Reflections and Rant for the End of Days
Posted in Babylon, Churchianity, Philosophy on Jun 22nd, 2008
Michelangelo ‘hid secret code in Sistine Chapel’
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which the renaissance artist worked on for four years in the early 16th century, is actually a “bridge” between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish faith, according to The Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the [...]
Posted in Kibbitz, Philosophy on Mar 27th, 2008
The irony of the article below this apparent: Why should a fan of Fred Nietzsche (or any other pagan/atheist, for that matter) care about the “sanctity” of a grave-site? In a “god-is-dead” world where evolutionary forces (i.e., mindless matter+time+chance) all conspire to yield inherent randomness, what does “sanctity” mean? How can one of his followers wax poetic over the injustice of this [...]
Posted in Healing, Philosophy, Theological on Feb 13th, 2008
by David A. Hoekema
Few moral and theological positions are as deeply cherished by their adherents, yet so quickly dismissed by their opponents, as pacifism. The moral legitimacy of using violence is among the most urgent issues of our time, and yet its discussion slips quickly into an exchange of stereotypes. Pacifists are to be commended, [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Sep 13th, 2007
This morning I read a fascinating article that asked why a 118-year-old cylinder, the international prototype for the metric mass, is losing weight. The cylinder certainly isn’t being meddled with by humans, since it is kept tightly in a triple-locked safe at a lab outside Paris and rarely sees the light of day. It is used exclusively as [...]
Posted in Fascism, Philosophy on Aug 29th, 2007
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)
What’s the shtuss about Hegelian Dialectic?
It’s been said that modern politics operates on the basis of the so-called “Hegelian Dialectic,” a method of social engineering based on a rather dismal theory about how precious little people can actually [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Aug 28th, 2007
(This comes from an apologetics paper I once wrote.)
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) takes issue with the modernist approach of alienating the subject from the world, but does so from a different perspective than Heidegger (although there are some similarities of approach, especially since Heidegger was influenced by Kierkegaard). Although he has been accused of being fideistic, I think [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Aug 28th, 2007
(This is an excerpt from an apologetics paper I once wrote.)
Martin Heidegger (1899-1976) sought for a new way of considering the “whatness” of things by asking the question, “What does it mean for something - anything - to exist at all?” Not this particular thing, nor that (i.e., the realm of the sciences and traditional metaphysics); not [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Aug 17th, 2007
Postmodern Charismatic Christianity is a phenomena of despair. By “despair,” however, I do not mean “gloom” or “dejection,” but rather an absurdist anti-intellectualism that derived from the loss of hope regarding obtaining real knowledge about the world. In popular culture, we see that this despair arose just after WWI (in the USA, earlier in Europe), though its roots trace back [...]