tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post8775807450520797080..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: A Few Odds and Ends With No Apparent ConnectionTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-71350666799844316042018-09-09T20:42:12.293-04:002018-09-09T20:42:12.293-04:00If I were in that class I'd have definitely ch...If I were in that class I'd have definitely cheered Franco. The Second Republic was no sort of government for a civilized country. From its history we learn (among other things) the important lesson that exempting members of Parliament from prosecution is a really bad idea and leads directly to anarchy.<br /><br />I've noticed just now that this post is several years old. Oh well, I hope nobody minds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-47156485473354341322012-06-08T07:35:55.212-04:002012-06-08T07:35:55.212-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120637182434548474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-65911106971302097262011-12-11T18:27:11.559-05:002011-12-11T18:27:11.559-05:00@Gabriel Austin:
Possem enit dici quod quando deus...@Gabriel Austin:<br />Possem enit dici quod quando deus creavit sphaeras coelestes, ipse incepit movere unamquamque earum sicut voluit; et tunc ab impetus quam dedit eis, moventur adhuc, quia ille impetus non corrumpitur nec diminuitur, cum non habent resistentiam. <br />-- Jean Buridan de Bethune<br /><i>Quaestiones super caelo et mundo</i>TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-89675993356850765132011-12-10T14:00:03.817-05:002011-12-10T14:00:03.817-05:00Fr. Jaki was not concerned about the Sun coming be...Fr. Jaki was not concerned about the Sun coming before light. His position was that creation happened all at once. <br /><br />A propos Grosseteste, it was Buridan who first formulated the law of inertia [Newton's first law].Gabriel Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319970403459925204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-60732227082291340302011-12-09T00:51:13.511-05:002011-12-09T00:51:13.511-05:00RE: the primal light, it removes the difficulty so...RE: the primal light, it removes the difficulty some (including Fr Jaki) felt about the Genesis 1 line about the creation of Sun coming after the creation of light. <br /><br />It was an odd objection to make since even in standard cosmology the photons precede the creation of stars.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-80397444476172128282011-12-08T22:19:32.957-05:002011-12-08T22:19:32.957-05:00If you read Warren Carrols "the last crusade&...If you read Warren Carrols "the last crusade". Franco is a catholic superhero.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909360575166964668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-21349419982380413972011-12-05T09:27:25.491-05:002011-12-05T09:27:25.491-05:00Re: Bp. Grosseteste, a quick perusal of De Luce co...Re: Bp. Grosseteste, a quick perusal of <i>De Luce</i> contains this sentence: "When the first body, which is the firmament, has in this way been completely actualized, it diffuses its light from every part of itself to the center of the universe." Which looks suspiciously like a reference to cosmic background radiation.godescalchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02517093505437411930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-32605942435367332422011-12-05T00:21:40.961-05:002011-12-05T00:21:40.961-05:00I think the essay on hypocrisy is in The Diamond A...I think the essay on hypocrisy is in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=n59TlhNAkSEC&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=%22even+though-in+fact,+because-they+had+no+morals+at+all%22&source=bl&ots=pO88JlENPp&sig=NKflFbkh91LfQVIdQuPqKOhkT-8&hl=en&ei=OVTcTqarF6He0QGc8KDdDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22even%20though-in%20fact%2C%20because-they%20had%20no%20morals%20at%20all%22&f=false" rel="nofollow"><i>The Diamond Age</i> by Neal Stephenson</a>Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-64394389296919222772011-12-04T18:46:05.082-05:002011-12-04T18:46:05.082-05:00‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of...‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity—greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’<br /><br />But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17109095347818446088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-85498126816705217512011-12-04T15:52:04.201-05:002011-12-04T15:52:04.201-05:00Great piece.
One thing - Stephen Barr's analo...Great piece.<br /><br />One thing - Stephen Barr's analogy of God's creative process via nature is lifted straight from C.S. Lewis. I hope he acknowledges this!Sue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868265477624790008noreply@blogger.com