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2013-07-11T06:56:14-07:00

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More Wisdom & Wisecracks of the Old Ones

Last updated on: July 11, 2013 at 6:56 am By Aidan Kelly

From Herakeitos: Anodos katados - the way up and the way down are one and the same. If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not discover it, for it cannot be searched for and is hard to comprehend. Read more

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2013-07-10T04:53:59-07:00

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Wisdom & Wisecracks of the Old Ones

Last updated on: July 10, 2013 at 4:53 am By Aidan Kelly

Once someone asked Victor Anderson why he used a red tablecloth on the altar. He replied, “Because I had a red tablecloth.” Read more

2013-06-26T13:41:13-07:00

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On My Love for Sophia, Our Lady of Wisdom and Mercy

Last updated on: June 26, 2013 at 1:41 pm By Aidan Kelly

It is common to suppose that knowledge is not wisdom, but just what is the difference between them? Mapping knowledge is easy enough: mathematics, science, humanities, social studies (they should be scholarly, but they are not sciences), then dividing them into categories, subcategories, and so on, down to a subncategory small enough that one can know everything relevant to that tiny slice of reality. That is the ambition of almost every academic researcher. But as a result, said researcher knows... Read more

2013-06-24T06:32:01-07:00

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Wisdom Is Sold in the Desolate Market

Last updated on: June 24, 2013 at 6:32 am By Aidan Kelly

There is an accurate and depressing blog by a colleague on Patheos titled “How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps.” His point is that the 1%, the only class in America that can create, implement, and finance long-term plans, decided back in the 1960s to eliminate the kinds of people (intellectuals) who could oppose their stupidity and greed. Read more

2013-06-18T05:47:24-07:00

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Blogging as Dedication to the Search

Last updated on: June 18, 2013 at 5:47 am By Aidan Kelly

The name that Star Foster and I thought up for this blog, “Including Paganism,” indicates that I intend to look at lots of religions, *including Paganism,* in terms of what they have in common, of what each uniquely offers, and of what the theological invariants are that underlie all human need for religion. Read more

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2013-06-10T05:35:28-07:00

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A Prayer That I Hope Many More Can Say

Last updated on: June 10, 2013 at 5:35 am By Aidan Kelly

I’ve tried before to rewrite the “Lord’s Prayer” into a prayer for Pagans. This morning other words began to drop into my mind, like raindrops raising ripples on a pond, adding phrase by phrase that many people besides Pagans might not be afraid to say. Read more

2013-06-08T14:35:23-07:00

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The Problem of Consciousness, Part II

Last updated on: June 8, 2013 at 2:35 pm By Aidan Kelly

I have derived what I hope are some valid insights into the nature of time and consciousness from thinking about Blake’s descriptions of his eidetic imagery, which I did not know about, despite having done Blake for one of my Master’s orals, until I saw Jacob Bronowski’s episode about Blake done as an addendum to his Ascent of Man series. Bronowski said that he expected to be reading about an amusing English eccentric, but instead found himself looking into one... Read more

2013-06-03T17:12:23-07:00

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The Problem of Consciousness, Part I

Last updated on: June 3, 2013 at 5:12 pm By Aidan Kelly

Why do we have two minds? The Deep Mind is the one that dreams at night. Read more

2013-05-28T19:26:48-07:00

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Thoughts on Infinity and Suchlike on a Slow Day

Last updated on: May 28, 2013 at 7:26 pm By Aidan Kelly

Having apparently had a ministroke on the I-5 in the sophisticated metropolis of Fife last Friday, as a result of which I totaled our minivan by rear-ending the pickup in front of me, I am further behind on blogging than I want to be. So for today I’m going to assemble some fragments, in no particular order, that I intend to expand upon later. Also, my students are taking their final exam on Written Analysis at the moment. I. Trying... Read more

2013-05-22T12:21:44-07:00

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The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part IV

Last updated on: May 22, 2013 at 12:21 pm By Aidan Kelly

In Part III of this series, I pointed out that Mk (The Gospel According to Mark) is not a simple reporting of unadorned facts, but is instead a carefully constructed literary masterpiece. That Mark constructed his gospel carefully was actually known in antiquity. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, in his Detection and Refutation of Knowledge Falsely So Called (still one of the most important sources of information about the “Gnostics,” since Irenaeus had the good sense not to set forth a... Read more

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