tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post116006197027094001..comments2023-07-31T10:39:53.182-05:00Comments on The Blog of the American Chesterton Society: Black But Comely - a GKC VisionNancy C. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-67495793968859359282008-08-28T08:17:00.000-05:002008-08-28T08:17:00.000-05:00Remember that, although our Lord entered this worl...Remember that, although our Lord entered this world as a little Child, he did not leave it thus, nor will he return as a Child, but as Man.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691926175413483900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-1160146271752315272006-10-06T09:51:00.000-05:002006-10-06T09:51:00.000-05:00"Suchness" then is a motif of Chesterton's, it see..."Suchness" then is a motif of Chesterton's, it seems.<BR/><BR/>This whole idea of limitation as liberating has to do with the concept of form, a concept not appealing to modernists. We've dealt with this regarding works of literature - for example, why the form proper to a play demands a different content than the form proper to a short story. <BR/><BR/>Now what I am about to suggest may not be good philosophy, but it's good combox fodder. If we're dealing with form and content, are we also not dealing with spirit?<BR/><BR/>Imagine a trinitarian system of incarnation - <BR/><BR/>The Spirit motivates<BR/><BR/>The Form gives shape and structure to the intentions of the spirit<BR/><BR/>The Flesh is the content that is built by the spirit taking form<BR/><BR/>For example, Radical Traditionalists argue that only the Latin Mass is valid. Do they really think the worship of God can take no other form? Or do they believe the spirit behind the form is bad? I think they are really arguing that only the Latin Mass form can prevent the ugly spirit of modernism from taking flesh and bearing bad fruit. This is because form is limiting, a safeguard.<BR/><BR/>Another example, if the spirit of love between the sexes seeks to express itself, it will take the apparently restraining form of matrimony, a form which forbids crossing the formal boundaries into adultery or perversion or contraception. But if the spirit is more interested in self than other, then the form of matrimony must be destroyed or remade (which is what we're seeing all around us). The selfish spirit then takes the form of, say, "shacking up", and bears fruit in the flesh of a generation of broken relationships and abandoned little bastards.<BR/><BR/>We will thus know a spirit by its fruits. Its fruits are proof of its suchness. Its suchness is safeguarded by its form.Kevin O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12239185608038738884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-1160103097242514422006-10-05T21:51:00.000-05:002006-10-05T21:51:00.000-05:00As you noted, Albinos have visual impairment becau...As you noted, Albinos have visual impairment because their eyes don't block all incoming light. Also, human albinism is genetically linked to nystagmus (lazy eye) and strabismus (a permanent squint and lack of eye coordination). This means albinos have bad depth perception. That, along with the fact they're memorable, means they make lousy assassins, Dan Brown!!!<BR/><BR/>Yet one more problem with his execrable books. When, oh when, will he be stopped?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19678732.post-1160099488808319742006-10-05T20:51:00.000-05:002006-10-05T20:51:00.000-05:00Let us be ocular athletes.I like that.I was never ...<I>Let us be ocular athletes.</I><BR/><BR/>I like that.<BR/><BR/>I was never really a visual person until I met my husband (a photographer and a totally visual person) and so I am learning to be, in GKC's words, an "ocular athlete"!Nancy C. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169395014931291729noreply@blogger.com