tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post1120986052846081847..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Come Josephine...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-32199822719569144222016-02-16T18:46:38.908+00:002016-02-16T18:46:38.908+00:00Precisely.
On "wandering stars," I am i...Precisely.<br /><br />On "wandering stars," I am inclined to recall the hairy star of the Bayeux Tapestry, seen as a portent of ill omen by the English. Even so, that was a natural phenomenon. Man made stars, satellites, synthetic angels to watch us (but not "watch over" us)...that is a whole other story.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-17706913216593411882016-02-16T16:30:04.811+00:002016-02-16T16:30:04.811+00:00But your main point is that flying per se might be...But your main point is that flying per se might be bad for us. I'm inclined to consider the argument, since there isn't a single story that I can think of, sacred or profane, where mortals flying - without divine assistance or mandate like Perseus or Elijah - isn't a sign of pride and followed swiftly by disaster. Incidentally, I've often wondered how one learned in the lore of the stars would read the appearance of the satellites visibly in the sky, new "wandering stars"... perhaps Chiron would have been able to see that they were omens or portents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-10795953924010488692016-02-15T18:25:42.217+00:002016-02-15T18:25:42.217+00:00Recently I noticed that I used the term 'evolu...Recently I noticed that I used the term 'evolutionarily normal' instead of normal, because the new normal is decidedly dysgenic and borne of responses from an artificial environment. Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758314961163692341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-67311927173705305652016-02-15T18:17:18.077+00:002016-02-15T18:17:18.077+00:00You have said in a paragraph what I was groping bl...You have said in a paragraph what I was groping blindly in the dark for a very long-winded and verbose article to say. I wish I had more than a gut feeling about things sometimes.<br /><br />Of course, we must be mindful of this life too. When the machines fail, what becomes of us? Since we are so hopelessly dependent upon them...Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-6334887157541618332016-02-15T16:44:33.536+00:002016-02-15T16:44:33.536+00:00Travel isn't through empty "space", ...Travel isn't through empty "space", it is through particular places with a spiritual reality & thus to whizz through - or above them - is to alter the spiritual nature of travel significantly, perhaps tempt us to a disdain for our creatureliness. And that in two ways, (1) in tempting us to think we are gods without the reality of theosis, and (2) in tempting us to "use" things without due thankfulness and regard for creation's sacramental nature. I think it must be (morally) similar to winning the lottery. It gives one something for too little effort and so must corrupt us. Someone or something is paying for all these modern luxuries, probably us eventually. A very long walk up Mount Purgatory for us moderns, without engines (if we are so fortunate as to be there).<br /><br />I am tempted to correct Tolkien above, and say that he should have said that the failure of desire in our machinery, and the desire of such Power, are something to do with the Fall, and not only the use of machinery for evil purposes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com