Francois into Islam. Like Huysmans, Francois is “the misanthropic aesthete and loner” who overcomes […]
Read more...Emancipation Day
Happy Emancipation Day. I heard on the radio that this holiday is the reason the due date for your taxes is extended. I thought that was the most ironic thing I’d every heard, so I checked to be sure it’s real, and it is. April 16th is apparently the anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, […]
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