Or my own acceptance that we do not really think at all; that we correlate around super-magnets that I call Dominants–a Spiritual Dominant in one age, and responsively to it up spring monasteries, and the stake and the cross are its symbols: a Materialist Dominant, and up spring laboratories, and microscopes and telescopes and crucibles are its ikons–that … [Read more...] about Or my own acceptance
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If it is our acceptance that out of the negative
If it is our acceptance that, out of the Negative Absolute, the Positive Absolute is generating itself, recruiting, or maintaining, itself, via a third state, or our own quasi-state, it would seem that we’re trying to conceive of Universalness manufacturing more Universalness from Nothingness. Take that up yourself, if you’re willing to run the risk of disappearing … [Read more...] about If it is our acceptance that out of the negative
it is reasonable to think of some coincidence
It is reasonable to think of some coincidence between the fall of hail and the fall of other things: but, inasmuch as there have been a good many instances, we begin to suspect that this is not so much a book we’re writing as a sanitarium for overworked coincidences. Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p183 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about it is reasonable to think of some coincidence
The fate of all explanation
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p30 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about The fate of all explanation
As to free will and intermediatism
As to free will and Intermediatism–same answer as to everything else. By free will we mean Independence–or that which does not merge away into something else–so, in Intermediateness, neither free-will nor slave-will–but a different approximation for every so-called person toward one or the other of the extremes. The hackneyed way of expressing this seems … [Read more...] about As to free will and intermediatism