February 2026 (repost)

Subscriber Q&A

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February 2026 Q&A Questions:

00:00:29 — What advice would you have for someone who wants to live like a philosopher—think like one, act like one, and live their life like one?

00:16:20 — Does color exist in the dark? (A question relating to something Fr. Stephen De Young discussed on the Lord of Spirits podcast.)

00:27:53 — What do you mean by saying that time is a creature (and not just an emergent, relational phenomenon)? A discussion about time and eternity in Western thought.

00:43:22 — Continued: So God is pre-eternal? How does God relate to time?

00:47:15 — Is the idea of God being in the “static now” related to apophatic thinking?

00:55:40 — Regarding mind, heart, thumos (the “spirited” part of the soul—the seat of anger, pride, courage, and the drive for recognition), and appetite—how much of that framework is useful for us today, and how much of it is wrong or distracting? Discussing ideas of C.S. Lewis and Plato and how they relate to the Church Fathers.

01:06:42 — Please clarify the distinction between Eastern and Western conceptions of the Fall.

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