Month: June 2008

• From Ennui to Angst

  The pagan world crippled us with meaningless cycles.  Now that the Jews rescued us from the fatalistic pagan circle and gave us a history that is going somewhere, the somewhere in the distance is what cripples now.  It is meaning, of a sort, but meaning that is not doctrinally clear is just a vague foreboding…

• “Meaning”

  The one central lesson from the history of the West is both obvious and widely evaded: there is no pathway to meaning either in ecstasis or induction.    And the non-Christian East, in despair for thousands of years, has failed to advance their root assertion – that the very need for meaning is illusion.   Turns…

• Conspiracy Theorists and Intelligent Design

  1.  The uncritical attribution of malignant design I know a man who is paranoid.  I don’t mean he is sometimes anxious that others are out to get him, or that he is occasionally dramatic about threats.  No, he is paranoid, which means he observes a phenomenon, and then projects onto the unseen backstage of that…

• The Mind Puzzles, The Feelings Feel, The Heart Wants

  I’d like to save you some time. Here’s a list of perpetual arguments, the ones that have been going on long enough that everyone should have figured out the debate is not actually progressing. Neither of the two antagonistic parties ever wins. This is a shortened list, you probably have heard other versions of these:…