Recent content by salishan

truth ... (evolving standards , at the tipping-point) i like the word "truth" i.e. ... when not over-applied , it is a very useful word but it is a functional concept i.e. truth is always relative is relative to what it purports to be describing i.e. truth is contingent not quite...

Radarmark the Reptile the earth was a wetter & warmer place during the era of the big lizards , the dinosaurs & the earth might still be that way today , & still ruled by the big lizards if that massive comet had not hit Yucatan & plunged the planet into a long freeze it was not the big...

Radarmark exquisite creature this post of u'rs is such a lovely piece of prose with such heart-felt sentiments , that i felt the need to clean-out its verbal excursions & reiterations to return your thoughts to their core beauty to essentialize u'r phrasing to how ... they first struck me (i...

Azure24 exquisite creature for all the sophisticated turns to the arguing by u'r detractors i believe u'r arguments stand-up , & those of your detractors fail when talking about freewill , u start from the right place the emotions (impulses , glandular releases) u do not make their...

Thomas exquisite creature like u'r beloved Aquinas (whom i genuinely admire) i am trying to "place before my reader" a consistent theory of human existence & divine involvement therein a. humans , being of the same substance but intrinsically distinct from animals & b. Gyd , being...

Thomas exquisite creature to the current generation of neo-Darwinians , a human organism exists for just one reason to serve the Selfish Gene (inside of it) , to help this gene survive & multiply to these scientists , the genome is a form that names itself "perfect" then seeks to prevail...

Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature Aristotle makes some biological observations/speculations that 19th century biologists confirm so u'r "Philosopher" has a good eye , is not merely an adventurous speculative-thinker however i am aware of no physicist since Isaac Newton's day who has...

Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature Copernicus (like Columbus before him) is a bit of a shyster a shameless self-promoter who borrows one great-big idea (which has been floating around for awhile) & makes the idea his own even though the math does not support his particular version of the idea...

Thomas Aquinas exquisite creature i admire the facility with which u can argue the pros & cons of any question & make a reasonable case for each position but it leaves me a little confused as to what stance u ultimately rest upon i assume u conclude that there is lesser & greater "Light" at...

Thomas exquisite creature in the ancient world (reinforced by Classical scholars) "grace" is frequently characterized (via analogy) as "light" any "analog" reality (reality reasoned-out by metaphors) is inevitably a tricky proposition (associative reasoning is circular , it has a...

Thomas exquisite creature i like the concept of grace ( it doesn't contradict my theology ) but as a concept it is pretty freakin' merky don't u think ? how does grace work ? is this the same as saying how does Gyd work (thru us) ? mechanisms what are the moral/spiritual...

Servetus exquisite creature throughout my promiscuous 20s i have lain around naked with many a boy talking & talking but i will not sleep with him till i (with certitude) feel his ego drop away the utter selfishness of orgasm (fornication as sport) is not what sex is about , for me...

i can't speak for others but i tend to have my surges of religious feeling in periods of low libido so , to me the elephant in the room when talking about religion the whale in the Sanctuary , as it were is sex the old New England church at the beginning of John Huston's film-version of Moby...

u are not an afterthought of Gyd my friend Isaac tells me Gyd's gift to u , is not immortal life but this life , this breath of the Divine which Gyd has lent u xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ben Masada exquisite creature i find u'r initial post thoughtful & deeply affecting believe me , i get it but with...

washed clothes stacked on bed striding down the watershed trail i stop "oh Ma!" heaves from my chest far-off bald eagle slowly wings by