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 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. PrĂ©cis 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 ...
  THE BEARERS OF TIME: Conation, Quantum Metaphysics, Civilizational Repair, and Humanity’s Essential Vocation [click title to access] Rev. Dr. Douglas Olds (Ret.) August 18, 2026
  The Eclipse of "We the People": Bioformalism, Predicate Theft, and the Anti-Anthropology of Unaligned General Idolatry  [--Full text link] Douglas Blake Olds August 19, 2026     [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL: If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection, it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html ] This article 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 by his research unless specifically attributed to outside sources.   PSALM 2:1-4 (NRSV) Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain...
    Biological Formalism as Horror's Prolepsis toward the Epstein-Networked Ideological Substrate of Unaligned Generalized Idolatry A Follow-up to "Eclipse of 'We the People'" (Olds 2026d) regarding Epstein-Adjacent Patronage, Speciation Fantasy, Digital Economic ID, Philosophical Genealogy, and the Moral Cost of Diagrammed Conflict Douglas Blake Olds June 13, 2026    [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html]   PSALM 2:1 (NRSV) Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, ...