C.S. Lewis writing about living in a world with nuclear bombs. Always relevant.

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

Proposal: It is at all times best for all humans to have the boundaries of their deepest understanding of God and Man to be porous. Bounding is necessary for intelligibility, but if these two, which are necessarily two sides of the Real Experience, are held fully apart one

Authority: Mediation, Humility, Love, Beauty with DC Schindler youtu.be/KDiqIfYRyNQ?si… via YouTube

“Self-justification is the voice of hell. In hell everyone is justifying himself. No matter what he does, if it’s a failure, he justifies it. He gives you all the reasons in the world. But hell is not a place outside of earth; it’s right here.”

More bangers from DC Schindler on Ken Lowry ‘s climbing Mount Sophia youtu.be/KDiqIfYRyNQ?si…

“Technologies are like cannibals that eat alive all existing populations. The first person to get swallowed is the consumer. There’s nothing neutral about any technology” Marshall McLuhan Forbes Magazine 3/15/1967

“The degree to which you do not have a grasp of the grammar of The Bible is the degree to which you do not have a grasp of the grammar of your own cognition.”—Dr John Vervaeke

One may understand the meta crisis of leveling all things as a dangerous moment, and it certainly seems to be, but it is also a massive opportunity. When we hit peak noise, the higher patten can land in a legendary way

“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”

True adventure begins when the unexpected is fully accepted as gift

Every object is an invitation to the imaginal. This is the essence of the concept ‘object’

I was already sold on the importance of fairy-tales for shaping the cultural imagination, but this book just floored me. It’s the third in the series, and it may be the best yet. Jonathan Pageau and Heather Pollington have accomplished something really special. This story is so

Spiritual war has casualties at all levels. Large moment physical manifestations are flash points, everyone feels it, the battleground is your heart and soul. Pay attention to your heart, and do not lose aim of Goodness because of fear and anger.

Every Age has a founding martyr. The next American Age has dawned, and Charlie Kirk is the founding life. Every ancient Hero was given the title because he slayed a monster and founded an Age of that principality. This, in turn, took on his image.

Thucydides: “Civil war ran through the cities… And they reversed the usual way of using words to evaluate what they did. Ill-considered boldness was counted as loyal manliness; prudent hesitation was held to be cowardice in disguise, and moderation merely the cloak of an unmanly

The question is whether the death penalty is necessary for proportionate retribution, which is the primary aim of punishment. Proportionate punishment is not, in fact, against human dignity, but quite the opposite: the ability to be punished flows from human dignity.

One part that is sort of entertaining to watch one the culture level of the current war is the exquisite naming of things creating mirrors. Trump need not be a fascist to designate Antifa as terrorist, but it sites gives them irony points

From FB: I know the exact pressure it takes to crack a rib during CPR. But last Tuesday, I learned a patient’s silence can break a doctor’s soul. His name was David Chen, but on my screen, he was "Male, 82, Congestive Heart Failure, Room 402." I spent seven minutes with him that

In light of recent conversations and a growing interest in developing a robust philosophical framework sufficient to address the challenges of Ai alignment, I’ve posted a PDF on my website of one of my earlier works. I feel it is a unique coordination of concepts related to