You know, the way some women watch football games gives me a nigh-irrepressible urge to knit a sweater in an attempt to restore balance in the cosmos.
Nota Bene: never, ever buy great loose-leaf tea if you want to enjoy commercial (economically priced) teas ever, ever again.
It's amazing how quickly your mind can atrophy. How come I can't be one of those people who see the deep down things in every thing they perceive? I'm a Thomistic Aristotelian, after all - all I should really need to philosophize are things and senses to see them with, both of which I have right now. What is wrong with me? Instead I brainlessly clean, cook, eat, work, sleep, repeat . . . it's very base. Where's the wonder in those glorious philosophical concepts I strained myself to grasp?
. . . Four chicken breasts, a cup of cheese, two potatoes, two cups of flour . . . I think we need more milk - I should put that on the grocery list . . . Will all these dishes fit into the dishwasher? . . . I wonder if it's better to dry-clean that bedspread, hmm . . .
I'm telling you, the intellectual fatness I feared is becoming a reality. Something has to change.
So, maybe I should ask for input for the meagre number of readers I have on this here blog. What are your recommendations for an intellectual diet?
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Get Matthew to read the Categories out loud into an MP3 recorder and then get yourself an MP3 player and earbuds, and splash away...audiobooks, my dear, they will be your salvation.
This is all you really need to worry about; how to become a saint. Your philosophy is only good to the degree it brings you there-of course, you know this. Your everyday work can reveal God to you.
from an email:
“We see in work a sign of God’s Love”
You say it helps you a lot to wonder how many businessmen have become saints since the time of the early Christians. And you want to show that it is also possible today. The Lord will not abandon you in that effort. (Furrow, 490)
St. Josemaria Escriva
I'm probably missing the point of what you are trying to say though, being pretty intellectually fat myself. But it seems to me that anything worth thinking would have to be available to the people doing (in the words of George Bailey) "all the working and paying and living and dying", right?
Anything worth thinking, according to the practical man, would certainly have to be accessible to the practical man.
But there are things worth thinking by the philosopher that are inaccessible to the practical man. The practical man can only go so far, from a philosophical standpoint, until he has to stop and watch the train disappear into the distance. It's inevitable. Time constraints.
It all goes according to your state in life. The amount of leisure we have (or make) determines the amount of time we can spend thinking.
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