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Literary Talk: June 2009
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Clearing It Up: Neo-Conservatives and Neo-Liberals. Yesterday at 12:33am by one of my favorite alumni, Calvin Johns. Believe it or not, you can be BOTH a Neo-Con and neo-liberal. In fact, that's kinda common. The idea is that the experts of big business should run the economy, not the government. It doesn't take a Mar...
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Literary Talk: July 2009
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Friday, July 24, 2009. Curiously, the Qur'an finds the notion that God can be limited even by God's own decrees to be unacceptable. Hence there is one verse (Surah 2:106) None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We substitute something better or similar; knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things? Freedom" ...
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Literary Talk: Would YOU Assassinate Hitler?
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Thursday, July 9, 2009. Would YOU Assassinate Hitler? Do you commit murder and suffer whatever the moral consequences of your act with the thought that "the end justifies the means", OR, so you refrain from playing God and taking the law into your own hands on the grounds that you become just as bad as the person you assassinate?
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Literary Talk: Windows Of Opportunity Which Open And Close
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Windows Of Opportunity Which Open And Close. My friend opened a fortune cookie which said "act before the window of opportunity closes" and she thought "what the hell does THAT mean.". Here is my response. Life is a series of "windows of opportunity.". My friend has made the choice to say no to the kind of heavy prescrip...
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Literary Talk: Justice David Souter
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Thursday, August 6, 2009. I attended SJC Alumni Club meetings in NYC in the early 1990s and there was an Alum there that embraced this Waldenesque style of living of Souters as well. At the time I thought it was a pretty bold approach, but years later I found out that HDT didnt spend all his time at The Pond, but in fact took off weekends to go ...
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Literary Talk: Sin as Missing The Mark
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Sunday, July 5, 2009. Sin as Missing The Mark. The Greek word in the New Testament that denotes "sin" is "hamartia" which has its origins in Homeric Greek as a word in archery to denote "missing the mark". Here is how Aristotle used the word in "Poetics" and in "Nichomachian Ethics". Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia. Excerpt from above link:.
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Literary Talk: What Is Freedom
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Friday, July 24, 2009. Curiously, the Qur'an finds the notion that God can be limited even by God's own decrees to be unacceptable. Hence there is one verse (Surah 2:106) None of Our revelations do We abrogate or cause to be forgotten but We substitute something better or similar; knowest thou not that Allah hath power over all things? Freedom" ...
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Literary Talk: March 2008
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Thursday, March 27, 2008. Sad account by a former novice. Http:/ hocna.info/Testimony-Elias.shtml. Links to this post. Monday, March 24, 2008. I am not a who; I am a what. I am a misstatement written into the divine dissertation. I am an object of scorn and derision,. Fit only for the role of hobble-de-hoi to the mass of. Frank has not named the...
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Literary Talk: Childrens questions about sex
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Heavily Influenced by St. John's Annapolis GREAT BOOKS Program, Class of '71, this is my 10th year posting on the Internet: Philosophy, Religion, Poetry, Essays. Sunday, July 12, 2009. Childrens questions about sex. Child's Question: Where was I when you and mom got married? Father's Answer: A part of you was in mommy and a part was in daddy? Child's Next Question: Where was my HEAD? Parent: She is only age 3. Parent: Perhaps you are overanalyzing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow me on Twitter.
