FatherMatthew

Episcopal Priest, the Vicar and Chief Operating Officer at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue

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@memcculloch Or how about Terra Intercognita: where things cease merely to have relations, and begin to be constituted by them.

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@memcculloch Terra incognita, then.
If mass itself is relational, might we radically say
m = m(r, rₕ) perhaps even
m(r) = c²r² / 2Grₕ ?
Not claiming this follows from QI, but is it that quanta :: horizons points toward mass itself as a scale :: horizon relation?
Still QI, or another terra?

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@memcculloch Did we reify mass just like O. Barfield thought modern consciousness reified appearances: treating as isolated what actually exists only within "participation"? If 𝑚 = 𝑚(𝑟, 𝑟ₕ), nothing has its mass alone. The local has “weight” only in relation to the horizon. Wisdom 11:20

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@memcculloch Perhaps matter does not have mass by itself. Perhaps it has mass because it is in communion. “Where two or three quanta are gathered together, there is inertia in the midst of them.”

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@johnmilbank3 @henryjkwallis It has long been lurking in this land. I foolishly thought I could evade it by leaving the South. But, no. It has metastasized.

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@Uncanny_Harry Fantastic!

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@Gossip_Goblin I hope to answer your call to creative insight.

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@Livng_Church “Is decorating a tree for Christmas becoming a prideful display of color and light, the very thing that makes baby Jesus weep? Maybe it’s time to be a curmudgeon. #TheLividChurch #NewPuritans #jejune”

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@EdoardoFanfani Ours are often pocket universes, with more divine detail than one person could dream.

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@Todd_Spence No reason at all?! What about truth, goodness and beauty?

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@unusual_whales

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@BishopBarron “Of what I think still a Christian church…”??? This is irresponsible. I’ve respected your ministry for many years. By all means be an appalled cultural despiser of pastoral choices for a funeral. But shame on you for that backhanded misinformation that we aren’t Christian!

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@bettyaberlin “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.” Matthew 23:37

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@bettyaberlin Excellent and Beautiful.

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@bettyaberlin Enfolded by Love. The true dream!

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@bettyaberlin Yes, especially as a child. Never liturgically, though.

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@bettyaberlin And an Elvish swan ship takes the soul-wounded Frodo to the Grey Havens. Still digging in the sand.

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@bettyaberlin "A music came down the river as it drew nearer; and suddenly they perceived that it was a ship, wrought and carved with elven-skill in the likeness of a bird." LOTR, "Farewell to Lórien."

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@bettyaberlin Ah, I see it now more clearly. The “I may even be your wife” kidnap moment is striking.

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@bettyaberlin Yes, a deep poignancy.