the iconoclast's descending

  If the essay is the meteorology of poiesis--attendant and ethically constructive reason without ration-- the poem is its daychart navigation and logged course.   Grounding Language: Nominalism through Kairesis, Post-Secular Modernity, and the Poiesis of Iconoclasm as Radical Immanence Douglas Blake Olds, May 28, 2025  [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] Modernity reframed the relationship between language and reality, replacing tradition-bound metaphysics with individual accountability and nominalist correctives to Platonic abstraction. From apophatic theology through Protestant ...

  Foundlings: A New Era’s Possibles of Poetic Repair Douglas Blake Olds, May 2025  [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 unless specifically attributed to outside sources.   “Fragments are not abandoned to the elements; they are the elemental.” This line, from the penultimate section of my forthcoming poetry anthology The Inexhaustible Always in the Exhausted Speaks , extends metaphysi...

  Saturday, May 10, 2025   Gameplay as the arena for gratitude and chivalry Douglas Blake Olds  [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]     [My son honored me by asking for some ideas about gratitude and a sermon about teamwork. Follows the text I sent him about the former and under that is the sermon about the latter.]   Culture and teamwork, like gratitude, are cultivated. We emulate who we admire. So that gratitude is foundational to the tested friendships I’ve found with you. Not just loyalty to a goal and collective, but admiration for your gifts behind your act...

the iconoclast's descending  (to challenge systems fleeing accountability) Mandate for a Tribunal of Iconoclastic Repair after Diagnosis When invading the gates of hell (Matt. 16:18), disruptive thinking delivers.   Judges 16:23-30; Daniel 2:31-43;  Matthew 16:18;  21:12-13 ;  24:2, 15-28  Douglas Blake Olds 26 May 2025  [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 unless...