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Did my senior thesis on 1 Enoch. Still have my copy of John Collins’s “Apocalyptic Imagination.”

Exactly. Anthroposophy proposes a broader field of experience opened through imagination. This is the epistemic tension in Steiner and Goethe, as their insight is at once rational (ie theoretical) and empirical.

Probably pecans. Walnuts are a close second. Acorns are fun to play with but weird to eat… though they are an indigenous staple in my area of the PNW.

In other words, Christians must embrace some vision of apokatastasis, or universal restoration, or else warrant their own extinction through Trumpist soul rot.

Recent years have compelled me to think that there’s a direct connection between the fire-and-brimstone “infernalist” version of Christianity and the existence of Christo-fascism, just as a historical rule… would be hard to convince me otherwise.

Lol is that the exhaust hood for the stove upstairs beside the bed?

Your Young Idealist video on Hölderlin is excellent. One of my favorites. I have the audio saved for relistening!

Clara bears annual rereading, usually in the autumn.

You get a remote job in tech, of course.

Oregonian come home.

Amazing image — do you know the artist?

1, if I had to choose.

Spent the day on a pencil sketch of Friedrich Schiller because… why not?

The postliberal panic about voluntarism never seemed so disingenuous as it does now.

Haha point taken… I used to teach high school and wouldn’t have subjected those students to it, but if you want to hear thirty fourth graders hoot and holler read them Macavity! Also Murder in the Cathedral would’ve made a gnarly musical.

Au contraire! I teach elementary school — the poems are spectacular to read and recite with children.

True! I was being mostly tongue-in-cheek of course.

Nero setting Rome on fire might be the closest analogy one can find.

A genealogy of Trumpism via postliberal theology and reactionary conservatism — IOW, how we got from the Tractarians to Trump.

I think this is right. There is gratuity but also a certain lawfulness in any act of creation. The analogy to theology and God as Creator would seek to be apt for those of us who object to a concept of God as pure will (or just whim, which is all an untethered will can ever be).

I read something years ago comparing DBH to GKC as a stylistic provocateur, among other things. It’s not an unmerited comparison, though I’d say DBH is fists where GK is knives.

Obviously not a name to throw around in mixed company! But anyway his philosophical lectures and essays interpreting Goethe are fascinating.

Rudolf Steiner

Often have I wondered this as well. After spending a while away, I feel the role of social media for me over the years has been fluid and never purely healthy or unhealthy. My engagement ebbs and flows like the rest of life’s goings on.

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

What’s your favorite work by Cusanus?

A Goethean Song & An Original Opusculum When even God will not do: two short works on the theme of inexplicable longing.

If only, O Eternal One,
You were enough for me —

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Makes sense. I actually wonder about this a lot — how do i intuit another self that is as identical to itself as I am to myself yet which I cannot know immediately. I wonder if my own self is somehow willed more intensively whereas the other is known by way of reflection (a sort of empathy I guess).