Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
...For is it not true, that to employ the senses is to use the intellect? And to employ the intellect amounts to a use of the senses? What indeed can sensation be, but the understanding of that which is the object of the sensation?...
...For how can the intellect be superior to the senses, when it is these which educate it for the discovery of various truths? It is a fact, that these truths are learned by means of palpable forms; in other words, invisible things are discovered by the help of visible ones, even as the apostle tells us in his epistle: “For the invisible things of Him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made;” [Romans 1:20] and as Plato too might inform our heretics: “The things which appear are the image of the things which are concealed from view,” whence it must needs follow that this world is by all means an image of some other: so that the intellect evidently uses the senses for its own guidance, and authority, and mainstay; and without the senses truth could not be attained. How, then, can a thing be superior to that which is instrumental to its existence, which is also indispensable to it, and to whose help it owes everything which it acquires? Two conclusions therefore follow from what we have said: (1) That the intellect is not to be preferred above the senses, on the (supposed) ground that the agent through which a thing exists is inferior to the thing itself; and (2) that the intellect must not be separated from the senses, since the instrument by which a thing's existence is sustained is associated with the thing itself.
~ Tertullian (c.160–220 AD), Treatise on the Soul
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Once again Life imitates Art. Then it was "Jack Ass: the Movie," now it's Rich Russell... Brings back fond memories of the time someone ran a semi into the Pioneer Square pergola.
But there's always time here in the Emerald City for music. Here's Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara singing the big Broadway hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXzFOHrycHg
["Defying Gravity - Wicked (With Lyrics!)" - from the original soundtrack album]
Some Latest and Sundry Jottings (before I forget)
Those who dismiss God invariably underestimate the power of the Devil and professional criminal spirit people; unless perhaps, that is, they already work for them. Never believe someone who claims to be free (even if they are supposedly as popular as the Beatles) but who are paying tribute and taking protection with some great secret hoodlum.
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Does he ruthlessly inflict pain on others in order to somehow alleviate his own? If so, it might go a long way to explain his ageless need for cruelty and interminable sadism.
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If others did one one-thousandth of what these people did they would get themselves killed -- and quickly. But because these are witchcraft persons sponsored by a ghost it is made to seem that their own wrong-doing is somehow sacred and inviolable to flesh and blood people; thus it is forbidden to violate the sacred order of things.
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So and so is indeed a good person, yet should the devil pressure them to be dishonest and corrupt, they will give in.
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If I had hundreds of millions of dollars, I know what I would spend it on - comic book super hero movies for ADULTS.
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From the beginning America represented hope, and so the enemies of America are invariably the enemies of hope. And that the evil one so relentlessly attacks and scoffs at America, shows and demonstrates and acts as proof, it seems to me, that America works. But in what does TRUE America consist? Not in paying for protection, cowardice, hypocrisy, and phony baloney certainly.
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In such a perilous state as we find ourselves in, what, short of God, can heal or protect us? Can we say a certain man keeps and kept his word, and then that God does not keep His?
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One faith, yet there continue to be innumerable of personal heresies and leave taking of fundamental truth, even among the seemingly most orthodox.
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There is no natural religion, yet true religion has the good taste to be in harmony with nature; note, for instance, Christ's use of natural metaphors and similes in the parables. And who, meanwhile, are more unnatural and opposed to Nature than criminal spirit people?
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The child and innocence hold the keys to joy. Reject innocence, say for example in the interest of supposed "sophistication," and you reject joy.
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Now I know this is all being done for a very good reason, only could you possibly tell me what that reason is?
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Don't question life, death and existence unless you are qualified and licensed as a practicing professional philosopher, and who understands the fundamental principles of epistemic criteria; since if not such, you seriously risk doing yourself an incalculable degree of hurt.
Like it or not, the only cure for death is God, and who is the Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit (of Love and honest Truth.) That Christ is the only incarnation helps make things easier in the sense that unless someone incarnate is Christ, he cannot possibly be God, and therefore you are better armed to reject and refute him (or her) if that is necessary.
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I tell him DO NOT believe the false teaching of Mysterion and Ophian; for the fact of the matter is that as great and prodigious as are the powers of Mysterion, there are nevertheless as many and more things he cannot do and is incapable of. (Or have you never read Puss 'n Boots?)
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By the powers of Chandu I conjure you...(etc. etc. you fill in the rest.)
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[ch. 18]
...For Plato maintains that there are certain invisible substances, incorporeal, celestial, divine, and eternal, which they call ideas, that is to say, (archetypal) forms, which are the patterns and causes of those objects of nature which are manifest to us, and lie under our corporeal senses: the former, (according to Plato,) are the actual verities, and the latter the images and likenesses of them...
~ Tertullian (c.160–220 AD), Treatise on the Soul
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Hearing Chaplin interviewed in 1954 is not so unlike listening to someone from another planet (i.e., things are so different now from how they were back then.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F67AywGPL4E
["Chaplin Interview BBC 1954"]
(For the film "Limelight" itself, for those who haven't seen it, see:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xgCT1CcsvU
["Limelight - 1952 - Ft. Charlie Chaplin"]