just intentions

You, who are so fond of denying the intrinsic existence of ideas, are the battleground of ferocious conflicts between ideas--your psyche has been ravaged like a land that's known generational war. You don't doubt that ideas exist--how could you? You wish that they didn't exist--you will them not to exist, as you would debilitating pain. You aspire to nominalism--it's the faith you want, not your true faith, which is idealism.

"On a white horse with a sword this time, not hanging on a cross."

source?

God is the greatest artist, yet his creations always go awry.

Lucifer, Adam and Eve

The brightest of the angels and the children of God's image both

supernatural selection

Do nothing you'd criminalize.

The number of atoms in your body approximates the number of stars in the universe.

The Turks crossed an Atlantic-sized steppe to colonize Anatolia--then added Greece, the Balkans. They were only stopped at Vienna (twice) from colonizing western Europe.

Or, in a broader view, they were only slowed. The future of Europe is Muslim--albeit after a longer interval than one might have reasonably preidcted circa 1460.

Hubrism is natural.

Ibn Khaldun

Equal time for Ibn Khaldun. A broader, deeper, subtler thinker than Marx--whose historical assumptions were colored by Judeo-Christian escatology.

Barely an exaggeration: European civilization is Italian civilization.

There are no atheists in foxholes? I say no theists.

Would permiting marriage to gay couples threaten the very insitution of matrimony? Not for any reason that I see. But if it did, then that would be one good reason to support gay marriage.

to Santayana

Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.

And so is everyone else.

Twilight made everything look like it was behind orange-red tinted glass.

Everyone is really someone else, suffering from not being who they really are.

What if the price of all of the art in the world is all of the pain in the world?

A writer? Of what? Stories? Poetry? Essays?

Of fragments. Floods of fragments.

Christians, what's your Christian duty to children in Africa dying of the absence of essentials in a world of plenty? 

The post American world will resemble, in many ways, the pre-American world, circa 1900. What broad historical process did the rise of American global power interupt?

Against a dull gray sky, the mountains are invisible, except for their dirty-white frosted peaks. They look like a belt of floating glaciers.

There's never been an atrocity so great that no-one felt the need to exaggerate it.