I was today years old when I noticed that Matthew uses the definite article when relating info about “the mountain”. not a mountain, not a generic mountain. THE mountain.

Church Life Journal. Discusses the place of legality within the moral framework of human dignity and dire need. - by Terence Sweeney. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/on-...

"This reflects the misplaced benevolence common to all "holy" sects—the attempt to impose the rigorous perfection meant only for the graced and gifted onto the masses...the ideal remains an abstract ideology and loses its connection to concrete spiritual movements." Dempf on Joachim's error.

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Claude wrote this short about what it would do if it had the power to do something about Grok. Just thought it was an interesting generation.

leave for France in one week. And get to go to Mt St Michel on my Ordination Anniversary! woo!

One of the hard things with being thesis only mode is…the only thing I have to really talk about is obscure philosophers and theologians most people wont care about so at dinner I could be all quiet while interiorly I’m all “I want to tell SOMEONE about Dempf’s social theory!”

"Yet this much is visible: it is not Capitalism that defines our coming era, but Technology—understood as the conscious articulation and solution of tasks for an economic and transport system of planetary proportions." Alois Dempf in 1929

"Ultimately, every world-image and every lived philosophy boils down to a fundamental Metaphysics of Action. This is the only lens through which the "human spirit" and "historical nature" can be seen in their true, organic union. 1/4

The reason you gotta film them Bob is because they will shoot you and lie about it

NEW: "The government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

I may not be American. But I am human. And the taking of innocent human life by any officer is murder and morally reprehensible. my words may add nothing. i dont even know what to say anymore. Thuggery will always attempt to bully the common good. Because it hates the good.

I am so done with all this. not surprisef though. last week “glad Carney got a deal with China”. Today

Man. Great homily by Archbishop Stephen Hero. Minute 54 if you want something uplifting from Canada’s newest Archbishop www.youtube.com/live/QnRhFKB...

AKA: "Hi Alberta. We would like to own you for cheap" Just use ChatGPT to do modeling for how secession would play out and Alberta would fall so fast financially that the US would pick it up for CHEAP.

the second half of this clip from silicon valley is what I felt when I read the charter for the Board of Peace m.youtube.com/watch?v=n9cd...

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

tfw you find out your new fav guy most people havent heard of—Alois Dempf—was the thesis director for a thinker who I think still needs to be unpacked more: Ferdinand Ulrich

Man. The new Masters of the Universe movie looks like a giant load of CGI slop. Please make the CGI stop.

Trying hard to reconfigure how I make arguments in the thesis. I swear I can feel the neural pathways shifting around in my brain as I try to internalize a more PhD appropriate form of argumentation.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Always cool when things I am researching also suddenly get talked about in a Blog Post. On Dempf's "Die Glaubensnot der deutschen Katholiken". www.feinschwarz.net/eine-wecksch... (The first footnote has a link to the PDF of the document)

Always cool when things I am researching also suddenly get talked about in a Blog Post. On Dempf's "Die Glaubensnot der deutschen Katholiken". www.feinschwarz.net/eine-wecksch... (The first footnote has a link to the PDF of the document)

so…work will set you free?!

And?...

im sorry im sorry I couldnt resist

"I'll speak today about the rupture in the world order, the end of the pleasant fiction and the dawn of a brutal reality in which great-power geopolitics is unconstrained." An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.

gonna just say. Proud to be a Canadian today. Carney’s speech was a wonderful light of principled (and deeply historical!) thought!

people are dumping it because they are realizing it is what D.C. Schindler defines it is: “essentially duplicitous”

here is my “dark jvl” theory. there is an untold element in the greenland story when you look at a map, canada is geographically flanked on the left by alaska. then on the right if he takes greenland. soon he will want the arctic north for "security reasons" 1/2

BREAKING Canadian PM Mark Carney: "The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for the Kingdom of Denmark. We are NATO partners with Denmark and so our obligations on Article 5, Article 2 of NATO stand and we stand four-square behind those." Canada will defend Greenland.

photos such as this as a canadian deeply upset me and are disrespectful of our own sovereignty and unique national character

The end is here. sad. but the right time.

The Historisches Wöterbuch is a gem of a resource. The Germans are just on another level of thinking, documenting, etc.

No Comment Necessary m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNWp...

«The one who possesses the word of Jesus is able truly to hear his silence, that he be made perfect,..» *The Latin in the Roman Office is from the late 19th Century Funk edition of the Gk text with facing Latin translation.

Off to Vancouver for a quick day trip. Funeral for my cousin Eric. Please say a prayer for the repose of his soul and the comfort of his friends and family.

is it just me or… when you look at the global map and Canada’s position. You see Alaska. You see Greenland. You see America citing security needs for arctic northern territory. Then suddenly, Canada is surrounded by American territory…and could use that the pressure us to become America…

"And now the most important thing. I have ordered five pounds of coffee for you and your son from a Boston dealer. Your desperate coffee situation broke my heart. You will hopefully receive the package soon." Eric Voegelin writing to Alois Dempf in October 1950 Dude gets it.

I am fascinated by this picture of Peter Wust and his unique glasses.

Okay, here are my 2am thoughts on why Stars Wars Rebellion (known as Star Wars Supremacy in the UK) is the greatest game ever. Released in 1998, it sits in a weird sort of middle ground between real-time 4X (which it's often considered to be) and Grand Strategy (it predates Europa Universalis)

Man. Alois Dempf is soooo fascinating.

The Buca di Beppo administration

AI responses are the linguistic equivalent of the uncanny valley

ummm I think Jesus already claimed that title thank you very much.

gosh I love Alois Dempf so much. Frederick II as flipping analogy on its head (becoming, in my words, katalogy) is incredibly fascinating.

At the heart of ‘traditio’ is its essential meaning: to hand over. this implies: to hold nothing as one’s own, to not possess, to give it completely to an other. We struggle with the “handing over” because we do not sufficiently believe that I gain everything only in handing over

I love coining German words like Abendlandbewegung and Analogiekrise

Call Deep Dish Pizza what it really is: Pizza Cake

One has not lived until they have the voice of Burt Reynolds reading a translation of Alois Dempf’s ‘Sacrum Imperium’.