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On Genesis4 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 months ago: “We always know who we should love \ but we’re never certain how.” John K. Samson. From the da … more →

Tags: Love, Eros Sophia, Understanding, Selfhood, wonderment, Epiphany, metaphyics, Theology, Human Nature

L'Chaim15 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 4 months ago: It is incomprehensible to me the absurdity of life. How sudden despair with depth and edges like tee … more →

Tags: Love, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, Epiphany, metaphyics, ontology, death, Life

The Great Gig in the Sky8 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 5 months ago: “I think its time we compiled a list of places that we shouldn’t go.” – Maxi … more →

Tags: Love, Eros Sophia, Understanding, Modernity, sex, Selfhood, Magnanimity, humility, logic

Walking Shadow3 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 6 months ago: “A representation, however, changes neither the environment for the condition of the organism … more →

Tags: Selfhood, Questioning, metaphyics, Theology, image, likeness., humankind, Hans Jonas, goethe

Much Ado About Nothing II1 comment

veritasexnihilo wrote 9 months ago: Nothing can only exist if there is a something in relation to it to define its absence. Likewise if … more →

Tags: Understanding, wonderment, Questioning, Epiphany, ontology, Nothing, being, time, fred bauer

What I Know Part VI - Gettin' Organizized11 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 11 months ago: Organization, so far as I can tell, is the way of determining the order of things. “Good … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, Questioning, Epistemology, knowledge, being

What I Know Part V - Reason and Relation5 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 11 months ago: It is said previously that I know I am in relation to the Other. While I do know this it becomes tri … more →

Tags: Epistemology, logic, Modernity, Questioning, Selfhood, Understanding, being, Body, Existence

What is a table without material or purpose?7 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: All things are composed of two things which aren’t things composed of anything really. To say, for i … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, Questioning, Epistemology, Epiphany, absurd

Things That Increase My Hope For Humanity Part I3 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: Setting: Starbucks, late afternoon \ early evening, a mother and daughter are waiting for their drin … more →

Tags: Love, Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, humility, wonderment, Questioning, Epiphany, language

A short Entry: To reaffirm my beliefs to myself

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: “This truth seeks itself through the movement of writing: the third form that reveals the meas … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Understanding, Modernity, logic, wonderment, Epistemology, Epiphany, reality

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, Time, the child … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, wonderment, Nothing, being, time, schism, light

O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!3 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago:  Arriving Where We Are Finally we take an frightening step out from underneath the shadow of ‘ … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, Nothing, Philosophy, Beinghood, big bang

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.1 comment

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: In the last post the inherent effects of separated beings was elucidated, though not clarified. Befo … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, Philosophy, being, Non-Being, ontology

To Be or Not to Be - Why is this a question?

veritasexnihilo wrote 1 year ago: It was originally my intention to write about the question: what does it mean to be human? – a … more →

Tags: Understanding, Modernity, Selfhood, logic, wonderment, being, Nothingness, Proof, Questioning

Part II - Poetmadman: Trogolodyte or Spelunker?7 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 years ago: Subtitle: The Light at the end of Cave  The assumption of the poet mad man, inherent in poetic rathe … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Understanding, Selfhood, wonderment, Philosophy, Poetry, Poet Mad Man, Cave Image, Western Civilization

The Nature of the Poet\Madman (part I)2 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 years ago: subtitle: On the inherent need of insanity for ’salvation’ (pardon this use in term … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Understanding, Modernity, Philosophy, Poetry, Madness, Poet, duty, sophia

The Poet\Madman I2 comments

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 years ago: Philosophy and poetry are games were small mistakes have big consequences. It is dangerous enough th … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Modernity, logic, Philosophy, Poetry

To Bellarmin: A letter to Humanity

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 years ago: O you who seek the highest and the best, whether in the depths of knowledge, in the turmoil of actio … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Understanding

The Shoulders of Giants

veritasexnihilo wrote 2 years ago: “Or is it that even blackness must, every so often, however rarely, partake of the heavens? … more →

Tags: Eros Sophia, Modernity, Selfhood, renaissance, Art, Worship, Culture,


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