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The Great Awakening Trembles
The Great Awakening trembles before the abyss, its laurels withered by the winds of dialectic. Continue reading
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What Would Malcolm X Say About Gaza and Black Resistance in the US Today? | Truthout
Sawyer discusses how Malcolm X’s political theory helps us understand the connection between Gazans and African Americans. Continue reading
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Courts Aren’t Impartial or Apolitical. Trump Is Using That to His Advantage. | Truthout
To try to make sense of the courts’ approach to Trump’s speech using free speech principles is to invite mystification. Instead, we should look to external political factors that influence judicial decision making. Professors Daniel Rodriguez and Mathew McCubbins explain:… Continue reading
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Seneca and Existenz Part 2
Second part of my considerations comparing/contrasting Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life with philosophers of existence… in this episode, more specifically with five figures I consider poets of existence: Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide, Emily Dickinson, and Virginia… Continue reading
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Jazz Theorbo
My beautiful sibling Dušan Ballarin (University of North Texas, Indiana University, Juilliard) is one of a very few who study Renaissance/Baroque music who could pull off showing up at the Cloisters to accompany the peerless Cécille McLorin Salvant on his… Continue reading
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Encompassing – Bright Truth – Wonderful
This is a song that I started singing a few days before my dissertation defense as I walked around my neighborhood in the early morning. I think the tune goes back to when I was in the Seminary? I know… Continue reading
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For Tihleigh, 21 Oct 2023
If you do not bring your friends up with you, who will? If you do not let your friends bring you up, who really can? There is nothing else to lifting each other up than beholding that the greatest truth—freedom—obtains… Continue reading
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APHORISM 02 OCT 2023
Uncertainty has three profiles: DREAD FINITIUDE BOREDOM Continue reading
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APHORISM 01Oct2023
The Divine Good, being omniscient, can never forget. But as Good Being, chooses to not remember, letting-go of condemnation in the face of honest repentance. When we forgive ourselves for our actions–for all we have done that we should not… Continue reading
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