Christ in the Desert by Ivan Kramskoi How will our tears water the earth? How shall we water the earth with our tears of joy? I ask myself this question in consternation as I wrestle with the Christian vision of the new heavens and the new earth in which suffering has no place. Matthew A. Stanley • Christianity
Adam naming the animals - from the Aberdeen Bestiary Signs mean. People think. We easily fall into the habit of describing language and its acquisition through the process of naming, almost as though we have gotten hung up on the story of Adam naming the animals. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Photo by Maya Schwarzer / Unsplash A device for restraint What if the most creative things humans have ever constructed were mechanisms for restraint? Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Knowledge is (probably) toxic Just like interacting with radioactive material without proper protective gear, being around "knowledge" without having safeguards in place is likelier to leave us more vulnerable to the world, rather than less. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
"Friedrich Nietzsche genuflecting in the style of a Roman Catholic icon" – Looks more like Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door in Wittenburg. Well, he was the son of a Lutheran minister. Nietzsche's critique of pity Nietzsche’s alternative account of mitleid illuminates what people are doing when they perform an act of empathy, and his account does this by cutting against our beliefs about what we think we are doing in the empathic act. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
Medicine for me, poison for you Philosophy is like a poison -- a medicine for some may be a poison for others. Matthew A. Stanley • Philosophy
