Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

Reality shows us a captivating treasury of types, the exuberance of an evanescent play and alteration of forms. Isn't that so beautiful? So poignantly perceptive? So innovatively fascinating? Such a fantastically careful description of the 'real'? Who could say such a thing? What kind of person could think such high and lofty thoughts? Only a philosopher of the aerial, ethereal, the esoteric.. right? The one and only, Friedrich Nietzsche. He's the same guy who wrote this: Morality, insofar as it condemns on its own grounds, and not from the point of view of life's perspectives and objectives, is a specific error for which on should have no sympathy, an idiosyncrasy of degenerates which has done an unspeakable amount of harm! Can the same spring pour forth both fresh water and salt water? I guess the answer is, Yes... See this proves it! The Bible is errant!!

EXPELLED!!! That frightening word flashed in front of my eyes for several days as myself and a few others known for our involvement in the "physics scandal of '99" found ourselves sitting, waiting to hear of our judgment from our high school principle. That's right, we cheated, and we cheated badly! From experience, I know the word is down right scary. O! the shame, the misfortune, the badness of that word. I cringe when I think about it. And NOW I am sitting cringing in my chair scared, not because I might be given the boot again from my current educational program, but because of a digital mass of electronic bytes (and human bites) collected by Ben Stein and his cohorts. What passes as documentary should more properly be called propaganda. DARWIN! THE ATHEISTS! THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE! Responsible for enslaving the universities to philosophical discrimination through brainwash science. Responsible for mass killing and hatred of mankind and all sorts of unmentionable ...

Notes-From-Offcenter has a good post concerning the decline of value/virtue in the academy in the wake of rationalism's dogmatic fantasy for fact. You can READ HERE. A side note: also from Creedal standpoint a great read is a short book by one Charles Habib Malik called "A Christian Critique of the University." I found this book particularly helpful and deeply affective. Also, I always recommend John Henry Newmans " Idea of a University ." David Berlinski, a brilliant mathematician and scientist, has published a new work with a chiding title. His new book, The Devil's Delusion plays off the title of Richard Dawkins scathing assessment of Religion in The God Delusion. Read about the work at Random House's website. Take this to heart and hear. Inhabitatio Dei has posted a brief but convicting blurb. I could not have said it better, but what he says scares me, because I fear what he speaks of is true of me. I have fallen victim and been deceived to lo...