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Hello possums!
Dan. O’Neill recommended this twenty-two-minute-long audi-vis from Ian McGilchrist «
Neuroscientist and Philosopher, Author of The Master And His Emissary (about left brain/right brain thinking), and the massive recent The Matter With Things.»
SABOTAGING The True the Good and the Beautiful - YouTube1
McGilchrist refers to the German thinker Max Ferdinand Scheler (1928 e 19, aged 53), who is described as a personalist or phenomenologist philosopher. We agree with Danny: “The audi-vis is thought-provoking and worth discussing.”
Long-time campaigner for nuke disarmament, Joe Cirincione →
¶ ¶ Joe Cirincione: Strategy & History☼☼☼—What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Nuclear Weapons. Eighty years into the Nuclear Age, certain subjects are off limits in nuclear security conferences
Écrasez l'infâme
These two essays (by Christian divines) show the pros and cons of the Voltairean Deconstruction a.k.a. the Enlightenment, le Siècle des Lumières, die Aufklärung.
David Bently Hart reminds us of the lack of Christian compassion in the eighteenth century →
¶ ¶ David Bentley Hart: Leaves in the Wind☼☼☼—Exit, pursued by Voltaire – Part the Second Christ and Cosmopolis 4 [bit]
«What appalled Voltaire was the cruelty, malevolence, and murderous violence not only of the pious rabble of his time, but of the princes of the church and of the legal mechanisms of its power. What he championed was mercy, pity, tolerance, and an abhorrence of violence. No one of his time and place, however, at least as far as we know, argued against the barbarism of the church and state in the language of Christian orthodoxy. There seems no evidence that, at a juncture so late in Christendom’s history, murders in the name of dogmatic orthodoxy and episcopal dignity struck anyone as, at the very least, implausible as expressions of Christianity. And it is hard not to notice that Voltaire, obedient to a conscience obviously shaped by centuries of Christian moral theological usage, was obliged to speak as an enemy of the Christian order. It was only by virtue of his estrangement from ‘Christianity’ that he was able to speak out on behalf of what ought to have been recognizable as Christian moral principles. Clearly, that estrangement was none of his doing; it was the work of the church and of ‘Christian’ culture.»
And Larry Chapp, writing about tensions among Catholics, reminds us of the lack of Christianity in the twenty-first →
☼¶ National Catholic Register¶ ☼☼—‘Gaudium et Spes’ Was Clear: Christ Is the Key to Unlock the Mystery of Man. Vatican II’s often-misread final document is best understood by returning to its central claim: Jesus Christ reveals man to himself. Larry Chapp
«… as Cardinal Ratzinger states in Principles of Catholic Theology, “In the long run, neither embrace nor ghetto can solve for Christians the problem of the modern world” (391). He adds, regarding the hardline traditionalist forces of his day: “Without a doubt, they represent a sectarian zealotry that is the antithesis of Catholicity. We cannot resist them too firmly” (389-90). // But this dialogue with modern forms of thought and life must be grounded, from the Church’s perspective, in a solid theological foundation, especially in the area of theological anthropology, which focuses on how the Church is the home of the deeper and more liberative humanism. In other words, a world obsessed with “freedom” will learn from the Church’s deeper sense of what freedom actually is. It will learn that what Gaudium et Spes calls its “joys and hopes, griefs and anguish” can find their ultimate resolution only in Christ.»
Attention Jesus nerds! Jim Martin gives a plausible exegesis of the perikopy about Martha and Mary of Bethany,the sisters of Lazarus. ‘Mary hath chosen the better part’, says our Lord (Luke 10, 42) →
-Gospel reflection- Let Martha show you how to be close to God
Cheers dears!
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++Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union++
☼☼Reports from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and kindred bodies☼☼
Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast as Russia increasingly targets Ukrainian women 21.07.2025 Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine
Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar 22.07.2025
Zelensky’s destruction of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies helps only Russia 24.07.2025
++Greensleeves++
☼Green News, Political Economy, Macro-economics, Femme Vitale, and From the Archives☼
¶ ¶ Dave Keating: Gulf Stream Blues☼☼☼—America is no longer a cleantech threat for Europe For three years European businesses have threatened to move to the US to benefit from the IRA [bit]
¶ ¶ from Kreuzberged - Berlin Companion☼☼☼—IF THESE WALLS COULD SPEAK: MEISTER RABITZ GETS A PATENT
+Paroikologistic+
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¶ ¶ Adam Tooze: Chartbook☼☼☼—AI's mega-scale. The Diderot effect and China's Southeast Asian mega projects.
Chartbook 397 Dollar trap or empire by invitation? The global political economy of the dollar system.
¶ ¶ Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality and More¶ ☼☼—New Capitalism in America - Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
¶ ¶ Comment is Freed - Lawrence & Sam Freedman☼☼☼—How much are liberals to blame for state failure? The strengths and weaknesses of the "abundance" philosophy
¶ ¶ Ken Opalo: Africanist Perspective☼☼☼—A Historical Political Economy of Kenya A high-achiever country repeatedly let down by mediocre leadership
¶ ¶ Noahpinion - Noah Smith☼☼☼—Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy Alarmism is everywhere, but a lot of it is just brainworms. [bit]
The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan
¶ ¶ Timothy Garton Ash☼☼☼—Turkiye - call me a Hakancı now
+Femme Vitale+
☼¶ Public Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham¶ ☼☼—Where Are All the Women? A Church Unrecognizable to Nicaea - by Summer Kinard.
+From the Archive+
☼¶ Lowy Institute: The Interpreter¶ ☼☼—But what does “rules-based order” mean? Ben Scott For Australia to shape the future order, it will have to get more specific about what it wants.
¶ ¶ Exogenous, Inc. - “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”- Trivium University☼☼☼The Psychology of Net Assessment — Sensibilities and Perception of the Future — Apr 15, 2023
(after Andrew W. Marshall - 26 March 2019, aged 97 | Thomas Samuel Kuhn - 17 June 1996, aged 73 | Herbert Marshall McLuhan - 31 December 1980, aged 69 | Wilfried Fritz (Vilfredo) Pareto - 19 August 1923, aged 75)
++Wayfarers’ Watch++
☼☼For everyone, but especially for people interested in religion and theology☼☼
¶ ¶ Addison Hodges Hart: The Pragmatic Mystic☼☼☼—St Silouan [bit]
Who was James “the Just” of Jerusalem? (gratis post) An excerpt from my commentary on the Letter of James
☼¶ Church Life Journal - McGrath Institute nd.edu¶ ☼☼—✨ The Human Drama at the Heart of Józef Tischner's Philosophy of Drama
[Gabriel Honoré Marcel 8 October 1973 (age 83 years)
Emmanuel Levinas 25 December 1995 (age 89 years)
Józef Tischner 28 June 2000 (age 69 years)
Karol Wojtyła 2 April 2005 (age 84 years)]
Artur Grabowski on Józef Tischner. Read more »
—
✨ The Hauntings of Joachim de Fiore
[Joachim de Fiore (30 March 1202 aged ~67)
Thomas Aquinas (7 March 1274 aged 48 ~ 49)
Bonaventure (Giovanni di Fidanza 15 July 1274 age 53 years)
Dante Alighieri (14 September 1321 age 56 years)
Girolamo Savanarola (23 May 1498 aged 45)
Thomas Müntzer (27 May 1525 age 36 years)
Jacob Boehme (17 November 1624 age 49 years)
Franz Anton Staudenmaier (19 January 1856 age 55 years)
Jürgen Moltmann (3 June 2024 age 98 years)]

Cyril O'Regan on a specter's hauntings. Read more »
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¶ ¶ David Bentley Hart: Leaves in the Wind☼☼☼—Exit, pursued by Voltaire – Part the Second Christ and Cosmopolis 4 [bit]
«What appalled Voltaire was the cruelty, malevolence, and murderous violence not only of the pious rabble of his time, but of the princes of the church and of the legal mechanisms of its power. What he championed was mercy, pity, tolerance, and an abhorrence of violence. No one of his time and place, however, at least as far as we know, argued against the barbarism of the church and state in the language of Christian orthodoxy. There seems no evidence that, at a juncture so late in Christendom’s history, murders in the name of dogmatic orthodoxy and episcopal dignity struck anyone as, at the very least, implausible as expressions of Christianity. And it is hard not to notice that Voltaire, obedient to a conscience obviously shaped by centuries of Christian moral theological usage, was obliged to speak as an enemy of the Christian order. It was only by virtue of his estrangement from ‘Christianity’ that he was able to speak out on behalf of what ought to have been recognizable as Christian moral principles. Clearly, that estrangement was none of his doing; it was the work of the church and of ‘Christian’ culture.»
An Announcement On the re-release of a philosophical masterwork
¶ ¶ Larry Chapp: Gaudium et Spes 22☼☼☼—https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/a-ratzingerian-analysis-of-gaudium-et-spes-my-latest-in-the-national-catholic-register
A splendid little essay by Andrew Gniadek: Awash in information, bereft of wisdom https://gaudiumetspes22.com/blog/letters-from-andrew-awash-in-information-and-bereft-of-wisdom
☼¶ National Catholic Register¶ ☼☼—‘Gaudium et Spes’ Was Clear: Christ Is the Key to Unlock the Mystery of Man. Vatican II’s often-misread final document is best understood by returning to its central claim: Jesus Christ reveals man to himself. Larry Chapp
«… as Cardinal Ratzinger states in Principles of Catholic Theology, “In the long run, neither embrace nor ghetto can solve for Christians the problem of the modern world” (391). He adds, regarding the hardline traditionalist forces of his day: “Without a doubt, they represent a sectarian zealotry that is the antithesis of Catholicity. We cannot resist them too firmly” (389-90). // But this dialogue with modern forms of thought and life must be grounded, from the Church’s perspective, in a solid theological foundation, especially in the area of theological anthropology, which focuses on how the Church is the home of the deeper and more liberative humanism. In other words, a world obsessed with “freedom” will learn from the Church’s deeper sense of what freedom actually is. It will learn that what Gaudium et Spes calls its “joys and hopes, griefs and anguish” can find their ultimate resolution only in Christ.»
☼¶ Public Orthodoxy - Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham¶ ☼☼—Where Are All the Women? A Church Unrecognizable to Nicaea - by Summer Kinard.
++And furthermore++
¶ ¶ A’N’ Wilson☼☼☼—Is the author of The Salt Path a Liar? any more than the other authors in the bookshops? [bit]
¶ ¶ Colin Gorrie - Dead Language Society☼☼☼—How to write poetry like Tolkien A guide to composing alliterative verse
Why you speak more Latin than you think The Latin words in the ancestor of English
☼¶ Fundamentals (Quanta Magazine) - Simons Foundation¶ ☼☼—Why Math Will Never Be Complete By JOSEPH HOWLETT
How Gödel’s Proof Works By Natalie Wolchover
☼¶ Notices of the American Mathematical Society¶☼☼—“The Incompleteness Theorem” Martin Davis.
¶ ¶ Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American☼☼☼—July 19, 2025 Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon 1969 g 19 GMT
¶ ¶ Joe Cirincione: Strategy & History☼☼☼—The Genius of Stephen Colbert What a comedian can teach us about nuclear weapons
¶ ¶ Jon Haidt &al’: After Babel☼☼☼—How to Protect from Porn 5 Layers that Prepare Children for a Mature Digital World
It’s Not Just a Game Anymore How new monetization models changed gaming, and what parents need to know Bennett Sippel and Zach Rausch
¶ ¶ Matt Osborne: Polemology Positions & Osborne Ink☼☼☼—How The Camel Conquered The Early Muslim World From India To Spain Combat, logistics, survival, land navigation, and communications in one animal
¶ ¶ Patrick Lawrence and Blake Hart: Ringfolk ☼☼☼—"The Two Towers" Read-through: Week 4 Recap Armies depart; battles amount! [Tolkein]
☼¶ Quanta Magazine¶ ☼☼—A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity By Steve Nadis
¶ ¶ Scriptorium Philosophia - Hilarius Bookbinder☼☼☼—More on experts But not moron experts
¶ ¶ The Abbey of Misrule - Paul Kingsnorth☼☼☼—Zen and the Art of Bear Spotting Thoughts from the Alaskan Highway, part one
¶ ¶ UNTOPIA: Ewan Morrison☼☼☼—Against AI A review of Ewan Morrison's novel "For Emma" Vincenzo Barney
¶ ¶ Vladislav Davidzon: The Fantastical Daybook | 1987c-7☼☼☼—Amsterdam; The Unsafe House Art Collective; Ilya Repin; Trump turns on Russia! Daybook Pages July 18, 2025 - Amsterdam - I join an anarchic Dutch art collective
¶ ¶ Yascha Mounk☼☼☼—Dan Williams on Misinformation Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss fake news.
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¶Genspect, Inspecting Gender, Stella O'Malley &c’ → footnote2
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+In the Offing+
1-18 August New South Wales (incl FCT), Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane
Australian Chamber Orchestra: World premiere of “A Moment of Memory” by Ukrainian Composer Valentin Silvestrov.
“A Moment of Memory,” commissioned by the ACO, will feature in a program including works by Gershwin and Shostakovich performed by Ukrainian-Australian piano virtuoso Alexander Gavrylyuk.
Places: Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane.
Details, times, venues and tickets via this link.
Friday 15 August 2025 & Saturday 16 August 2025 - New South Wales
Conference on the continuing relevance of the early Christian tradition.
At Alphacrucis campus, a short walk from Parramatta train station.
Friday 15 August 2025 - Saturday 16 August 2025 (UTC+10). Please arrive at 9am for registration and a 9:30am start.
Day 1 (Research Symposium) - John Behr will give a keynote lecture titled ‘From Death to Life: Lessons from Early Christianity.’ This will be followed by specialist papers from scholars from a range of Christian traditions, all engaging with early Christian thought and its contemporary relevance.
Day 2 (Public talks and discussion) - John Behr will address a wider, non-specialist audience and will engage in extensive Q&A and discussion. He will give three talks on three of the greatest thinkers of the ancient church.
+Pi Jaws &c.+
An Introduction to William Blake
Malcolm Muggeridge
We are all endlessly looking for reality even when we try not to, or think we are not. This applies particularly, of course, to poets, artists, mystics – even, in their own way, to philosophers and scientists. Though we pursue fantasy, never more so than today, the soul’s only true sustenance is reality, which even in the most adverse circumstance it somehow finds, just as a seed falling on a rock face somehow finds the tiny crack where it can grow.
Of no English poet and artist is this more true than of William Blake.
-Gospel reflection- Let Martha show you how to be close to God
+Factoids+
If you ask what was the first modern police force, probably the answer with the weightiest consensus behind it is London’s Metropolitan Police, established by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. …
In Australia, the Sydney Foot Police had been set up in 1790, and in 1825 the Military Mounted Police was created in response to clashes between settlers and Aboriginals, although that might be considered too paramilitary to be within the scope. In any event, there are several possible answers to the question, what was the first modern police force, but the Metropolitan Police almost certainly isn’t one of them.
— Eliot Wilson
An Irish court has caught a drug dealer dealing drugs during his own drugs trial.
An upstate New York hiking trail remains closed because a moose won’t budge.
A Belgian regulator has upheld a complaint against a ticket inspector for saying “bonjour” in a Flemish-speaking area.
A UK study suggests cooling your home by smearing yogurt on your windows.
And while we’re there, Heathrow has started piping airport sounds through the airport, to help travellers get into the airport mood.
— International Intrigue <newsletter@internationalintrigue.io>
+Laughter, the best Medicine+
Of Gollums and Gorlims: A Sunday Morning Meme [strda221 A Phuulish Fellow]
Then Sauron laughed aloud. 'Thou base,
thou cringing worm! Stand up,
and hear me! And now drink the cup
that I have sweetly blent for thee!
Thou fool: a phantom thou didst see
that I, I Sauron, made to snare
thy lovesick wits. Naught else was there.
Cold 'tis with Sauron's wraiths to wed!
Thy Eilinel! She is long since dead,
dead, food of worms less now than thou.
And yet thy boon I grant thee now:
to Eilinel thou soon shalt go,
and lie in her bed, no more to know
of war -- or manhood. Have thy pay!'
- Tolkien's Lay of Leithian Recommenced (c. mid-1950s).
From ¶ ¶ The Cosmopolitan Globalist - Claire Berlinski☼☼☼—We're getting the social media crisis wrong Henry Farrell →
* Adam Przeworski describes the following Polish joke from the period of authoritarian rule. “Comrade Secretary delivers a speech on “The Dangers of American Imperialism.” Then all the comrades in the room express their opinions. All, but Comrade Kowalski. It is late Friday night, and everyone wants to go home, yet Comrade Kowalski remains silent. Finally, Comrade Secretary turns to Comrade Kowalski, “Comrade Kowalski, I delivered my speech, all the comrades expressed their opinions, and you, you say nothing. Don’t you have an opinion?” To which Comrade Kowalski sheepishly replies, “Oh, Comrade Secretary, the opinion I do have it. But I do not know if I agree with it.””
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Epstein Regulation Compliance Here's our plan. If you have questions, please ask HR.
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Hallazgo (Discovery), 1956. Source: Arts Intel Report
+Resources+
The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is a reputable source for inquiries about Ukraine.
Rationale for Just Peace Ukraine —
The Russo-Ukrainian War is illegal
Russia’s War to Eliminate Ukraine is immoral
Russia’s War on Ukraine is inexpedient
In brief —
RF forces must leave Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and any other occupied territories.
RF must assist prisoners and the deported, whether children or adults, to return home.
The Kremlin must use its fossil-fuel and other loot to recompense for damages its forces have caused.
If you are thinking today about how to help Ukrainians, here are some possibilities: Come Back Alive, a Ukrainian NGO that supports soldiers on the battlefield and veterans; United 24, the Ukrainian state platform for donations, with many excellent projects); RAZOM, an American NGO, tax-deductible for US citizens, which cooperates with Ukrainian NGOS to support civilians; and BlueCheck Ukraine, which aims for efficient cooperation with Ukrainian groups and is also tax-deductible. [Thanks TDS]
¿TL;DR?
Scores of Substack and samvydav sites and similar sources sifted and selected by the strenuous staff at JustPeace Ukraine.
“O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other.” — Winnifred Crane Wygal (8 July 1972, aged 87), using work of her teacher Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1 June 1971, aged 78)
+Publication Details+
JustPeace Ukraine is published by the Rvrd Martin Arnold, a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest,
who welcomes comments & suggestions and notification of typos & errors. ☼☼For more information about Martin, go to https://gravatar.com/martinoarnold מִפְּנֵי תִקּוּן הָעוֹלָם
Do we hear you say “What is a Ukrainian Greek-Catholic priest?” If you are even slightly interested in this question and have scant acquaintance and knowledge of Eastern Catholic churches in general or of the Ukrainian Catholic church in particular, then we urge you to read our publisher’s The Christian church in Ukraine: a potted history.
मास्कोनगरस्य आकर्षणं परिहरन्तु | आक्रमणकारिण मम देशं त्यजन्तु
Corrections and comments by Iain McGilchrist on this video: "the word I was translating as ‘value-ception’ (around 18 minutes in) is not ‘Wertethik’, but ‘Wertnehmung’. And the pyramid of values, which appears twice, has a misprint: ‘sadsfying’ for ‘satisfying’. Other than that, an excellent job!" Iain McGilchrist
¶ ¶ Beyond Gender - Stella O’Malley☼☼☼—The Psychiatrist Who Shut Down America's First Gender Clinic Speaks Out Beyond Gender Episode #22
¶ ¶ Genspect: Inspecting Gender, Stella O'Malley☼☼☼—Missteps in Treatment: Confronting the Limits of My Knowledge From Respect to Understanding: One Clinician’s Journey of Learning in the Era of Gender Identitarianism – Part 2 By Dwight Panozzo, PhD, LCSW
Bí Cineálta - Be Kind Part 1 Flying the Flag for Progress
Bí Cineálta - Be Kind Part 2 Does Kindness Trump Truth? Genspect and Catherine Monaghan
Derailing the "Trans Train" in Germany Read the latest Dispatch from Deutschland by David Allison
¶ ¶ Julie Bindel: writing and podcasts☼☼☼—Why are men so obsessed with pornography? Andrea Dworkin was right
☼¶ LGB (Alliance Australia, Distance &al’)¶ ☼—Transwoman' Sara Higdon Talks Like A TERF: 'I Have A Mental Illness' Dad Saves America podcast acknowledges inconvenient truths about 'trans'
Froggy Girl: A New Children's Book, Written by The Truthful Therapist, Illustrated by a Detransitioner
¶ ¶ Paul Tyson: Gender Critical Philosophical Theology¶ ☼☼—Why the Shared Psychosis of Gender-Identity works, ... for the time being.
Rainbow Diversity 'Tolerance' Thoughts on Drew Hutton’s expulsion from the Greens
¶ ¶ Persuasion - Yascha Mounk & al.☼☼☼—A Stark Reminder That Sex Differences Matter in Elite Sport The lesson from a world-class athlete’s attempt to run a 4-minute mile. James Smoliga, DVM, PhD
Mr Justice Nase asks “Does this Monty Python effort qualify as satire?”
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