incendiary.: March 2005

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Reporting for Duty

The Colonel is reporting for duty on the Incredible Photo Blog. I am honored to be part of such a highly esteemed blog, indeed an incredible one.

Apropos to my current station in life...

The profound responsibility the scholar once possessed, the communication of truth, has been reneged; and all the pretended “humility” that seeks to conceal this fact behind sophisticated chatter on “the limits of human knowledge,” is but another mask of the Nihilism the Liberal academician shares with extremists of our day. Youth that – until it is “reeducated” in the academic environment – still thirsts for truth, is taught instead of truth the “history of ideas,” or its interest is diverted into “comparative” studies, and the all-pervading relativism and skepticism inculcated in these studies is sufficient to kill in almost all the natural thirst for truth. … It is corrupting to hear or read the words of men who do not believe in truth. It is yet more corrupting to receive, in place of truth, more learning and scholarship which, if they are presented as ends in themselves, are no more than parodies of the truth they were meant to serve, no more than a façade behind which there is no substance. It is, tragically, corrupting even to be exposed to the primary virtue still left to the academic world, the integrity of the best of its representatives – if this integrity serves, not the truth, but skeptical scholarship, and so seduces men all the more effectively to the gospel of subjectivism and unbelief this scholarship conceals. … Christian Truth is seen as irrelevant to the central academic concerns, wherein even those who still believe this Truth can only sporadically make their voices heard above the skepticism promoted by the academic system.

Fr. Seraphim (Rose)

Who can say it better than Fr. Seraphim?

It's nice to be reminded that one is in America when one pays a toll...

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Apropos to this endeavor...

"…he liked to present himself more as the executor of someone else’s idea than as being his own master, as a man 'loyal without fawning'"

While this is used to describe General Epanchin in the Idiot I would like to think I have taken on a similar quality in my "Incendiary Remarks".

Who says left-handers are deficient?

“The Bible,” the Tula craftsman replied [to the Englishman], “is the same for everybody. That’s true enough. But our books are much thicker and our religion, too, has more in it.”
… “we have miracle-working icons and relics of saints and you have nothing at all and you haven’t even any extra holidays except Sunday.”

The Left-handed Craftsman by Nikolai Leskov

I think a statement from their webpage will suffice: "Marble Collegiate Church provides dynamic, positive spiritual direction to a diverse and embracing congregation". I would add "tolerance" to the list if I were making the decisions.

Self explanatory

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

By what right? [incendiary comment]

...by what right can those who base their beliefs on the learned propositions of their forefathers begin to use tradition as a means of support? ...to believe in the infallibility of learning, moreover of a learning which works out its propositions dialectically, is against common sense.

Aleksey Khomiakov (1804-1860)

I love quotes from the past like this one that are so apropos to the present. Khomiakov has very many such quotes so you will hear from him again.

A fine truism from a bumper sticker.

What every Red Eye deserves...a black eye.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Time for some rabble-rousing

I believe, gentlemen (used in the most egalitarian way), that it is time for a little more excitement on the blog. Since my photos do not encourage your blogging sensory mechanism I have decided to start posting incendiary remarks (my own and other celebrities of note). To start us off I will quote Fr. John Romanides:

"Believe or not, this illiterate barbarian [Charlemagne] had the gall to condemn the Romans ["Greeks" i.e. Orthodox] as heretics for refusing to accept his Filioque which he had added to the Roman Creed which had been composed at the Roman Second Ecumenical Council by some of the greatest Fathers of the Church in 381."

A trip to Wisconsin yielded a fine crop of pictures for the blog... I will transcribe some of these stickers as I didn't get a close-up out of fear of being shot up... I think it can be assumed that several of these applied under the Clinton presidency. From top to bottom, left to right: "We support the right to carry concealed"; "Lorena Bobbitt for White House intern"; Wake up America the Democrats want our guns"; Dr. Kevorkian for White House physician".

I don't think this play yard would meet St. George's approval.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Holiday

I will be out of town so there won't be another update until Monday, but there WILL be an update on Monday so check back for new incredible photos. (I've left six new incredible photos for you to enjoy while I'm gone.)

So that's what happens to plastic in an oven...

No comment.

One day I'll be riding around in a truck just like this. The only difference will be that my and Jerry's combined total of 14 kids will be riding in the back.