Desperately in need of amusement, and, having found some things that amused (or amazed) me recently, I thought I'd share them in this forum with you, my one reader.
The deeply weird platypus is even weirder than you thought.
Gregorian chanting can reduce blood pressure and stress.
And finally, I recommend to you, my dear reader, this essay: C. S. Lewis and the Star of Bethlehem: Recovering the medieval imagination.
Try to get over the fact that Mr Lewis was a Christian, and this essay by Mr Michael Ward appears in Christianity Today. This essay is Important.
But our mode of imagining the universe largely changed in the same way, and something vital and wondrous in our civilization died.
Or perhaps it only slumbers, and raises again its hoary head from time to time and shakes the rime from its beard. Or perhaps the whole idea of the universe as a metaphor for itself in anything but mathematics is irrational.
Frankly, I've sometimes found myth more rational than math, but perhaps that's just the way my imagination works.
Anyhow, read the essay. Then come back here and tell me what you think.
And, if possible, relate it to the platypus. And Gregorian chant.
Edited to add: Mr David Brooks writes an essay about the essay that pegs it.
The deeply weird platypus is even weirder than you thought.
Gregorian chanting can reduce blood pressure and stress.
And finally, I recommend to you, my dear reader, this essay: C. S. Lewis and the Star of Bethlehem: Recovering the medieval imagination.
Try to get over the fact that Mr Lewis was a Christian, and this essay by Mr Michael Ward appears in Christianity Today. This essay is Important.
[T]he medieval universe was "tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, ceremonial, a festival not a machine".Somewhere along the line, our western view of the universe changed from Mythopoeic to Mechanical. Fair enough; I like my electric toaster just as much as the next fellow.
But our mode of imagining the universe largely changed in the same way, and something vital and wondrous in our civilization died.
Or perhaps it only slumbers, and raises again its hoary head from time to time and shakes the rime from its beard. Or perhaps the whole idea of the universe as a metaphor for itself in anything but mathematics is irrational.
Frankly, I've sometimes found myth more rational than math, but perhaps that's just the way my imagination works.
Anyhow, read the essay. Then come back here and tell me what you think.
And, if possible, relate it to the platypus. And Gregorian chant.
Edited to add: Mr David Brooks writes an essay about the essay that pegs it.
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