Tag: reason
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The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…
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The Weight of Inaction: Cowardice as the Most Foundational Sin and the Last to be Conquered in Materiality Hamlet, whatever version you wish to watch, is a clear mirror held to the human soul’s deepest struggles, revealing how the sin of Cowardice, rooted in the Fear moment of the Confusion aspect, paralyses action and distorts…
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Redirect Your Anger The first domain of Kratos rules, in rejections and acceptances, is where we lay down our foundational stones upon which a virtuous life may be built. We choose what to uphold and what to cast aside, shaping our moral landscape like an architect designing a grand cathedral. For what happens when that…
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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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Rebirth Through the Logos Beloved seekers of divine truth, let us now ascend beyond the mortal realm and gaze upon the ultimate triumph: the resurrection of the spirit through Truth, prayer, and honest redemption. This is more than mere victory over death but a rebirth into the fullness of God’s eternal order, where the mind…
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The Eternal Virtues in a New Era Beloved seeker after wisdom, let us now consider the most crucial virtue in an age of relativism and information overload: discernment. Truth is now too often drowned out by all the noise in our environments, with falsehoods and AI lies dressed as virtues, the soldier must wield their…
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The Ultimate Weapon Against Sin Beloved in divine engagement, the weapon that cuts through sin, Truth, is spiritual combat reliant upon Courage and Willpower, as extensions of divine Loyalty. The most important defiance possible is against the forces that would lead us astray from this ultimate weapon. In the domain of Logos, where dialectical reasoning…