The Illusionist – The New Atlantis


The Illusionist

Daniel Dennett’s latest book marks five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness.

David Bentley Hart

It seems to me that we have come this way before. Some of the signposts are new, perhaps — “Bacteria,” “Bach,” and so on — but the scenery looks very familiar, if now somewhat overgrown, and it is hard not to feel that the path is the same one that Daniel Dennett has been treading for five decades. I suppose it would be foolish to expect anything else. As often as not, it is the questions we fail to ask — and so the presuppositions we leave intact — that determine the courses our arguments take; and Dennett has been studiously avoiding the same set of questions for most of his career.

Source: The Illusionist – The New Atlantis

The American Psychological Association is a Feminist, Partisan Organization – Jack Donovan


Jack Donovan’s assessment of the American Psychological Association.

Source: The APA is a Feminist, Partisan Organization – Jack Donovan

“If three members of the communist party peer-reviewed an analysis of capitalism, written by another member of the communist party, would you consider that analysis to be “scientific” or “objective”?

The American Psychological Association recently announced that “traditional masculinity” — or as I prefer to call it, masculinity — is psychologically “harmful.”

They claim that this designation is based on 40 years of peer-reviewed “research,” but in fact it is based on 40 years of people with the same philosophical and political bias repeating and affirming their beliefs back and forth to each other in a closed circle in which dissent is routinely dismissed or punished.

There’s no reason why one would expect a group of communists to produce an unbiased analysis of capitalism, and there’s no reason that one would expect a group dominated by women and avowed feminist activists and intellectuals to produce an unbiased analysis of masculinity. Their agenda is open, and Ryon McDermott, who helped develop these guidelines, proclaimed in the announcement that his goal was to “change the world” by “changing men.”

That’s crucial. The objective of the APA isn’t to help men better navigate the challenges of being what they are, but to change them completely.”

Jack Donovan

Jordan Peterson’s New 12 Rules for Life


!!peterson picRule 1: Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.

Rule 2: Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.

Rule 3: Work as hard as you possibly can, on at least one thing, and see what happens.

Rule 4: Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

Rule 5: Abandon ideology.

Rule 6: Notice that opportunity lurks, where responsibility has been abdicated.

Rule 7: Do not do things that you hate.

Rule 8: Try to make one room in your house as beautiful as possible.

Rule 9: If old memories still make you cry, write them down carefully and completely.

Rule 10: Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.

Rule 11: Be grateful, in spite of your suffering.

Rule 12: Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.

 

from January 2019 Q & A

Peace Prayer of Saint Francis


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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

England within England–C.S. Lewis


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professor kirks house“Why!” exclaimed Peter, “It’s England. And that’s the house itself—Professor Kirk’s old home in the country where all our adventures began!”

“I thought that house had been destroyed,” said Edmund.

“So it was,” said the Faun. “But you are now looking at the England within England, the real England just as this is the real Narnia. And in that inner England no good thing is destroyed.”

The Last Battle, C.S Lewis The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, page 523

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Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Christian Defense Of Donald Trump Has To Be Seen To Be Believed | Zack Hunt


(Source: Twitter) I know, I know. The headline seems like clickbait. But I promise it’s not. Jerry Falwell Jr. granted an interview to The Washington […]

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Sam Harris Asks Questions Jordan Peterson Can’t Answer | Esther O’Reilly


In debate with Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson mounts a pragmatic defense of religion. But only rationally grounded Christian faith can slay the old dragon of […]

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Jesus believed that so long as a man was away from God he was not truly himself–William Barclay


Jesus believed that so long as a man was away from God he was not truly himself; he was only truly himself wheWilliam Barclay 1907-1978n he was on the way home. Beyond a doubt Jesus did not believe in total depravity. He never believed that you could glorify God by blackguarding man; he believed that man was never essentially himself until he came home to God. William Barclay