Tag Archives: Thomism
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Great News for Murderers! Science Disproves Free Will!
3September 23, 2018 by lucieromarin
You can probably deduce my mood from this post’s title. To those who believe in free will, I apologise for …
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Let’s be Non-Binary
Leave a commentJune 28, 2018 by lucieromarin
I’m not talking about gender! (I’m also not talking about Early Music – I’m not a great fan of mixed-voice …
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Postscript about Heaven
Leave a commentMarch 13, 2018 by lucieromarin
An impious opinionatrix remarked on the words in the previous post, “…but I do want to see him in Heaven.” …
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Nature and Person
2June 14, 2014 by lucieromarin
Jokes abound about how agonising it is to have to preach on Trinity Sunday. One priest told the story of …
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Animals Have Souls, But They Can’t Receive Grace. Here’s Why. (Potency and Act, Part 3)
Leave a commentApril 11, 2014 by lucieromarin
One way to move beyond woe is to think about things other than woe – so, today, not a post …
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Aristotle versus the Rift (Potency and Act, Part 2)
1January 17, 2014 by lucieromarin
So – to continue with the journey/destination analogy in the previous post – Aristotle saw that all beings, at any …
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A Rift Between Worlds (Potency and Act, Part 1)
Leave a commentJanuary 15, 2014 by lucieromarin
So much television sci-fi is about the dangers attendant upon a Tear in the Fabric of Reality, or a Tear …
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Thomism versus Burnout
Leave a commentJanuary 13, 2014 by lucieromarin
In the late 1990s, Jacques Derrida came to Sydney and said, “The visibility of visibility is not visible,” whereupon his …
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On Questions
Leave a commentNovember 14, 2013 by lucieromarin
I’ve just come from Mass, during which I mangled part of a Gradual verse, listened to a homily about indulgences, …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 