Tag: patience
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Silent Machinery of Control Through Sin: A Structural Virtues Theory Exploration of Spotlight (2015)
How Corruption Binds Us Who can see through the veil of power maintenance, and its delayed Justice? Spotlight, the 2015 film portraying the heart-wrenching true story of institutionalised child abuse, is a chronicle of just such heroics; it is a mirror held up to the rotting corpse of these institutions that abuse the name of…
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Procrastination as Thief of Justice: A Structural Virtues Theory Review I would like to preface this review by saying I thought the filmmakers could have done parts of this film differently and much classier. Due to its crudeness, I cannot recommend watching this movie with anyone, especially someone sensitive, impressionable, or young. In the shadow…
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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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Teaching the Next Generation Beloved disciple of Truth, now for the final and most vital responsibility of the spiritual soldier: to pass on the virtues of Christ Jesus to future generations. This is sacred duty that requires the virtues of Patience and Loyalty set the boundaries for the expansion of virtues against error. In this…
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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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The Art of Spiritual Dialogue Beloved seeker after sacred communication, we turn to the weapon which clears the battlefield of any confusion, that discourse in spiritual dialogue which is prayer, a bow only as useful as its last strung arrow, yet handcrafted pliancy of layered Prudent yew, elastic flexibility, and Temperate oak, firm rigidity. This…
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Preserving Our Connection Through the Ages Knower of God’s gifts and most beloved, behold the eternal watchtower, the fortress where the consummate soldier in Christ stands sentinel against sin and despair’s forces: the Logos domain representing constant prayer and ceaseless self-correction. The structure of virtues is a cyclical shape, in which they virtues reinforce one…