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1. “Follow your heart.” Jesus never said that. Christ said instead “Follow me,” (Matthew 4:19) because “The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 16:9) 2. “Be true to yourself.” Christ… Continue Reading →
If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupt absolutely, then what happens with passion? Does passion also corrupts, and absolute passion would also corrupt absolutely? Or can passion be a different kind of drive, one that creates a sense of trust and direction towards higher ideals?
Our passion, derived from love, would make us suffer in search of the sublime. And the sublime would be nothing but what already is beautiful but expanded to the same extreme perceptions that are already hurting and making us suffer. Enter the realm of limit-experiences.
In the realm of logical reasoning, the ad hominem fallacy is a formidable opponent of rational discourse. Derived from the Latin phrase “to the person,” the ad hominem fallacy occurs when an argument is attacked not on its merits but… Continue Reading →
Georgetown hosted an event with “the Executive Ministry of the Satanic Temple” this coming Monday night in the name of “dialogue”: Pretty sure the founder of the Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola, wouldn’t endorse dialoging with the devil. He… Continue Reading →
A Catholic nun in France went viral on social media on Tuesday after she was captured on video tackling a far-Left climate protester who was allegedly trying to disrupt the construction of a chapel. The Times reported that the rugby-style tackle happened… Continue Reading →
The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the… Continue Reading →
Even in such crucibles, even in periods of transition, when we get to choose between greatness and stillness like the ones I now struggle with, there seems to be a single thing that remains untainted by instability and the mortal edge of history: love.
In the years leading up to the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Ottoman Empire was the strongest and fiercest military in the world, steadily expanding its dominion in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Venice, once a maritime powerhouse, had made… Continue Reading →
We are undergoing a new technological revolution. The so-called “fourth phase” is featured by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data, which are usually inter-connected. The amount of available data is speedly increasing, in such an exponential way…. Continue Reading →
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