why we should

In a few comments elsewhere I have started using the term Janus ratio, to describe our threshold of attention, the gate on which it pivots is the urge to live. I’ll try to make sense of it, by some attempts at definition of this neologism, below. Janus ratio of self and world © 2023 meika loofs samorzewski The Janus ratio describes the proportions…

Julian B. Barbour The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time. First edition. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9780465095469 Given my interest in Janus the two faced god of the threshold and gates, and my use of it in a metaphor to describe our gap dancing abilities (and difficulties), I bought Julian Barbour’s book on physics, and, well, cosmology,…

Sister Wendy was a Carmelite nun who gained famed as an interpreter of art, especially on free-to-air television in the 1990s, and whose passion for this vocation was irrepressible. All images of text and quotes are grabs from Sister Wendy Beckett's The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art through the Centuries (London: HarperCollins, 1996) #ISBN0551030121 The Carmelites are a Catholic…

This post follows on from discovering that belief in belief, or believing in believing, or having faith in faith— is a heresy in the biggest Christian Churches, because obedience. I covered this in : I was at work when first writing those posts, and while cataloguing books into a library system I discovered the following from Arnold Lunn’s The Revolt…

Belief in belief is regarded as a heresy called Fideism by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches. To me this appears… —odd. Why would a church or religion not belief in belief, not have faith in faith? Surely this is prior to belief in somepiece of dogma. But for most established Christianities, not only is it unrequired, it is…

To face tomorrow is to world today, expecting… a child hopefully fears its innocence and naives a plan and so mishaps the world, any… —all, does not exist. But is where we are headed, never to arrive we adult into our worsts, see, and the world lies before us in a moment of care that says fare well. The World—“Pam-A”…