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No Meaning for Mortals (meaningness.com)
1 point by feross on Oct 31, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


He agrees with Thomist theology more than he realizes, since he isn't able to see it from the inside. For example, the idea that meaning is emergent and contingent is harmonious with Christianity.

Edited to add:

> Close your eyes.

> Picture only the flying wheat fields of summer, and below,

> The secret blue lake

> Whose precise coordinates in that very heaven,

> That undefiled past,

> Have been hidden from you,

> Salvaged for you, set aside in holy trust,

> Alive now and ever in the fullness of time.

https://jelliot.substack.com/p/ile-de-mont-royal




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