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this blog has some gaps which I intend to fill later when I'm more motivated. - B May I? / Or should I? / Or have I too often/ Craved miracles? moon PART I: THE LITURGY The liturgy is the public prayer of the Body of Christ, the Church. The liturgy marks, commemorates, and sanctifies time. The liturgy is the Word incarnate in the senses, it is sacramental because spiritual things are signified by sensory things. The Sacraments abide within the Liturgy. The liturgy is open to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who sows where He will. The liturgy is also structured, and every expression, every action, and every word has its place.  The liturgy is sublime in that, while emotions may be enkindled, experienced, or unexperienced throughout, the effect is ultimately beyond emotions. It is over and above the senses, though the senses play a part, because we are heilomorphs - that is, both body and soul, and our soul is spoken to through the body. The liturgy is chanted, in the West as Gre...

Many models of social evolution point toward the idea that Man is evolving into a superorganism . Technology is trending such that the collective consciousness residing primarily in the Internet, outweighs the consciousness of the individual. The number one news source in the world is constituted as an endless barrage of poorly-researched 6-10 second clips fed by an algorithmic feedback loop based on users' narrow preferences, which provides a junk food diet of questionable information to the populus. This is not a solid foundation for individual reasoning, but the collective hijacking of the intellect and will.  This collective will tends toward particular ends, which when viewed in the macro, look more like a hive mind and a hive will created from the ruins of individual minds and wills. The hive mind is capable, and even particularly adept and agile when it comes to making decisions and coming to conclusions, but it is at the expense of individual minds and wills, which are left...