Friday, November 7, 2025

"Hall of mirrors"

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     "If the right hemisphere delivers 'the Other' – experience of whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves – this is no...

"Receive us . . . not troubled, not shrinking back on that day of death or uprooted by force"

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Index of Medieval Art, below "O Lord and Maker of all, and especially of this body of ours! O God and Father and Pilot of mankind! O Ma...

"being and being known as a Christian"

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"Although he possessed many important honors, his own first claim to dignity consisted in being and being known as a Christian."  ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

"Every new object, clearly seen, opens up a new organ [of perception] in us"

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"In his Anthropology, . . . Dr. Heinroth . . . calls my approach unique, for he says that my thinking works objectively.  Here he means...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

AI singularity as fundamental bug, not ultimate feature

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     "The singularity of each [and every] AI machine is to be contrasted with the universality of human reason.  Rational activity cons...

"the amplitude of the glory of [the Father's] inheritance in the saints"

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ὁ πλοῦτος τῆς δόξης τῆς κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις       Eph 1:18 RSV:  "that you may know . . . what are the riches of his glori...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Neither hero nor villain

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"Thus Columbus-the-hero and Columbus-the-villain live on, mutually sustained by the passion which continuing controversy imparts to the...