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1 day ago by Adam

It is a curious effect of copy and paste, of quote and translation. Today, one can easily find fifteen minutes of fame, in the most literal of senses. This is not news. The oddity is that you can find that you were famous months after the fact. Back in February, when Facebook was considering some co ...

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58 days ago by Joshua Lim

. . . Nothing that can claim to be truly of the Church need shrink from the sober light of “scholasticism.” No matter how free and individual it may be in its first expression, if it seeks universal acceptance, it will be under constraint to set up a school and therefore to become the teaching of a ...

reformed blogging. - joshhlim.wordpress.com · Rank: 102,597 · 6 references

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60 days ago by Michael

As a post a while back made clear, I recently read Joseph Owens' An interpretation of existence. One thing that struck me forcefully at a number of places throughout the book was the peculiar and familiar character of some of his statements. Consider the following passage: . . . But the genetic leap ...

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74 days ago by Jed

Tonight was the night. The Bönpo scholar whose book has created such a stir among the monks arrived a couple of days ago and agreed to a Q&A tonight in the library gathering room. For the past couple of days the monks have been studying as he has carried on with his business, visiting with Rinpoché, ...

Indian Winter - india.jedverity.com · 1 reference

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78 days ago by admin

In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla’s Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy Lodi Nauta Harvard University Press, 2009 When the first wave of Renaissance-era humanists raised their nerdy battle-cry of “ ad fontes,” they were issuing the most fundamental challenge to the Church imaginable, ...

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81 days ago by mahendra singh

“’Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat; You will find I have told it you twice. ‘Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete, If only I’ve stated it thrice.” Another crypto-scholastic cri de coeur from the Subtle Don, Lewis Carroll, cunningly palmed off by him as the Butcher’s usu ...

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88 days ago by Michael

As conceptualized, existence manifests itself as absolutely necessary for the constitution of the thing. As originally grasped through judgment, it shows itself to be accidental to the thing. Existence is that way. It has both aspects, and allows itself to be known under both. If either aspect is ne ...

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89 days ago by Anthony

I came across a disappointing article by Richard Abanes yesterday called “ ODMS: A Cult is Born?” I say disappointing because I like a lot of Abanes’ material. However, I am not surprised by Abanes’ perspective. Abanes complains about the multitude of ‘online discernment ministries’ acting without o ...

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93 days ago by Michael

Time to bring the discussion back to the top. I've been meaning to post this for the last two days, but my blogging time is limited. Anonymous Commenter mentions the "momentous pauses on the blog when an entry doesn't come about until days or even weeks later," for which I apologize. The explanation ...

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95 days ago by Kilroy del Dancefighter Estallion the First

Longtime readers of this blog will be familiar with my more closely held beliefs; beliefs in objective truth, falsificationism, freedom, and justice, overtly expressed in every inch of my writing. These beliefs have colored my tenure here at the Injun, from my reviews straight through to the adventu ...

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