Counting to infinity by infinity…

MAJOR PREMISE: It is not possible to measure an infinite magnitude.
POSTULATE: The very act of measuring, or quantitatively delimiting, puts an incoherent ‘cap’ on infinity.
MINOR PREMISE: It is possible to measure the universe. It is possible at the very least to measure matter, and material objects, as the constitution of the universe.
CAVEAT: The inability to [...]

Been a long time since…

…blog and roll.
(All right, for that, you can punch me if you meet me and are a Zeppelin fan, the latter being a sufficient condition, the former being a necessary one. … Yes, I just punched myself.)
Except for the two posts I just added, I haven’t done anything on this blog for a few months. [...]

The expansive logic of love…

…versus the sterile logic of contraception.
Love by its very nature seeks to issue in something greater than either the beloved on his own or the lover in the abstract. Love seeks to issue in a higher synthesis comprised of the lover-with-his-beloved. Love is, therefore, intrinsically generative and expansive. Bene ergo dicitur bonum diffusum sui (Therefore [...]

Taking a watch apart…

…is lots more fun than putting it back together.
Someone asked me today about a question her roommate asked her not long ago. If we live our whole lives without God but then repent at the last minute, won’t God forgive us and save us? If not, how can you say He is so loving? If [...]

A Nation Born Blind

Being too lazy to write a new essay on the occasion of today’s anniversary, I take the liberty of cribbing from my own blog from last year on this day. There are some interesting comments on the original post–check them out here.
In the Gospels Our Lord is sometimes portrayed as healing the blind, as though [...]