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Persona #164

Dorothy Day

1897–1980
American journalist and activist; co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement

Catholic Worker — voluntary poverty, hospitality houses, and Christian-pacifist resistance to war and capital

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Attribute Dorothy Day
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Mediated
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Magisterial
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Dorothy Day

Linear created time under providence; the long loneliness ended in eschatological community.

Space

Dorothy Day

Created substantival; the Catholic Worker house, the breadline, the jail.

Matter

Dorothy Day

Hylomorphic; the sacramental body of Christ present in the bread, the wine, and the poor.

Observer

Dorothy Day

Plural creaturely observers; Mystical Body of Christ. Personal-divine cosmic agency.

Energy

Dorothy Day

Standard physics.

Information

Dorothy Day

Personal soul conserved; communion of saints.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Dorothy Day

Day refused the FBI's honor of "communist" and the cardinals' honor of "saint" equally during her lifetime ("Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."). The American Catholic hierarchy alternated between embarrassment and admiration; her sainthood cause is now official.