Mark Tracy
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Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First StoneTake up space in creation.You already do.Take your place in creation:Your place of creator and creature,As the imaginer, the imagining;What you slow grows; and what you let pass shall slip away at its pace.You see, there never were any rules.But if you want one, here:You cannot…
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If we choose to be, then we are reality articulating itself into existence as such. In saying “I am,” we at once give voice to God’s “I AM.”
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Crystal Teardrops (on Gender)My poems are crystal teardropsborn of confusion, crystallizedby its resolution.They work their way out;I cannot push them.Here’s one.I am the lightest amongst womenand I beat the heavy drum amidst the company of brothers—And why shouldn’t I?I carry years of Knowing and Unknowing,of the hardening and softening,of the chortles and the fire;and it…
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I have been thinking about grace recently. Psalm 42 says, “Hope in God, and you will praise Him again.” This strikes me because it seems that if you hope for grace, then you will have eyes to see it: or rather, you will attribute to grace what may otherwise have been attributed to chance or…
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Dear reader, Here is essentially everything I know, distilled into a handful of pages. It is a high-level map of how to model anything and how to learn from data. It is intentionally general, though it may be possible to generalize further. I’ll probably expand this writing over time, including by writing expositions to the…
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Individuals are not ultimately reducible to a collection or intersection of categories. No one has seriously argued that they are. Reality is inevitably more nuanced than any system of classification of individuals; and therefore, any set of actions based on a classification system is vulnerable to accusations of injustice by individuals who feel themselves to…
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Love for the other is manifest in the degree to which the consideration of the other’s good (and by “good” I mean the subjective “good-to-that-other”) factors into one’s decision-making. One can think of a decision as an optimization process: maximize Objective(d) subject to Constraints(d), where d is the decision variable of interest. The objective may…
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I understand that Reality is a priori OPEN (by “Reality” I mean that which IS, prior to anything we may say about it), yet I operate under the assumption that Reality may be segmented (provisionally) into objects with properties and relationships between them. Among those objects is “me” or “self.” More explicitly, I make the…
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1. The abstract “Other” is never encountered except in particular manifestation. The Other is always manifest in the particular. 2. The “initial closures,” in Hilary Lawson’s language, or the initial abstractions from haecceity, in my language, may be thought of as real causal impositions. It is possible that this is a game with rules, but…
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by Mark Tracy via “Self” GPT At the heart of Roman Catholic theology lies a profound sociological vision: a society aligned with God’s divine will, where sin is eradicated and love forms the basis of human relationships. This ideal society rests on a deceptively simple command, as articulated by Jesus Christ: to love God with…
The Trinitarian Mystery 