Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

"Let's get ready to rumb-ullllllllllllllllllllllllllllll !

Pastor Dan swims back in to my ken, and what brings him to attention is an interesting topic: a fight between 9 churches in Phoenix, Ari...

Monday, May 18, 2015

Comfort ye my people

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the ...

Falling Down

I'm just reacting here, because this is the only "review" of the final episode of "Mad Men" that I've read. ...

Saturday, May 16, 2015

The essence of American Liberalism

This is such a clear and cogent statement, it almost alone explains why we are still fighting the fights of the 19th century. Well, in...

"It's your fault I'm so angry!"

I have no comment on this , other than to point out, given the example of Richard Dawkins (“I DON’T give a damn if people find religious ...

Friday, May 15, 2015

Entries for the Commonplace Book

Godel's conclusions bear on the question whether a calculating machine can be constructed that would match the human brain in mathema...

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Sam Harris is a terrible horrible very bad no(t) good thinker

Mostly, I wanted an excuse to use this picture.... I should have paid a little more attention to the e-mail exchange between Chomsky a...

"Who looks out for shit kickers like you?"

I have, in my vast and yeasty archives, pictures like this. That's the President of the United States with those people. Ever see...

Being and Time and Comedy Central

The weakening of Being (Heidegger) has made "Christianity" once again a legible, credible story, one that we can take seriously, ...

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Gianni Vattimo relates a funny story

In one sense, it is exactly because of the loss of a unified religious authority that there is a sort of rebirth of religiosity. Real r...

Don't change the facts, change the outlook

Mornings with John Caputo: Above all, I am inclined today to organize everything I think about postmodern thought and about postmode...

"Where's all the people?"

Southern Beale insists Christianity is "dying" (because the only Christians in the world are in America!) and the headline wri...

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Readings in "Spectral Hermeneutics"

My thesis is twofold. 1. In the Scriptures the odd phenomena constituting the "Kingdom of God" are the offspring of the sho...

Fillin' out my bucket list

I also went here over the weekend. It was not the spiritual experience of a 400 year old place of worship, but it was a great geek momen...

Thanks, Obama!

There is, here , a valuable reminder of just how stupid our Governor is (in that he stands in a long line of Texas Governors, let's b...

Monday, May 11, 2015

Out on the Weekend

So I went here over the weekend, among other places. This is San Miguel de Socorro, in New Mexico. The stained glass you see above the ...

Thursday, May 07, 2015

Thinkin' Geekin' Out

Yeah, it's a gimmick. But I have a 3-D chess set, a Staunton set I've had since pre-teenagehood, a set made out of nuts and bolt...

Robert Browning: 7 May 1812

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who ...

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