Saturday, February 24, 2018

Homo significans

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"We could have tails, horns, wings, or plumes, be oviparous or live under the sea:  the best use that one could still make of humanity ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Benedict Option

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     "Historical experience teaches us that any genuinely meaningful point of departure in an individual's life usually has an el...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

"Playing chess well requires a lot of intelligence if the player is human, but no intelligence whatsoever if played computationally."

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Philosophy of Information "Such an emphasis on outcome is technologically fascinating and rather successful; witness the spreading ...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

The power of living within the truth "does not rely on soldiers of its own, but on the soldiers of the enemy as it were—that is to say on everyone who is living within the lie and who may be struck at any moment (in theory, at least) by the force of truth. . . ."

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Václav Havel Library      Václav Havel, "The power of the powerless" (October 1978) VIII, trans. P. Wilson, in Living in truth...

"every Scripture, because it is theopneustic, is profitable."

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πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος οὖσα ὠφέλιμός ἐστι. every scripture, being theopneustic, is profitable. "every scripture, because it is theopn...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

"We may never arrive at the truth. But we can at least 'narrow the range of permissible lies.'"

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Stanford Profiles       James Campbell, the chair of Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, as quoted by Alex...
Monday, February 12, 2018

"A church that took this step would cease to be the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church."

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     "Here lies the boundary of a Christian church that knows itself to be bound by the authority of Scripture.  Those who urge the chu...