Thursday, December 4, 2025

Neiman and Rieff on the land acknowledgment

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Deutschlandfunk Kultur "there are many things short of giving back the continent that could be done to improve the lives of Native Amer...
Monday, December 1, 2025

"What happens in a culture is partly dependent on what the collective consciousness of the culture allows"

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Carlos "Eire’s [weird and wonderful] book [ They Flew: A History of the Impossible ] raises the question of a culture’s epistemic reali...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

"being deified does not make anything depart from what it is by nature"

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μηδαμῶς τῷ θεωθῆναι, τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἐκστᾷν.      St. Maximus the Confessor, Opusculum 7, trans. DelCogliano in Christ:  Chalcedon and beyond...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Chrysostom on merit and the sola gratia

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      "The Lord, however, does want them to contribute something, lest everything seem to be a work of grace, and they seem to win thei...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

"rather to reform the faith in us Christians than to give it to the Indians"

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"'Our people here are such that there is neither good man nor bad who hasn't two or three Indians to serve him and dogs to hunt...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

The energy cost of AI

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"In this domain, living organisms are unbeatable:  a human brain consumes about 25 watts.  By contrast, a computer possessing an equiva...

Planck on the scientific virtue "akin to" faith

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PLANCK:  ". . . The difficulty which organized religion finds in appealing to the people nowadays is that its appeal necessarily demand...