David Lucas
@DavidILucas
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Teacher, writer, drawer.
London
Joined August 2013
Cold take but Galfridus Monemutensis' Historia Regum Britanniae is probably 100% real. Only thing I don't believe is the etymologies ("Kaerlud" to "London"? Not believable.)
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The new @idler magazine is out. Hooray. My philosophy slot is prompted by @Philip_Goff’s latest book on panpsychism, via @PhilipPullman’s love of the occasion on which William Blake conversed with a fairy. “Every particle of dust breathes forth its joy.” I suspect that’s true.
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Why separate Creativity and God? This is the most heretical part of Whitehead's theology from an orthodox monotheistic perspective. For most Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians, God is The Creator. Period. By definition God has a total monopoly on creative agency.
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In Jung's Last Years, Jaffé quotes Jung, “Man is the mirror which God holds up before him, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.”~Jeffrey Raff, Healing the Wounded God
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.@haivry describes how four statues were placed atop the new Royal Courts of Justice, symbolising the pillars of English legal tradition: “We would strain our eyes in vain looking for Locke or Bentham or Mill”
thecritic.co.uk
The first UK National Conservatism conference starts in London on Monday. It will seek to present a vision for the future of conservatism that is rooted in tradition. Such an appeal to traditional…
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"Religion is about the pursuit of the deepest, truest, highest, and most beautiful guiding story. It is the quest to find the ultimate True Story that all other true stories derive their trueness from."
profectusmag.com
For the last several years, I have served at a small, midwestern church that is nearly 140 years old. By American standards, that’s a fairly old church. There are some families here that have four...
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“The joy of the architectural experience is emotional and immersive: a kind of mystical union. A beautiful structure pulls your heart... This is what generations of self-appointed 'experts' suppressed through clever manipulation and propaganda.”
thecritic.co.uk
Recent scientific applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) amount to a paradigm shift in settling the architectural debate. For decades, architects have been arguing against common sensibilities…
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The last sentence in this is frequently quoted but, as someone who works in Pimlico, we need to consider the fourth
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Dentsefo No. 2 Asafo Company Posuban (cement shrine) built by Kojo Abban in 1936.
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Charles III on tradition and the sacred in Christian and Islamic civilizations. This speech is remarkable https://t.co/CWPK4sE4fG
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In ‘Beginning with Beowulf’ in The Horn Book Magazine, Feb - Dec 1953 (vol 29), Rosemary Sutcliff wrote about the origins of her reading and writing. “At nine years old, I was quite unable to read the simplest sentence, which, as I have pointed out to her since … “ /cont…
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"early humans knew that life was meaningful...What is modern is not the need to apply meaning to life, but rather the problem of doing so without a collective consensus rooted in seeing religion and its attendant moral prescriptions as objective facts" https://t.co/XUEO8B8xOq
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14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture (my latest article).
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@RobertGreene @sapinker @CeliaHeyes @AnnieDuke @amychua @RobertCialdini @mattwridley @NAChristakis @SteveStuWill @jwpennebaker @StephenKing @bryan_caplan @charlesmurray @wstorr “When the data scientist David Robinson analyzed 112,000 plots including books, movies, television episodes, and video games, his algorithm found one common story shape...’Things get worse and worse, until, at the last minute, they get better.’” https://t.co/RjU1daTErq
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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.--Aristotle
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Explore the art of children's book illustration with award-winning author-illustrator @DavidILucas on this intensive course. Learn how to create engaging characters in vividly-imagined worlds https://t.co/UsiVLI1yfW
@MediaComGold #illustration #ChildrensBooks #storytelling
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