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Posted on April 19, 2019April 19, 2019

“Mars Ever Nearer”, John Jay Speredakos – Chaleuer Magazine

  I liked this poem  by John Jay Speredakos of the recurrent  violent reciprocity of conflict and war. Mars Ever Nearer Twenty millennia ago when we made spears, we did…

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Posted on March 18, 2019

Jarod Gott on Tinder, writing and the presentation of the self

Recently I was at Dreams, Hallucinations and the Imagination, a conference organised by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. Dreams and like experiences are an interest…

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Posted on August 22, 2018

“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of” – a thought from René Girard

“All are drawn unwittingly into the structure of violent reciprocity -which they always think they are outside of- because they all initially come from the outside and mistake this positional…

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Posted on July 12, 2018

The wisdom of silence

Adam de Ville has a particularly good post on Eastern Christian Books on Terry Eagleton’s book on sacrifice. This is an especially rich post covering a range of topics… but…

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Posted on April 29, 2018

“The secret mimeticism beneath the surface of the assertion of autonomy”

From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie, here is a passage on “the cul-de-sac of autonomous individualism.” I have been reading a lot of and…

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Posted on April 8, 2018August 25, 2018

What do you want? (or, You Are What You Want)

From Gil Bailie‘s “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love”: “In any case, they were hardly prepared for a colloquy with the Lamb of God, the one poised to…

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Posted on February 10, 2018

Rene Girard – “Envy in our world is the real unconscious, the real taboo”

From “Reading the Bible with Rene Girard: Conversations with Steven E. Berry” by Michael Hardin, Scott Cowdell As for mediated desire, the more democratic the world becomes, the less concrete…

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