John Adams, “There is an awful danger when the people become accustomed to tyranny. If the people learn to accept small abuses, then larger abuses will follow. It is like a disease, crippling slowly, until the body is beyond repair.” Pg 19 Rise to Rebellion Jeff Shaara
In the previous reflection, we looked at Isaiah’s vision and Charlie Kirk’s call — both marked by purification, surrender, and the courage to enter the public square. If Isaiah represents the prophet’s commission, then Charlie Kirk’s story also points us toward the next dimension: the appeal of youth. For it was not only his words…
Stoic? Not sure. Depends on how Peterson views suffering. Is it to be endured or seen as redemptive in union with JC? Also note, many videos of Peterson and the article titles are sensational. Caveat lector. “Peterson’s expertise as a debater and interviewee is not the place to stop this discussion. His great accomplishment is…
Philosophy> ideas stick around because they are true or persuasive (sophistry) Pre-Socratics Thales and His Followers (625 -545 BC) Pythagoras (535 BC flourished) *Parmenides of Elea (510 BC born) Hippocrates Socratics Socrates/ Plato (470-399 BC / 428-348 BC) Aristotle (384-322 BC) Neo-Platonists Plotinus (240-270 AD) Proclus (412-485 AD) Patristic (150-449 AD) Augustine (354-430…
I am a baby in the womb. I feel and hear my mother’s heart and warmth. I do not know her. But I share her blood. I do not know my father. But I share his life. I have nine months to learn whether I am wanted or unwanted by them and by all those…
“It is a cause of astonishment how quickly Catholics can forget the major documents of a deceased pontiff, as if a new pontiff is supposed to overshadow and even shut away the work of his predecessor. Catholics have (or should have) a Newmanian view of development, whereby everything of importance that comes before is cherished…
Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire‘s propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It’s very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don’t know…