a private, unexpected Red-Letter Day

traveled today here in Moscow through the essential structural ideas of the 18th century French materialists, Diderot, Holbach, et al.
one of the most "distant" excursions in 40 years, and one of the most conclusive

Stephenwolf on Theology, et al?

if you are reading these, you might want to see stephenwolfontheology.blogspot.ru

citizen or pilgrim

"make yourself at home"

or

"just passing through"

daily historical travel

journeying daily in history, returning to the present with deepened understanding

what has Versailles to do with...

what has Versailles to do with Jerusalem, or Athens, or...

telepathic conditions

an increase in telepathy would be soon followed by an increase in homicides

banal bloggings, 1784

"A contemporary critic complains in 1784 that no one now ever undertakes a stroll, a picnic, or a ride without having to tell all Germany what happened on the way -- or worse still, what thoughts occurred to him on the way; and indeed many of these descriptions [in books of travels] really do overdo the details, faithfully reporting every word exchanged with each innkeeper and stranger met on the journey."

-- Book Production, Fiction, and the German Reading Public, 1740-1800, Albert Ward, 1974, p. 136.

from Calvin to Maslow

from different core beliefs...

beliefs of the core...

self-denigration <  > self-actualization

   

theological tomes or Jacob's stones

to seek to rest one's head on theologies' tomes?

or better (and more perilous) on one of Jacob's stones?

mundane curricula vitae

curricula vitae lived sub specie academiae