Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The crisis of the times is the desperation to find something which persists through space and time, something fixed and immutable and therefore reliable, a place or thing or person or idea or […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In the mid-1980s, I saw the need to preserve and revive the theological arts. Living in Seattle at the time, I put a name to it: Seattle Society of Orthodox Theologians. My wife […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go. […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Devil not infrequently reveals the truth, unintentionally of course. Give Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper credit where credit is due. BG Ripper had a point regarding Purity of Essence. Of the […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Joshua Philipp: On Marxism in America, the Communist China Threat, Unconventional Warfare and Hong Kong Dated 03 August 2019, Superb Hour-Long Video Interview Busy-bodies are not trying to regulate, they are trying to […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I have discussed the nature and effects of ideology before now. Because the recent USA national election is — primarily, I think — a case study in that nature and its effects, a little AAR on the […]
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I am always behind the times. I discovered this guy, Vincent Dubois, today making the Duruflé Suite Opus 5. There was a composer named Théodore Dubois, early 20th Century. Vincent may be related to […]
There follow never-untrue statements regarding the phenomenon of cognition, which is the object of the science of epistemology. 1- Every situation comprises a set of facets through one of which are visible all other facets. 2- The important aspect of a situation is never the one upon which gaze is fixed. 3- Cognition occurs in […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Bad things happen because problem solvers’ attention to a genuine and simple problem that begs real solution is allowed, by the same problem solvers, to be deflected and deformed by hell-raisers self-appointed or incited to the purpose. The problem, always simple, goes […]
What do you think of this, which may be fictitious? I think it expresses what we remember of the 1950s that makes us yearn for them as a time, at least in our collective memory, of consideration, thoughtfulness, adequately reimbursed labor, self-sufficiency, simplicity, quiet and human values, before these blessings were deemed curses — and that […]
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. 1- Where is the Anglican Magisterium? 2- Which comes first: systematics, liturgy, scripture? 3- Does Anglican Doctrine include or need Logos Theology? What is Logos Theology? 4- Assuming that the Realism/Nominalism discussion is archetypal, how is it playing out today? 5- Is there […]
