tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post5335449456317946071..comments2023-10-28T06:49:17.434+00:00Comments on O cuniculi! Ubi lexicon Latinum posui?: Democracy, Deocracy and DemoncracyWarwickensishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01310450226153796760noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post-61828662267809217062016-01-08T06:33:07.433+00:002016-01-08T06:33:07.433+00:00Ouch! American politics always reminds me of tryin...Ouch! American politics always reminds me of trying to answer the question "Have you stopped beating your wife, yet?" with a "yes" or a "no".Warwickensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01310450226153796760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post-33362789134432681872016-01-08T05:19:12.406+00:002016-01-08T05:19:12.406+00:00This means that as an American I can vote for neit...This means that as an American I can vote for neither Hillary nor Trump. Woe is me. That leaves Bernie!<br /><br />Jim of OlymAuriel Ragmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395216240172741261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post-57302203284477357542016-01-05T14:37:07.783+00:002016-01-05T14:37:07.783+00:00Fr Anthony commented, but his comment got lost! I ...Fr Anthony commented, but his comment got lost! I replicate it below:<br /><br />"I am very heartened to see my own thoughts provoking ideas that prove to be that much more profound and lasting on this ephemeral blogosphere. Referring to salvation by knowledge, methinks, is something like trying to run Windows programmes on a Macintosh. The whole notion of salvation (théôsis) is totally different from western scholastic categories, and it isn't knowledge in the meaning of information or intellectual learning. It isn't even someone else's secret. All the same, your thought is profound. Perhaps you with your penchant for mathematics should see how quantum physics relates to all this. Challenges abound for 2016 - and happy New Year!"<br /><br />My reply:<br /><br />"Thank you for taking the trouble to read this, Father. I'm going to have to think and develop some thoughts on this further. Of course, if we take the standard Anglican Catholic stance of no <b>binding</b> doctrinal development after the Seventh Oecumenical Council, then we cannot regard a scholastic view of knowledge as being in anyway dogmatic.<br /><br />There are two avenues that I might wish to explore here. <br /><br />(a) Knowledge as in recognition (with the presence of the 'gn' as in gnosis) - to wit, the recognition of our salvation;<br /><br />(b) Knowledge as something even vaguely approaching the sexual connotation of the word. Salvation as a deeper relationship with God that transcends the intimacy of husband and wife.<br /><br />As for Quantum Mechanics... hmm... we'll see!"Warwickensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01310450226153796760noreply@blogger.com