Author: Tim
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Robert Caldini: “…operations… without thinking about them…”
“…civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” from “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)” by Robert B. Cialdini PhD http://amzn.to/2bfBhX1
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Chivalry as Formalized Courtesy
Romantic courtesy is a liturgy of service which springs from the veneration of the Lady. Its goal is simply the lady’s felicity, and her looks and gestures are signs of acceptable service. All veneration is a selfless art, requiring patience, constancy, and discipline — in short, virtue. Eros may or may not…
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“In the word, the thought.”
Athanasius: “the Son is in the Father . . . because the whole being of the Son is proper to the Father’s ousia, as radiance from light and a stream from a fountain; so that whosoever sees the Son, sees what is proper to the Father and knows that the Son’s being, as from the…
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N.D. Wilson: “The world is rated R…”
The world is rated R and no one is checking tickets. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. N.D. Wilson
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“In Remembrance of Me.”
The Old Testament injunction to “Remember God” is the equivalent of the New Testament “faith”.
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Fox
The fox sat in the middle of the clearing as if he had nothing to do. I’m used to thinking of zoo animals as bored, but not wild animals, and this fox on the mile-wide Outer Banks should be feeling pressure to hunt for supper, since there can’t be many rabbits on this spit of…
