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  1. salishan

    Conjectures and Refutations

    truth ... (evolving standards , at the tipping-point) i like the word "truth" i.e. ... when not over-applied , it is a very useful word but it is a functional concept i.e. truth is always relative is relative to what it purports to be describing i.e. truth is contingent not quite...
  2. salishan

    The Divine Connexion

    Radarmark the Reptile the earth was a wetter & warmer place during the era of the big lizards , the dinosaurs & the earth might still be that way today , & still ruled by the big lizards if that massive comet had not hit Yucatan & plunged the planet into a long freeze it was not the big...
  3. salishan

    Free will is an oxymoron

    Radarmark exquisite creature this post of u'rs is such a lovely piece of prose with such heart-felt sentiments , that i felt the need to clean-out its verbal excursions & reiterations to return your thoughts to their core beauty to essentialize u'r phrasing to how ... they first struck me (i...
  4. salishan

    Free will is an oxymoron

    Azure24 exquisite creature for all the sophisticated turns to the arguing by u'r detractors i believe u'r arguments stand-up , & those of your detractors fail when talking about freewill , u start from the right place the emotions (impulses , glandular releases) u do not make their...
  5. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas exquisite creature like u'r beloved Aquinas (whom i genuinely admire) i am trying to "place before my reader" a consistent theory of human existence & divine involvement therein a. humans , being of the same substance but intrinsically distinct from animals & b. Gyd , being...
  6. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas exquisite creature to the current generation of neo-Darwinians , a human organism exists for just one reason to serve the Selfish Gene (inside of it) , to help this gene survive & multiply to these scientists , the genome is a form that names itself "perfect" then seeks to prevail...
  7. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature Aristotle makes some biological observations/speculations that 19th century biologists confirm so u'r "Philosopher" has a good eye , is not merely an adventurous speculative-thinker however i am aware of no physicist since Isaac Newton's day who has...
  8. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature Copernicus (like Columbus before him) is a bit of a shyster a shameless self-promoter who borrows one great-big idea (which has been floating around for awhile) & makes the idea his own even though the math does not support his particular version of the idea...
  9. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature i admire the facility with which u can argue the pros & cons of any question & make a reasonable case for each position but it leaves me a little confused as to what stance u ultimately rest upon i assume u conclude that there is lesser & greater "Light" at...
  10. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas exquisite creature in the ancient world (reinforced by Classical scholars) "grace" is frequently characterized (via analogy) as "light" any "analog" reality (reality reasoned-out by metaphors) is inevitably a tricky proposition (associative reasoning is circular , it has a...
  11. salishan

    The Nature of Grace

    Thomas exquisite creature i like the concept of grace ( it doesn't contradict my theology ) but as a concept it is pretty freakin' merky don't u think ? how does grace work ? is this the same as saying how does Gyd work (thru us) ? mechanisms what are the moral/spiritual...
  12. salishan

    8-limbed 2-headed sweatcreature

    Servetus exquisite creature throughout my promiscuous 20s i have lain around naked with many a boy talking & talking but i will not sleep with him till i (with certitude) feel his ego drop away the utter selfishness of orgasm (fornication as sport) is not what sex is about , for me...
  13. salishan

    8-limbed 2-headed sweatcreature

    i can't speak for others but i tend to have my surges of religious feeling in periods of low libido so , to me the elephant in the room when talking about religion the whale in the Sanctuary , as it were is sex the old New England church at the beginning of John Huston's film-version of Moby...
  14. salishan

    I Am That I Am

    u are not an afterthought of Gyd my friend Isaac tells me Gyd's gift to u , is not immortal life but this life , this breath of the Divine which Gyd has lent u xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ben Masada exquisite creature i find u'r initial post thoughtful & deeply affecting believe me , i get it but with...
  15. salishan

    Poet Tree

    washed clothes stacked on bed striding down the watershed trail i stop "oh Ma!" heaves from my chest far-off bald eagle slowly wings by
  16. salishan

    Poet Tree

    without thought , i reach between my legs , a neutered joy , sandpiper tracks
  17. salishan

    Poet Tree

    spring gallery walk disappointments 1 i do wish that gallery art were a little skankier it is neurotically clean ( is it the white gallery walls , forcing art to be scrubbed & tidy & ever-so-slightly antiseptic ? ) whatever art's disease is i'd kind of like to catch it that germ in art...
  18. salishan

    Free Will

    in a "state of nature" , there is no free-will there is only instinctual pre-programming in the "status quo of culture" , there is only a choice of "options" & "choice" is consumerism , not free-will there is not free-will where "ego" or "ideology" is present (not where "instinct" or...
  19. salishan

    Poet Tree

    u stand , my naked skin goose-pimples all over squawking quail take flight
  20. salishan

    Poet Tree

    it's sometimes like we are each searching in the interior caverns of our mind , desperately to find a cylindrical rock passage where we meet each other face to face we keep talking , keep feeling our way , hoping to find a place in each other's nether worlds where we don't have to talk anymore...
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