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Name: Eddie
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Interests: My Savior.Classical Education, Baseball, Football, pyrotechnics, music, shooting, Church History, Philosophy, Literature, Theology, Medieval History, Ancient History, Greek History + Ancient Greek languages, Apologetics, Ancient Roman Culture, Civil War Re-enactments, working, public speaking, Combat Science, small arms and hunting, sailing, weight-lifting, justice, holiness, truth, honor, chivalry, Robin Hood, Gaelic mythology, comparative govt., New Years' Resolutions, Medieval Warfare, Vikings.
Expertise: Sunflower Seeds
Occupation: Student
Industry: History, Classics, Library Sci
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Yahoo:  eddiek7jr
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4/21/2005
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| "Judas before Herod!" He said, and struck the Colonel down upon the stones. Then he turned to the Secretary, whose frightful mouth was almost foaming now, and held the lamp with so rigid and arresting a gesture that the man was, as it were, frozen for the moment, and forced to hear.
"Do you see this lantern?" cried Syme in a terrible voice. "Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you , men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street that you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was , by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing. You can only destroy. You will destroy mankind; you will destroy the world. Let that suffice you. Yet this one Christian lantern you shall never destroy. It shall go where you empire of apes will never have wit to find it."
He struck the Secretary once with the lantern so that he staggered; and then, whirling it twice around his head, sent it flying far out to sea, where it flared like a roaring rocket and fell. "Swords!" Shouted Syme , turning his flaming face to the three behind him. "Let us charge these dogs, for our time has come to die."
-G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), The Man Who Was Thursday, Pg. 147
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| Yes, after two years of bi-annual updates, I am posting for the second day in a row.
I was thinking today about the metaphysical assumptions of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Keep in mind that it's been a long time since I studied this stuff. Kant believed that space and time, as well as causation, are synthetic, a priori knowledge, in that while they are real information and add to an individual’s wealth of knowledge, they are neither gathered nor learned from experience, or even dependant on anything but the mind itself.
Although this sounds like philosophical banter, its implications are very important on a metaphysical scale. He believes that space, time, and mathematics are matters of the mind, inherent to our nature, dependent on the mind alone, and true in that the thought is impossible to annihilate.
Now, its been months (likely years) that I have been thinking in a proper logical, philosophical manner. Excuse my lack of proper articulation. What is so interesting about this argument are the examples he gives for this "real knowledge".
Newtonian Physics and Euclidian Geometry.
According to Kant, these theories which are within the mind, and dependent on nothing else. No experience is necessary to validate or explain these "truths".
It's a shame that Einstein invalidated these things through great and extensive experimental process. I'll give you one guess who could have explained this problem.
Plato was right to say that truth exists independent of human knowledge. He hit the nail on the head when he asserted there was a higher truth by which all other truth can be seen and experienced. Truth is absolute. In other words, it isn't dependent on the human mind (thankfully). Furthermore, it is through God and for his glory that we see, experience, and long for truth. Doesn't that just make sense? Questions? Disagreements?
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Anyways, I've been cranking out homework like tanks in '43. It's too bad I'm not being graded on overall productivity, because production is definitely up.
Other than that, Dad and I fixed a leaky gas meter off of Sheridan on Elim Street.
I also planted some fantastic Juniper bushes for curb appeal. I've gotten used to keeping these little joys to myself, but the new tennant showed up to tell me he was a degree holding horticulturalist and was pleased with my work. Rewards in full.
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I should let you know... Venus is still visible for the next few days on the eastern horizon until midnight. If I can remember my astronomy, you can find it by...
Locating Orions Belt (three parallel stars)...
Linking it down to Sirius (brightest star) ...
And creating a 90 degree angle between the two and the horizon.
As a point of interest, once Venus is located, Regulus can be found at its 10 o'clock.
*All information is from memory and estimation.
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I ought to be to bed. I'm at Psalms 16 this evening, and quite enjoying it.
And so I leave you with a thought, and thankfully... one not of my own.
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato
"Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.
I said to the LORD, 'You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing."
-Psalm 16:1-2
Goodnight and God Bless,
Eddie
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, I have something to confess.
I mismanage my time, over-analyze, and procrastinate.
Therefore, I will simply commit and follow through. Even though this is all I have to say, I will say it anyhow and publish it without getting distracted, thinking this isn't a decent enough post, or telling myself I could post a better one later.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. -Proverbs 10:4
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
I'll be on again soon. This is going to be difficult, but I'm going to squeeze every opportunity out of this life of mine.
-Eddie
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| I bought a Bonsai today at the Botanic Gardens.
It is a "buxus microphylla japonica," or a Kingsville Dwarf Boxwood.
It is about 2 inches high and the crown is about an 2 1/2 inches wide.
It is already about 4 years old.
It is currently housed in a very rustic, handmade, glazed, maroon pot.
It was surprisingly fitting to my budget.
I will post pictures upon my next update.
It was good to see the Anderson's today, and it will be better to see them for a while longer in a few weeks.
Must sleep...
Fairy tales are more than true- not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
-GK Chesterton
When allegory is at its best, it approaches myth, which must be grasped by the imagination, not with the intellect.
-CS Lewis
Untill then, Eddie Kristan
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| Some random thoughts.. inquire if you would.
1. I am in search of a Cluricaun; nattily dressed, temperamental, with an affinity for a tune, to guard his coffee-pot.
2. "The next thing they gave me, they called it a gun,
So under the trigger I settled me thumb.
The gun it belched fire, and vomited smoke
And gave me poor shoulder the Divil's own stroke.
Remember says he, that the Irish fight well,
But the Russian artillery is hotter than Hell!"
3. Aye! Give that child some Porter!
4. Astra non mentiuntur, sed astrologi bene mentiuntur de astris.
5. Mind the Vashta Nerada. "Every species has an irrational fear of the dark. But it's not. It is very rational." Dust in the sunlight, they say.
6. Coffee tastes like deadlines.
7. I wish I could captain a clipper-ship out of Gloucester MA, or a man-of-war out of Co. Cork.
8. I have terrible taste in voices, but terrific in passion and poetry (at least in my mind).
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