No, not a Dan Brown novel; this is real. And the implications for western philosophy are fascinating.
h/t Insty
Laura Curtis
pursuing holiness, following politics
Eat, Pray, Be Intolerant
Interesting review of Eat, Pray, Love:
“But warning bells about her spiritual sincerity start to go off when she admits she is willing to look everywhere (apparently in the whole wide world) for God, except in anything resembling orthodox Christianity.”
That’s a feature, not a bug
From WSJ, a probe to see whether Congress is misusing travel stipends:
“Some lawmakers said it has been a longstanding custom of lawmakers in both parties to keep any extra money. If lawmakers weren’t allowed to keep leftover travel funds, “you could never get many members traveling,” said Mr. Ortiz, the Texas Democrat, in an interview earlier this year.”
And the problem with that would be… ?
Exactly
I had to laugh when I read Henry’s post, Five Sites I Read Because I Disagree. That’s the same reason I read Henry’s site – we’re generally on the same page, faith-wise, but Henry offers thoughtful, cogent defenses of politics a good deal more liberal than my own. (Though he’s much closer to the center than I am.) Mind you, I still disagree. But as iron sharpens iron, so an opposing blogger sharpens another. 
If a Fox News anchor said this…
there would be liberal heads exploding and demands for the raaaaacist’s immediate resignation.
Not even in an alternate universe.
Wesley Snipes as Geordi in ST: TNG? Denise Crosby as Troi instead of Tasha Yar?
That’s unimaginable, even in a J.J. Abrams alternate universe.
I saw that on there last night, but I didn’t think it made much sense.
The awe and beauty we feel in nature, Plato says, shows that it is divine; discovering the scientific order of nature is getting closer to God.
Um….duh? Generations of Catholics have known this. I seem to remember one of those Disney cartoons where Donald was taught by the Interactive Narrator that Music and Art and Math are all entwined.
OTOH, if it gets the notion across, more power to ‘em.
Foxfier recently posted..Our Lady of Akita
“The heavens declare the glory of God,” indeed.
Also – “there is no new thing under the sun.”
That was a bit of news I hadn’t stumbled across – it’s bookmarked. I tend to agree with Foxfier on this though, and I’ll go a step further: anyone in the Middle Ages, whether Catholic or Islamic, probably was aware of those clusters of musical discussion occurring in twelfths.
What it means is a different story. Given the lack of scientific progress the Athenian stranger allows in the “Laws,” and the very restrictive ordering of the Republic, one has to say issues might be a bit more complicated than that press release lets on.
ashok recently posted..Socrates in Hades- On Plato’s Protagoras- Part I