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Hello Roger – have just re-read this post – it is so profound! Are you still... - roger on 5 March 2010
Philip, thank you for this unexpected kind encouragement again and prayers! After finding your... - philip johnson on 3 March 2010
your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you Benjamin for this beautiful quote and for your warm words. They help, for much the... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you so much Philip. This kind, warm encouragement means a lot to us. For this internet... - roger on 28 February 2010
Yes Edwin. Catholicism is a living, growing tradition. I cannot help but feel that part of... - Benjamin on 25 February 2010
Revisited your blog; I am thankful for your journey and witness to me. I will revisit... - philip johnson on 24 February 2010
great writing.you are true followers of the one true faith. god bless .philip. - Edwin Shendelman on 24 February 2010
“For I really have come to believe that a de-sacramentalised,... - roger on 23 February 2010
Yes Edwin. There is a favourite quote of mine that makes old friends of mine yawn by now.... - Edwin Shendelman on 23 February 2010
I guess what I am trying to get at here is the need to hold two different ideas... - roger on 22 February 2010
Thank you for this Edwin. My original post invoked the word STRUGGLE quite consciously I...
- epsilon on 8 March 2010
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Tag Archives: Capitalism
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment III
At the end of preceding segment, I turned to the subject of hope. For I share a world with many who are losing hope as to the sustainability of our present civilisation.
And as I have written earlier in this little series, I myself have little hope in the prospects of creating an ultimately sustainable civilisation [...]
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Book Review: When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
A Great Tree Trunk for understanding Corporate Control and the Idols of Modern Secular Civilisation.
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment
Is the only means for saving human civilisation through the restoration of the lost authority of the Church?
Is the only means of restoring the lost authority of the Church through the undoing of so, so much that happened in the wake of Vatican II?
Whatever the merit of these questions and however bizarre they will no doubt appear [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings IV (Valentin Tomberg on False Hierarchy)
I no longer recall my exact words of course.
But the essence of the conversation remains engraved on my mind.
It was a warm, sunny Spring day in France. People in shirt sleeves were frolicking in the shine. But it was too warm, too pleasant. It was too early in the Spring.
My beloved turned to me and said: “We aren´t going to [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings III (Valentin Tomberg on Law and the Goddess Economy)
What kind of civilisation is it, that could result in the most unimaginable scale of loss as that suggested by Global Warming?
Is it arguably not a civilisation which has placed certain goods - or gods – above all else? For example, the exterior good of scientific progress over and above the interior good of prayer, veneration, devotion [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings II (Valentin Tomberg on Disintegration – Death)
My last web entry tried to introduce the personal context within which I try to grapple with Global Warming.
It is the context, as I said, of a practising Catholic aspiring to deep and very regular Sacramental Communion. It is also that of ongoing study of Catholic Tradition and the history of the transition from a Western medieval Catholic world [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged environment, Epistemology, Law, Materialism, Valentin Tomberg 2 Comments
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings Part I (Introduction)
Authority … one has authority or competence to speak about something the more consciously and fully one has experienced it. In writing of things New Age for example, I feel a certain degree of confidence, given that I have had long, intimate involvement with this phenomena. I completely identified with the New Age movement for many [...]
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The Predators
Recently at her weblog here, my beloved wrote about her reaction to The Guardian, a high quality British daily newspaper:
“I feel bombarded. I feel ‘preached’ at. Preached at in a way that is relatively subtle. This is not tabloid journalism or the gutter press. Nonetheless the choice of headlines, photographs and text tries to direct, [...]
Look at Me! Buy Me! Buy Me! Buy Me!
Some Personal/Global observations …
Those following this website may have noticed a difference by now: the appearance of Amazon advertising in a project that expresses its concerns, grave concerns, about the rise of global materialism and global capitalism.
For my own part, what is even more noticeable, is a certain psychological process in myself since the adverts [...]
The Moral Oxygen of Valentin Tomberg
Broken Record: There are delays in resuming this weblog - at least in the way I had originally envisaged – while I need to ponder and indeed struggle with certain interior considerations. “Broken record” I say, as I have been saying this for weeks now …
I think I am nearing resolution. In the meantime, I am [...]
Pointing and Stammering: French Noël 2006
A fragmentary, very personal piece touching on Catholic France, the Sacred Heart, the Da Vinci Code, Valentin Tomberg, the Novus Ordo, global capitalism and more ...
Posted in Articles Also tagged Catholic France, Conspiracy, Da Vinci Code, Sacred Heart, Valentin Tomberg 8 Comments
Book Review: Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World – Donal Anthony Foley