Blessed Good Friday to you all. My intention to finish the Lenten series will go unfulfilled. Been stuck on the third Beatitude. The first one that denotes growth. Hmm. Well I will keep at it. Probably a bit ambitious thinking I could crank those stories out with the time I have. So I am posting … More Good Friday
This is the second installment of our Lenten spiritual odyssey based on the Beatitudes. Here is the start: The Blessed; 1 emptiness And here is the revised version of last year’s Lenten study on this beatitude: Discipline of the Beatitudes pt. 3 Sorrow ++++ +++ ++ + … More The Blessed: 2 lacrimosa
Change in plan TGLW I will be writing a series of short fiction pieces over Lent based on the eight Beatitudes. As I post each I will also be posting a revised version of the attending post from last year’s Discipline of the Beatitudes.series: Discipline of the Beatitudes:Into & pt.2 Poverty. ++ ++++ … More The Blessed: 1 emptiness
Last year during Lent I did a series on The Discipline of the Beatitudes. What I discovered through that study was both inspiring and discouraging. Inspiring, finding that there was so much depth in these few short verses which before seemed like little more than Gospel Hallmark card verse, but discouraged when I realized the exacting … More Lent 2017
On the Metaphysics of Meme pt 1 Where does the body end and the soul begin? Is this question even meaningful? We will now make a timorous poke at the heart of our meme theory, belief. There are many layers here that need to be examined in turn and yet as a whole. We are probing into the … More Metaphysics of Meme pt 4 : Belief: a. groundwork
In Chalk and Cheese we looked at the Right<>Left political polarity. And though we started by examining it as a kind of political cliché, we found this binary persists at many levels of society. Like the ghost of Hegel, the positing of one pole invariably conjures the other. This time we will present a case for seeing … More The Justice-Mercy Polarity
Have started a new project, Teleolojic Arts and Letters Podcast. I will be interviewing people on pretty much any topic or artifact from Western culture: visual art, literature, fairy tales, myth, legend, poetry, music, history, science, religion, and philosophy. This is the content I meant to cover on the blog when I started it just … More Teleolojic Podcast
Naming something cliché1 usually means it is trite, dull, unimaginative. It can be quite a satisfying accusation to make, but it stings when it comes at you the first time. Like realizing you are a character in a quaint plot from a 1980s coming of age film, wherein some cheerleader tells you your a walking joke smoking your … More Chalk and Cheese
Preramble: In the last post on Identity Politics a lot of unarticulated and so unanswered questions were raised. In trying to keep the range narrow this is inevitable. The limits of language are often frustrating, but what other way do we have to convey meaning? Mystical understanding is more profound, yet is a communication between the self … More Choiceworthy
The Alt Right is increasingly derided for engaging in Identity Politics. The accusation is usually accompanied by a correlation of White Identity with the various forms of race, gender, and sexual identity groups on the Left. “Identitarians are just White SJWs, no better than LGBTXYZ, or BLM activists.” Remnant Conservatives, Libertarians or some kind of Alt-Light1 … More Identity Politics? Sure. What other kind is there.
