Glossary of Terms used in this Blog Douglas Blake Olds, August 2026 This text was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. Précis This glossary presents a conceptual set of relations without closing those relations into a self-sufficient system. It identifies the Shema-Christological anthropology grounding its terms, the bioformalist error that subordinates living bearers to formal configurations, the conative processes through which awareness matures into accountable conceptual judgment, and the temporal and civilizational consequences of bearing correction, responsibility, mercy, and repair across generations. Accountable Bearing The historically continuous reception of reality as claim by a living bearer capable of recollection, correction, consequence, and repair. Accountable bearing ...
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THE BEARERS OF TIME: Conation, Quantum Metaphysics, Civilizational Repair, and Humanity’s Essential Vocation Rev. Dr. Douglas Olds (Ret.) July 18, 2026 CONTENTS Abstract Methodological Note: Suscepts, Concepts, and the Metaphysical Accountability of Physics Glossary of Governing Terms Introduction: Why Seven Essays? Essay I Quantum Time-Bearing: Toward a Metaphysics of Accumulated Time Essay II Conative Mind: Consciousness, Substrate, Concepts, and Suscepts Essay III Artificial Intelligence and the Civilizational Inversion of Bearing Essay IV Practices That Accumulate Time Essay V Christ the Bearer of Time Essay VI The Beast and the Civilization of Configuration Essay VII Repair, the Kingdom, and the Attainment of Human Essence Conclusion Bearing the Entrusted Future ABSTRACT This work develops a metaphysics of accumulated time in which creation is received as an entrusted field and living persons are distinguished by accountable bearin...