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I guess that's about right.
August 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I guess that's about right.
Oof I feel exactly the opposite.
August 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Oof I feel exactly the opposite.
The charitable frame is that the instinct *can be* a reaction to the real injustices and potential and actual violence bound up with demographic decline, especially to the very young and the very old. But of course it's mostly driven by its own sort of violent pagan vitalism. Bridges go two ways
July 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The charitable frame is that the instinct *can be* a reaction to the real injustices and potential and actual violence bound up with demographic decline, especially to the very young and the very old. But of course it's mostly driven by its own sort of violent pagan vitalism. Bridges go two ways
This is a lot weirder than those.
June 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is a lot weirder than those.
Very much in the spirit of your playlist here, have you ever encountered Iris Dement's album setting translated Anna Akhmatova poetry to piano music: open.spotify.com/album/2qklW5...
The Trackless Woods
Iris DeMent · Album · 2015 · 18 songs
open.spotify.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very much in the spirit of your playlist here, have you ever encountered Iris Dement's album setting translated Anna Akhmatova poetry to piano music: open.spotify.com/album/2qklW5...
Why? It's nice.
May 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Why? It's nice.
Who wrote this? I found it kinda moving.
May 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Who wrote this? I found it kinda moving.
Wrt her, I'll admit I thought Michael Pakaluk's comments in his Mark translation were some of the best remarks I'd ever encountered about that episode.
May 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Wrt her, I'll admit I thought Michael Pakaluk's comments in his Mark translation were some of the best remarks I'd ever encountered about that episode.
Wait, not the Syrophoenician woman?
May 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Wait, not the Syrophoenician woman?
Do I just read the paper, or kind of present it colloquially? Do I make a handout? The paper is 14 pages double-spaced, how much time should I expect that to take?
May 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Do I just read the paper, or kind of present it colloquially? Do I make a handout? The paper is 14 pages double-spaced, how much time should I expect that to take?
Some possibilities seem to me a consequence of space-filling, where if it can happen it just seems like it eventually will. Not sure if this is that but I wouldn't be surprised.
May 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Some possibilities seem to me a consequence of space-filling, where if it can happen it just seems like it eventually will. Not sure if this is that but I wouldn't be surprised.
I don't know man, we're creatures so "because I said so" is just part of the grammar of why there's anything at all. As concerns those parts of reality that are firstly given to us (like the priesthood), istm our arguments gesture at fittingness rather than arrive at conclusions.
May 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don't know man, we're creatures so "because I said so" is just part of the grammar of why there's anything at all. As concerns those parts of reality that are firstly given to us (like the priesthood), istm our arguments gesture at fittingness rather than arrive at conclusions.
Only one seems possible to me, but just because it's possible it kinda seems likely to me. Anyway, we'll all find out together.
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Only one seems possible to me, but just because it's possible it kinda seems likely to me. Anyway, we'll all find out together.
This is right.
May 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is right.
I admittedly find all those compelling enough on their own, and I'm inclined to think some version of "because I said so" is how everything cashes out in the end one way or another.
Same is true for contraception, God forbid we should take "perverted faculty" arguments as constitutive of anything.
Same is true for contraception, God forbid we should take "perverted faculty" arguments as constitutive of anything.
May 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I admittedly find all those compelling enough on their own, and I'm inclined to think some version of "because I said so" is how everything cashes out in the end one way or another.
Same is true for contraception, God forbid we should take "perverted faculty" arguments as constitutive of anything.
Same is true for contraception, God forbid we should take "perverted faculty" arguments as constitutive of anything.
Well it isn't a "conclusion" in the sense that it depends on prior premises. The "arguments" from Jesus' decision to ordain only men, the prefiguration of the levitical priesthood, sexual symbolism, appeals to authority and tradition etc are all more like elucidations.
May 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Well it isn't a "conclusion" in the sense that it depends on prior premises. The "arguments" from Jesus' decision to ordain only men, the prefiguration of the levitical priesthood, sexual symbolism, appeals to authority and tradition etc are all more like elucidations.
Anybody who takes it in any of those directions can be reading the text consistently and in good faith. Cesar Chavez, Lech Walesa, Dorothy Day, as much as various reactionary mercantilists and corporatists. Feature not a bug.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Anybody who takes it in any of those directions can be reading the text consistently and in good faith. Cesar Chavez, Lech Walesa, Dorothy Day, as much as various reactionary mercantilists and corporatists. Feature not a bug.
It offers an articulation of principle that can bear fruit in the independent and collective activity of labor, an affirmation of the diffuse appropriation of property as a natural good, and also corporatist nod to the cooperation of labor and capital.
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It offers an articulation of principle that can bear fruit in the independent and collective activity of labor, an affirmation of the diffuse appropriation of property as a natural good, and also corporatist nod to the cooperation of labor and capital.
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Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic
May 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic
Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic
May 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Also the first American Pope elected on V E day amid this global turmoil is pretty cinematic
My read on the name is that it's conciliatory: a nod to social justice and catholic social teaching, and likewise a nod to the thomists, so different vibrant corners in the Church's life.
May 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My read on the name is that it's conciliatory: a nod to social justice and catholic social teaching, and likewise a nod to the thomists, so different vibrant corners in the Church's life.