New Blog

I've created another blog. This one has always been about philosophy and theology. Occasionally I want to write something that is only tenuously linked, at best, to those topics. Previously I've either not written it, or I've posted it here and felt that it was out of place. Now I'll post it at the other blog.

Popery et Potpourri. Check it out if you so desire.

We now return to our regularly scheduled program

So, as the last brief ethics post should make clear, I'm done writing about specific current events for the moment. Certain current events may inspire a brief post or two--after all, we do have an election coming up--but I'm done dealing with particular current events for at least awhile.

Looking back, that first post on the situation in the Caucasus was intemperate. At least the original post, though I think the edited addition was calmer and better laid out. Which I suppose goes to show that none of us are on-the-ball all the time. At least I'm not.

Anyway, back to regular postings. Though that sometimes means little to no posting unless an idea crosses my mind that keeps the thesis writing from progressing. Still, there are one or two posts I've mentioned that I really do want to write. The first one I'll try to get posted is the one I promised a commenter on predestination, hopefully before the end of the month.

Veritas et Caritas.

Wow.

This blog is normally lucky to average 10 or so unique hits a day. Then Mark Shea links a post and I get 245 unique hits (and still counting).

To any new visitors: If you like what you see, feel free to return. Substantive posts as time and duties allow, less substantive posts as whim warrants.

Future offerings are likely to include: why St. Thomas' much-bandied-about views on woman are both correct and, in the scheme of things, no big deal; St. Thomas as originalist; and a post on Dungeons & Dragons.

I aint’nt ded!

Like Granny Weatherwax says, "I aint’nt ded!" Just busy. Sorry. More to come as I have free time.

Some more blog housekeeping

Some may have notice that I added a new blog category: retractationes. This is a Latin noun that translates to something along the lines of re-discussion or re-treatment. It is often translated as "retractions" but it does not necessarily mean "a taking back of a previous point." It can also be a clarification of a previous discussion. I'll use it when I need to go back and further clarify or modify things I have previously stated.

In addition, here are the topics of some upcoming posts, which will be written as time permits:

A series of posts about the "Do-It-Yourself Deity" game. It essentially states that God as understood by Christians is improbably. I will be responding and critiquing its reasons for so doing.

A post on St. Thomas Aquinas' discussion of the the production of the woman in the Summa theologiae.

Huh.

Post on important issues of metaphysics, ethics, religion &c. and rarely get any hits.*

Make one post that mentions intelligent design and receive more hits in one day than ever before. And they're almost all from Harvard.**

Speculation: some professor gave an assignment on ID and evolution.

* Which is not to disparage any regular readers of this blog, who I love as much as one can love people one knows but a little via the internet.

** You're welcome for the link Harvard.

Blog housekeeping

I've retitled the aphorism posts because I've decided on a new style of titling them. I've also slightly modified the first one so as to better allude to what I meant when I thought of it.

As you were.

Well, I'm back.

The thesis is in the process of being written, but there is too much bouncing around in my head. And so I am starting the blog up again, so I have a place to dump the rest. More to follow. Until then I'll put a few of my old posts back up. I saved the ones in which I thought I said something worthwhile.