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The Dignity of Solitude
In a post two months back, I listed the four moral attitudes that Jaspers holds as the necessary conditions of existential communication. At the top is “the dignity of solitude.” I collect here a few insights on solitude in faith… Continue reading
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Entranced by Reality | The American Conservative
This incisive portrait graces the cover of Robert Zaretsky’s smart, galvanizing new book, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Zaretsky’s slim volume churns between sympathetic biography, basic textual exegesis, and his own Camus-inspired reflections. The… Continue reading
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Paulo Ito, World Cup: A Brazilian street artist has created the World Cup’s first viral image.
On May 10, Brazilian artist Paulo Ito posted this mural on the doors of a schoolhouse in São Paulo’s Pompeia district. Less than a week later, it has become an international sensation, drawing huge attention on Facebook. It has also… Continue reading
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Blacks in Western Art: Gemini Sculpture With Black and White Twins a Symbol of Racial Harmony – The Root
…A particularly impressive achievement of the artist is found in the sensitively rendered heads of the figures. The intention seems to have been to racially distinguish the twins. The facial traits of the figure on the right exhibit pronounced black… Continue reading
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We Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy – Existential Comics
Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Awesome! See on existentialcomics.com Continue reading
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal
This is our chance to tell the government how to guarantee a free and open internet. Here’s a rundown of key issues so you can make your voice heard. See on www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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Here’s How Netflix Is About to Change Radically
Using Netflix will not always involve scrolling through endless lists of movies served up by genre or because you watched one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last summer. A Netflix executive says in the future, the streaming service may… Continue reading
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Video reveals entire organism’s neurons at work
Researchers image complete nervous system in real time. See on www.nature.com Continue reading
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Deconstructing God
Can reading abstruse French theory lead to religious belief? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Always a pleasure to read Jack Caputo. “If you cease to “believe” in a particular religious creed, like Calvinism or Catholicism, you have changed your mind and… Continue reading
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