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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:07 -0700

Countercultures

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:12 -0700

"...we do not study the history of religion in any serious way, even for explanations of religious phenomena. Instead, we look for sociological explanations, or economic explanations, or even political explanations, and we do so precisely because we find it almost impossible to posit spiritual appetites and spiritual passions as independent, primary forces in human history.
Yet they are, or they can be. Take the rise of Puritanism in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare's England. At that time the Church of England was the most tolerant of all national churches. It was a church with a beautiful liturgy and a host of first-rate thinkers. And England itself was the most prosperous and the freest society in the Western world, with a glorious secular culture. So why should people, especially young people among whom were many women, suddenly decide that they wanted to be, of all things, Puritans?
All one can say is that these things happen, that the spirit bloweth where it listeth, and that sometimes all you need to generate a counterculture is an orthodoxy against which it can rebel. For no orthodoxy can ever fully satisfy our spiritual appetites and our spiritual passions."

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Howard Pyles Book of Pirates, compiled by Merle Johnson

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:33:39 -0700

Christ Tormented by Henry de Groux :: artmagick.com

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:41:49 -0700

A Few Thoughts on Humor and Being Human

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:51:50 -0700

"Laughter involves a forgetting-of-self, with its twisted facial contortions and a temporary loss of control. In this light, there is an obvious link between spirituality and humor. Holiness and humor are not strangers, but close allies. There is no laughter in hell, the spiritually dead are not capable of genuine humor, because they will not exit or forget themselves. They are incapable of ecstacy. All they know is sardonic laughter that is not so much humor as it is ridicule."

Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 2009

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:53:29 -0700

"The current habit of desecrating beauty suggests that people are as aware as they ever were of the presence of sacred things. Desecration is a kind of defense against the sacred, an attempt to destroy its claims. In the presence of sacred things, our lives are judged, and to escape that judgment, we destroy the thing that seems to accuse us."

José Ortega y Gasset - Wikiquote

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:05:47 -0700

"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."

Gustav Dore Illustrations of Don Quixote

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:29:22 -0700

Letras Libres - "COMPILACI�N DE AFORISMOS" por Nicol�s G�mez D�vila

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:52:13 -0700

"En un siglo donde los medios de publicidad divulgan infinitas tonter�as, el hombre culto no se define por lo que sabe sino por lo que ignora."

Ricefield #4: Photo by Photographer Lester A. Garcia - photo.net

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:34:47 -0800