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""In Erigena’s paradoxical theology, God is both Everything and Nothing, the two terms balance one another and are held in a creative tension to suggest the mystery which our word ‘God’ can only symbolise."
I find the historical context fascinating, but this theological gobbledegook is truly baffling." — Dec 30, 2025 05:21PM
""In Erigena’s paradoxical theology, God is both Everything and Nothing, the two terms balance one another and are held in a creative tension to suggest the mystery which our word ‘God’ can only symbolise."
I find the historical context fascinating, but this theological gobbledegook is truly baffling." — Dec 30, 2025 05:21PM
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“Are you conspiring, little duck?"
"When one has neither gold, soldiers, name nor honour, what else is a woman to do?”
― Ithaca
"When one has neither gold, soldiers, name nor honour, what else is a woman to do?”
― Ithaca
“But structures are processes are not thereso that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually develop. They reproduce to populate the Earth because they are functional.”
― Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
― Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
“This is the world we live in. We are not heroes. We do not choose to be great; we have no power over our destinies. The scraps of freedom that we have are to pick between two poisons, to make the least bad decision we can, knowing that there is no outcome that will not leave us bruised, bloody on the floor.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
“Scared is how you see the spear coming for your eye. Scared is how you choose where and when to strike.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
“Kenamon takes his time to consider this. Penelope does not mind. The silence of men is a novel experience, and she is prepared to thoroughly enjoy it.”
― Ithaca
― Ithaca
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