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In math, an asymptote of a curve is “a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as one or both of the x or y coordinates tends to infinity” (Wikipedia). Maybe you hate math, but bear with me for a minute. Imagine that you need to walk to the door…
Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus [1] Continuing on the theme of a prior post, it further occurs to me that sometimes people mix up the questions how does the universe work?

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It is wrong, the nineteenth-century British mathematician W. K. Clifford affirmed, “always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon…
To take but one example, a Christian theologian may on occasion put forward and defend the trinitarian formula that 'God is three persons in one being…
Acquiring the Spirit of God is the true aim of our Christian life, while prayer, fasting, almsgiving and other good works done for Christ's sake are…
Public domain; source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_-_Coronation_of_the_Virgin_-_Prado.jpg Wisdom (Sophia) speaks: The Lord…
Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons …that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be…
James Tissot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Psalm 22 There seems to be a very good chance that Jesus…
Judgment and belief regarding actions to be performed can never attain more than a precarious probability. William James, The Quest for Certainty In…
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite…
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