The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday April 17th, 2022 – Happy Easter
The Mechanics Of Thinking by Jan Sand
Many of the attempts to analyze the nature of thought present the disposition to exclude our animal friends from that process but recently reconsideration has tended to dismiss that prejudice, although there is small doubt that humans are quite special in that process. My own tendency is to examine thinking from a different fundamental which leads me to suspect, most surprisingly, that thinking can be a device that exists uniquely as a totally independent process.
The universe in general seems to be a collection of interactions of its basic forces in different ways to produce what we are capable of observing and that capability is extraordinarily limited to what our evolution required. This varies in all sorts of ways between different species depending upon the environmental challenges that must be confronted and conquered. Human ingenuity has, especially in current eras, prompted humans to devise instrumentation that immensely increases their awareness of new types of phenomena not generally available to other species. This has inflated the self-regard of many humans to a degree that disturbs me, since a large number of these most fascinating discoveries may be vastly extraordinary in an abstract way, but it is of little relevance to humans that there may be habitable planets in galaxies millions of light years away.
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On dwelling in the house of the Lord forever #poem by Abigail George
“I am dove-wing and prayer.
In the family way, I hold a
tribe of birds in my heart-all
waves of golden-mystery.
I am solitude. Futility. Grace.”
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Easter of the Resurrection by Dr. Emanuel Paparella
Another Easter is upon us. Time to rejoice. Time to reflect. Time to ask the question that Chesterton also asked before his conversion. Why are we still talking about a guy who lived some 2000 years ago? How relevant is he really? Those are good questions. As it has become my custom at Ovi magazine I take Christmas and Easter as an opportunity to revisit some of the thoughts of G. K. Chesterton on the subject. He is inimitable. Here below are some selections from his The Everlasting Man.
“If Christ was simply a human character, he really was a highly complex and contradictory human character. For he combined exactly the two things that lie at the two extremes of human variation. He was exactly what the man with a delusion never is; he was wise; he was a good judge. What he said was always unexpected; but it was always unexpectedly magnanimous and often unexpectedly moderate.
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Sceptic feathers #033 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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