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Monks Are Just Christians Who Take Themselves Seriously

But The Foretaste of Eternity Is For All of Us

Nov 27, 2025 • James R. Green

The Recycled Image

Ratio(s), Patterns & Energy, and the Equation at the End of Infinity

Dec 13, 2025 • James R. Green

Riding the Trumpian Roller Coaster

Man is Complicated, Trump More Than Most, and I Want To Get Off the Ride

Dec 6, 2025 • James R. Green

Contemplatives Are The Only True Platonists

Memidemics, Arch-Materialists Becoming Mystics, and their Continued Shortfalls

Nov 29, 2025 • James R. Green

Roughly Translated from the Original Synodalish

A Guide to the Managerial Speak of the Interim Report of the Synod on Synodality

Nov 22, 2025 • James R. Green

Commissar Martin

Why Does Fr. James Martin Wield So Much Influence?

Nov 15, 2025 • James R. Green

The Cure for Gibberish Is More Gibberish

When Bureaucracy Fails The Argument, They Just Throw More Words at You

Nov 9, 2025 • James R. Green

It's Jenga Blocks All The Way Down

And the Lightest of Touches Will Knock It All Over

Nov 9, 2025 • James R. Green

In the Throne Room

A Personal Relationship... But With the King

Published on Grain of Wheat • Oct 26, 2025

When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith On Earth?

The Case for (Trad) Ecumenism

Oct 25, 2025 • James R. Green

The Bishops' War

Control of the Terrain is Only Part of Full Spectrum Dominance

Oct 18, 2025 • James R. Green

Everything's A Conspiracy And Nothing Is

Did My Conspiracy Get Infiltrated By Yours Or the Other Way Around?

Oct 15, 2025 • James R. Green

Grain of Wheat

Grain of Wheat

Let's approach our confusing world together at the meeting point of mimesis, theology, and politics with a "Grain of Wheat" to discover how charity is the purpose of everything and the key to understanding everything (John 12:24)

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Monks Are Just Christians Who Take Themselves Seriously

But The Foretaste of Eternity Is For All of Us

Nov 27, 2025 • James R. Green

The Cure for Gibberish Is More Gibberish

When Bureaucracy Fails The Argument, They Just Throw More Words at You

Nov 9, 2025 • James R. Green

It's Fractals All the Way to Infinity

The Grandeur Just Keeps Getting Grander & The Most Terrifying Thought Ever

Nov 1, 2025 • James R. Green

When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith On Earth?

The Case for (Trad) Ecumenism

Oct 25, 2025 • James R. Green

Politics

Riding the Trumpian Roller Coaster

Man is Complicated, Trump More Than Most, and I Want To Get Off the Ride

Dec 6, 2025 • James R. Green

It's Jenga Blocks All The Way Down

And the Lightest of Touches Will Knock It All Over

Nov 9, 2025 • James R. Green

The Bishops' War

Control of the Terrain is Only Part of Full Spectrum Dominance

Oct 18, 2025 • James R. Green

Everything's A Conspiracy And Nothing Is

Did My Conspiracy Get Infiltrated By Yours Or the Other Way Around?

Oct 15, 2025 • James R. Green

Book Reviews

How the Novus Ordo Mass Became An Ego-Tripping Arms Race

Thomas Day Diagnoses the Problem, But His Solutions Don't Go Far Enough

Jul 19, 2025 • James R. Green

Do You "Have A Vocation?" Or Do You Just Think That Because Your Friends Do?

Mimetic Pressure, False Vocations, and "Religious Vocation: An Unnecessary Mystery" by Fr. Richard Butler

May 1, 2025 • James R. Green

The Ego-Tripping Arms Race for Attention of All Against All

On "Why Catholics Can't Sing" By Thomas Day

Jan 6, 2025 • James R. Green

A Review of Modern Times by Paul Johnson

Mimetic Rivalry Between Nazis and Communists, The Age of Social Engineering, and Surprising Takes

Oct 2, 2024 • James R. Green

The Love of God is a Bell Curve

Reflections on the Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales

Sep 12, 2024 • James R. Green

A Review of The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset

My reading list appears externally rather random, and my choices impulsive and unconsidered.

Aug 31, 2024 • James R. Green

Reviewing The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman

Reason is the official god of our culture of scientism and expertocracy.

Aug 22, 2024 • James R. Green

A Review of American Cosmic by Diana Walsh Pasulka

American Cosmic is a book that transcends categories—and judgements.

Aug 17, 2024 • James R. Green

Knowledge

Contemplatives Are The Only True Platonists

Memidemics, Arch-Materialists Becoming Mystics, and their Continued Shortfalls

Nov 29, 2025 • James R. Green

What & Where Are the Angels?

And Are They A Lot Closer to Us than We Think?

Aug 16, 2025 • James R. Green

Truth Isn't Subjective, But We Subject It To Us

An Experiment and Some Wild Speculation On the Subjective Nature of Experience

Mar 18, 2025 • James R. Green

Rudyard Lynch - Agent of Odin?

Take Him At His Word. He Talked to Something.

Jan 18, 2025 • James R. Green

Muskism

The Widening Gyre

And then, suddenly, the rope snapped...

Sep 13, 2025 • James R. Green

Which Side Are You On? (Political Edition)

How Far Does This Feud Go? All the Way to Caesarism?

Jun 8, 2025 • James R. Green

The Quantum-Powered Warrior Bands of the Future

Harnessing the Casimir Force for a New Middle Ages

May 22, 2025 • James R. Green

D.O.G.E. is a Mindset, Not Just An Institution

The Visible D.O.G.E. Doesn't Have to Succeed for D.O.G.E. to be a Success

Apr 4, 2025 • James R. Green

Geopolitics

Everything's A Conspiracy And Nothing Is

Did My Conspiracy Get Infiltrated By Yours Or the Other Way Around?

Oct 15, 2025 • James R. Green

The Widening Gyre

And then, suddenly, the rope snapped...

Sep 13, 2025 • James R. Green

The Crisis in the Church Is an LSD Trip

The Drug Fueled CIA to Jesuit to Homosexual Mafia Pipeline

Aug 23, 2025 • James R. Green

Conspiratorial Occasionalism

If Everything's a Psy-Op, Then Nothing Is

Jun 28, 2025 • James R. Green

Reality

Contemplatives Are The Only True Platonists

Memidemics, Arch-Materialists Becoming Mystics, and their Continued Shortfalls

Nov 29, 2025 • James R. Green

It's Fractals All the Way to Infinity

The Grandeur Just Keeps Getting Grander & The Most Terrifying Thought Ever

Nov 1, 2025 • James R. Green

Everything's A Conspiracy And Nothing Is

Did My Conspiracy Get Infiltrated By Yours Or the Other Way Around?

Oct 15, 2025 • James R. Green

When Evil Laughs, Laugh Back

Evil's Triumphalism Signals Absurdity, Not Success

Sep 20, 2025 • James R. Green

Selfishness is Self-Emptying

What's the Supposed Benefit of Selfishness, Anyway?

Oct 11, 2025 • Andrea Madrigal

Canticle of the Beige

What's Wrong With Modern Liturgical Music?

Oct 4, 2025 • James R. Green

The 10 Phases of Denial That We Just Went Through & Thoughts On Not Going Off the Deep End

Oct 2, 2025 • James R. Green

Chaos vs. the Cross

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Sep 27, 2025 • James R. Green

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