Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Textimony 20120720
At the limit we engage beginning & ending. At the boundary we embrace true concern & eschew false security. Now/here on the edge: nowhere. Continue reading
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The Drama of Existentialism – NYTimes.com
I am always impressed by the frisson in my class when students realize that there’s a sense in which Sartre is right: they could, right now, get up, leave the classroom, drop out of school, and go live as beach… Continue reading
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Mike Huckabee & Ignorance
Newsflash: This is an example of ignorance par excellence. Gay people are not all child molesters. And child molesters who happen to be attracted to the same gender are actually out numbered by male molesters who prey on girls and… Continue reading
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Glenn Greenwald Leaves Salon for the Guardian | The Wrap Media
Good luck at the Guardian Glenn. I look forward to seeing the great things you will do there. Keep the faith and stick to your guns! Indeed, the former New York prosecutor has led multiple charges with his stories, most… Continue reading
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I would say healhdemystified is firing in all cylinders this week. “Lifestyle change” is one of those inauthentic or bad faith phrases. Start low, go slow… you will get there much more likely than attempting to exchange all-at-once who you… Continue reading
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Again, the five boundary situations–chance, suffering, struggle, regret, & death–have a “negative” connotation, but they are actually positive constitutive factors of possible Existenz. “By avoiding negative emotions, we’re actually doing ourselves a disservice. We are ignoring a powerful source of… Continue reading
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Desperation as a reconnection with the genuine conditions of existence. Thoughtful. Continue reading
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Originally posted on iamadam: Thanks to Adam Roberts @ Knowledge Ecology for posting this one: Continue reading
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Sartre and Camus in New York – NYTimes.com
At Vassar he [Camus] gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Mankind” and was dazzled by the spectacle of “an army of long-legged young starlets, lazing on the lawn.” But he was preoccupied by what he thought of as the… Continue reading
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Singing in the Dark Temple of Midnight
I am here to sing thee songs. In this hall of thine I have a corner seat. In thy world I have no work to do; my useless life can only break out in tunes without a purpose. When the… Continue reading
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“The works that I have in hand I will finish afterwards…”
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee… Continue reading
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I’ve been saying this. I am not a millionaire entrepreneur so I am glad to hear say it. Maybe if it is said by yet another member of the 1%, folks will go ahead and stop thinking wealthy people create… Continue reading
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Originally posted on coromandal: Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream. In the world of architecture and the built environment, wishful thinking is in the ascendent in direct proportion… Continue reading
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Response to lucymillsonlife
EuroAmerican Christianity has always suffered from this problem since it first sprang up in North Africa. It is called the Donatist heresy. While Donatism mostly concerned whether a priest needed to be pure of heart/deed in order to administer the… Continue reading
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Philosophy or Sophistry?
Romano’s newer (broader?) definition of philosophy fits my own definition of sophistry (click here to read). ‘America the Philosophical,’ by Carlin Romano – NYTimes.com. Continue reading
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