Tag: conservation
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A Christian Philosopher’s Take on Batman Versus Joker In the sprawling metropolis of Gotham, teetering on the brink of chaos, we find ourselves confronted with a moral conundrum as old as humanity itself. The Dark Knight is a philosophy film cloaked in the garb of cartoonish comic book heroism. It invites us to ponder the…
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Sin and Error; Most Outwardly Amnesis The sin of Amnesis is a dreadful forgetting eroding all virtues into nothingness, so it becomes much more than some personal failing; it is the rot at the heart of all failures in civilisation. Most horrible of all forgetfulness is in our godly purpose. The erosion of history’s lessons,…
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A Christian Philosopher Watches The Godfather There exists a profound confusion in this age of noise regarding greatness. We tend to equate importance with stature: a towering building, a commanding voice, or an unquestioned position. Something within each of us admires the one who sits highest upon the mountain, yet they more often remain blinded…
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Against the Virtues Aspect of Perseverance Beloved thirster after Truth, we now turn our attention to that aspect of sin that often goes unnoticed yet is most destructive of all: indolence, or Sloth. As Perseverance is active, so too is Sloth in its denial of all function. This is failure to conserve excellence through repetition,…
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Inner Discipline Inner stillness of the known beloved, how glorious. This is something like the feeling one gets after a job well-done, but all the greater for its attachment to divinity. Let us turn to the fortress that guards against the storms of distraction, the meditation of spiritual discipline, something not just for hermits or…
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Balancing Pride and Humility Fight against pride’s perils, the armour padding of Temperance brings full value to Magnanimity and Honour. Like Conservation and Excellence, Temperance in the Propriety moment enables the work of the virtues in Awareness and Morality moments. In the case of Temperance, it enables comfort in the armoured boots of Magnanimity, and…
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Endurance in Face of Discord Beloved seeker after divine strengths in God’s truth, let us direct our gaze toward another important virtue ever fortifying the soldier in Christ: Patience. Spiritual warfare is impossible with a sensitive and bruised noggin, Patience serves as a helmet, protecting the mind from the relentless assaults of discord and delay.…
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Analysis and Prudence So let us explore the notion of mind as a battlefield, where divine truth clashes with worldly deceits. The mind is an element of spirit and body which must be harnessed and shaped, like all other interactions of the spirit with body, through disciplined virtue-building, lest it succumb to demonic oblivion. The…
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Respecting Differences Without Privileging Weakness This is not to be blamed solely directly upon minorities, but rather their status as created artificially and the only paths to rectifying it all (https://YourFight.Club/read the club is Christianity), the responsibility of which borne most by minorities by not being part of majorities instead. Identity and power have natural ebb…
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Assumed Weakness Identity Undermines Community Opposed to nationalism, though not necessarily apparent at first, are the entanglements of victimhood mentality as identity, what I identify as Victimentality in my first book Your Fight (https://YourFight.Club/read the club is Christianity). For while nationalism seeks to honour the natural states of man and our needs in organisation, victimhood…