the creative impulse in a nutshell

I? who am I?
a fugitive singer.
songs I make
butterflies of song
that bloom in the soul
for the heart's delight








                    Evan  S. Connell




















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new trends in cyberethics

Poe's law


...is an Internet adage that states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views.

difficult to be settled in the moment

Man…who lives in three places –
  in the past, in the present, and in the future –
can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless.
Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. 




                             




                                  Georg  Christoph  Lichtenberg
















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someone has to stand up to those bastards

the family
is the human race's natural defense
against utopianism








                   Michael Novak












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every system is a synthesis

 

 

 

 

 

　


Christianity as a work of art in Christ who is God's doxa,
human life as a theater of evil and grace in players and Player—in the last analysis,
Balthasar has given us in his systems works of art.
 Despite weaknesses that lie within these thousands of pages,
the greatness of the vision shines through the form.
The structure is the message.


                           Fr. Thomas O'Meara OP









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a good reminder

 






"In true faith
the ultimate concern is a concern about the truly ultimate;
while in idolatrous faith preliminary,
finite realities are elevated to the rank of ultimacy. 
 The inescapable consequence of idolatrous faith
 is 'existential disappointment,' 
 a disappointment which penetrates
into the very existence of man! 
This is the dynamics of idolatrous faith:
 that it is faith, and as such,
the centered act of a personality;
that the entering point is
 something which is more or less on the periphery;
and that, therefore,
the act of faith leads to a loss of center
 and to a disruption of the personality. 
The ecstatic character of even idolatrous faith
can hide this consequence only for a certain time. 
But finally it breaks into the open."

                                   

                                  --Paul Tillich, The Dynamics of Faith, Chapter 1.3








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the important thing is

The important thing is to learn to distinguish the left behind from the right behind.






      ......from:  craig ..over on Lutheran surrealism
















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