Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

The whole mind/body split may indeed be chimerical. Descartes, among others, has habituated us to think in those terms.

More useful to just be integrated from the get-go. I am what I do. My actions express my true intent. Kinda existentialist and jewish.

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The modern fragmentation that separates man from god is, of course, old as the hills.

Reacting to Copernicus' upending of the Ptolemaic cosmology, John Donne wrote:

Tis all in pieces
All coherence gone
The new philosophy
Casts all in doubt.
(I think it's in the Second Anniversary)

this was in the seventeenth century!

Donne's "doubt" was a call to redouble his faith, not enshrine his skepticism. I still think faith is the way to go. It's just way less fashionable.

No response yet to the sewer stuff. Maybe later.