Month: September 2009

• History and Politics and your Future

  …in one sentence: When “person” means anything other than “object of God’s love”, bloodbaths ensue. I’m not sure democracy can survive as the Judeo-Christian tincture fades from the West, leaving…what?  The science we learned from Aristotle?   What is a vote-deserving agent under the gaze of reason alone?   The sanctity with which people regard “one person,…

• Grace versus Karma, by Bono

  This exchange has become well-known and Bono is praised for his acumen: Bono: Yes, I think that’s normal. It’s a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma.…

• The Zen of Watercolor

  The brush is a better artist than you are.    The water is a better artist than you are.   Just introduce the colors to each other then go get a coke.   They’ll form their own friendships and you can sit in the corner and eavesdrop.

• G.K. Chesterton: “They are walking in their sleep and try to wake themselves up with nightmares.”

  There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child is tired of “pretending”, when he is weary of being a robber or red Indian.  It is then when he torments the cat.  There comes a time in the routine of an ordered civilization when man is tired of playing at mythology and pretending that…