Theology and Ethics: Tillich and Niebuhr

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. From October 1995, excerpt of a discussiononline with a Christian Scientist. I was comparing Tillich as a theologian with Niebuhr as an ethicist. The main thing that keeps coming back to me about this distinction — which I feel is a real and useful one — is that…

Russia Is Friend, Pakistan Is Enemy

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union by Webster G. Tarpley April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely…

Rhetorical Bear Spray

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Thandava And Christian Culture In the Spring of his Plebe Year at West Point, Cadet Douglas Mac Arthur was summoned before a Board of Inquiry mandated by Congress and comprising some Congressmen. The question was hazing, which that year had reached harmful extremes. Cadet Mac Arthur was summoned…

Tone Matters Much, Instrumentation Matters Little

As is the feeling,So is the result. BLUF: Who makes the narrative? Well, clerisy minions, the hive workers, mostly lawyers and professors, here and there, make the narrative, day by day, and pass out those talking points for broadcast by NGOs and media. But someone is setting the tone, the Weltanschauung that minions then translate…

Improvements Caused By This Pandemic

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Advocate against personal and national sovereign freedom and The dialectics of reality throw you into dramatic irony you find Unbearably bitter and some find deliciously despicable. In that double bind, you have no exit save detachment of ambitions. Thus stand China today . . . and…

The Gods Abandon, They Do Not Hate

The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Glenn Reynolds: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. The gods must really hate higher education lately. Abandon, not hate.  The gods walked away from the schools, leaving them to self-destruction.  Hating the schools is a waste of time, and the gods are not…

Mau-Mauing Stampede

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) as well as to their tools, practitioners, who call themselves the intelligence community (IC). For generations, Progressives Transgressives — aka…

Louche Predators

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA BLUF: Cut Their Comms Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) as well as to their tools, practitioners, who call themselves the intelligence community (IC). Outside The…

All Saints Day, 01 November 2019: The Grandeur Of Tragedy

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies criminally insane who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). The United States has experienced what historians call Great Awakenings,…

Hybrid Anchorite/Family Monasticism

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Bonhoeffer and others, including I, sought for decades to articulate what we…

Vivacious Logic Vice Gangrene Logic

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). At Power Line Blog, which I attend daily, one of the five…

To Exit Afghanistan And Drugs

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors.  This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies, Fascists, who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment (FPE) and intelligence community (IC). Most timely, Sir Winston Churchill, twenty three years of age, on…

Thandava – XXV

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA John Hinderaker: These days, it seems that pretty much all of our cultural indicators are pointing downward. I commented: Perhaps.  Seems is a caveat, as you know.  More than that, The Almighty’s arithmetic is not the same as ours and He is unaccustomed to miscalculating. What was the line, a step or…

Thandava – XXIV

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Perhaps conservatives should rebrand using the word justice.  For example: Intellectual Justice, Historical Justice, Political Justice, Cultural Justice, Religious Justice, Emotional Justice, Moral Justice, etc. Socialists want to co-opt the language.  Fine, back…

The Great Mistake: Female Clergy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Allowing women into the priesthood (Episcopal Church, Congregational Church-UCC) was a huge mistake and the founding of our estate of aggressive confusion.  Women did not ask for that.  Bull Dykes did, and they…