Tag Archives: Quakerism

agitated realms beyond melancholy

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

The long arc of hereticism. Modernism and baggage of hereticism it bring with it, the deep sack of neuroses festering sometimes into the outbreaks of pathology and brilliance often equally and simultaneously, is today, a sort  of anguished repudiation; reactions … Continue reading →

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those dodgy heretics: mystic encounters of the third kind

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Dave

The heretics who dodged the inconvenient texts of Scripture by allegory and symbolism relied ultimately on mysticism. Not all mystics of course were heretics; it seemed to depend on which texts they dodged. But the basic theory of mysticism was … Continue reading →

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puritans: pure heresy of rational “choice”

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

Pagan gods became Christian saints. “Apostolic poverty” was forgotten. Puritanism has been a recurrent heresy of the Christian church; a confrontation between the “unforgettable age of the apostles,” this imaginary church, and the great department of state the real church … Continue reading →

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JOY OF COOKING

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Dave

” give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you’ll see the authentic alternative lifestyle, the agrarian one”. ( Bob Dylan, liner notes, World Gone Wrong ) Food for thought. Second helpings, … Continue reading →

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