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I recently wrote this in response to a comment on this video. What do i get myself into: Sure Hamblettamaud, postmodernism introduced this idea of a person as a “social construction,” all those other words and phrases are basically ways of saying the same thing. (Philosophers would shoot me for saying that.) Before the postmodern period–in the [ READ MORE ]
Recently read an omnibus (pluribus?) edition of Richard Brautigan’s “Revenge of the lawn”, “The Abortion: An historical Romance”, and “So the wind won’t blow it all away”. And, since I have not been publishing for awhile, and since I have reasonably strong opinions on these books, I felt that I would write about them and [ READ MORE ]
This is a thing I did not know: Courtesy of Russell’s Teapot’s Know Your Bible series. Great stuff, eminently quotable. And, just in case you were wondering. No, they don’t lie: that is what the bible says. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.quodlibetor.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fthe-bible-explicitly-forbids-christmas-trees%2F'; addthis_title = 'The+Bible+Explicitly+Forbids+Christmas+Trees'; addthis_pub = 'quodlibetor'; Technorati Tags: [ READ MORE ]
He kneels above her back with sweat beading on his elbows and knots in his palms. Silhouettes in a well-lit room, the world flickers and whirls around them. Conversation goes as it does, in ebbs and flows of insight and sympathy. Touching on deep muscles and cold winters, past and memories and not those things [ READ MORE ]
She said “You live your life too much like a bad movie” She said “You don’t know what love is” She said “You try too hard” She said. I said “Life is what love is, and what’s the point if you don’t try?” I come back to her again, after years of silence. You get lost in the moment. You [ READ MORE ]
So there’s this post over at Cognitive Daily, a post which i would have titled something more like how i titled this post. But that’s OK, they’re cognitive psychologists not marketers. God knows we need more people like them. I’m going to give a brief summary of what they’re reporting on before i get to [ READ MORE ]
A common theme in living life is the slow, dawning realization that there are 6.6 billion other people out there, and that we are almost exactly alike. It’s hard to look at humanity and see yourself as something better than an ant, never mind being the best at something. And yet, everybody thinks they’re special. [ READ MORE ]
In the two days since my post on the topic of Siegel’s prejudiced essay, more (plenty more) has been said. So, i’m going to try and keep this brief and just touch on one thing that i feel hasn’t been said; which is excruciatingly difficult, every single sentence that tries to contain a fact is wrong! [ READ MORE ]
Writing: Words and concepts take on a crystalline assembly-line structure. There is–like visual perception–a very clear, high-resolution central phrase: that is what i am thinking aloud Right Now. The words i am currently writing. Along with this there is a peripheral awareness of where i have been and where i am going: words fading to [ READ MORE ]
Lee Siegel from the LA Times doesn’t understand what the “latest rash” of atheists are doing. Despite that, he has written a piece in the LA Times in which he questions our techniques, language, and most importantly goals. I’m not just saying that he doesn’t understand us to be trite, or to cast facile aspersions [ READ MORE ]