“Law of Least Effort”
“A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, p...
Category: Stuff
Ad-hoc thoughts for which I have failed to find an appropriate category; contemplation is, nevertheless, hoped for…
How the great truth dawned
newcriterion.com · by Gary Saul Morson Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume opus, The Gulag Archipelago, which some have called the most important masterpiece ...
“I cannot think it.”*
“Okay, if the Ecumenical Patriarch removed the anathema from me in 2018, then until 2018 was I under anathema or not? If I was under anathema, that means that a...
Patristic Source Texts
Patristic Source Texts
A book review with an apt conclusion . . .
How Polynesia came to be inhabited was, for many years, a mystery: “The centuries have thrown up a number of theories. Heyerdahl, for example, was convince...
Mood vs. Emotion: Differences & Traits
Five factors outlining the difference between mood and emotion In an excerpt taken from “The Nature Of Emotion”, Dr. Ekman lays out five factors for determining...
The Ladder of Divine Ascent – Step 24, The First Seven Paragraphs
Step 24 On meekness, simplicity, guilelessness which come not from nature but from habit, and about malice. 1. The morning light precedes the sun, and the precu...
No Local Church Supports the Ecumenical Patriarch
It’s all about the facts and salvation, not drama. Source: https://orthodoxsynaxis.org/2018/10/18/ukraine-church-controversy-frequently-asked-questions-faq/ The...
An Unrepentant Secularism
“Perhaps the greatest tragedy of life in a secularized world is the freedom from failure. The mantra of progress ignores every secular failure as an abiding ill...