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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: August 2009
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Saturday, August 22, 2009. Pain, Belief and Community. Or rather: how to endure this pain? The best and perhaps only way of endurance in my view is building communities of love, care and support. How will you comprehend what the steep ascent is? To free a neck (from the burden of slavery). Or to feed in times of famine. The orphan near in relationship,. Or the poor in distress;. Al-Qur’an, 90:12-17. Al-Quran invites believers to a...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: Scarecrows, Landscapes and Synaptic Tales
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Scarecrows, Landscapes and Synaptic Tales. Aldous Huxley, Island, Harper Classics, 245-246. The red parts are my musings. Nd down there, said Mary Sarojini, "are our scarecrows." [ As we will see in a moment, these are their gods. The word "scarecrows" suggests they evoke fear and issue commands]. Solomon in all his glory," he exclaimed, " was not arrayed like one of these.". And all the time a brisk win...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: "So much depends on a red wheel-barrow"
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Sunday, November 28, 2010. So much depends on a red wheel-barrow". I have always felt as if there is a subterranean and serious depth under the seemingly ordinary and playful surface of Williams' poem- a red wheel barrow, rain water and white chickens. After all, why does so much depend on the red wheel barrow? Especially when rain-water glazes it and white chickens gather around it? The red wheel-barrow built and used in unison?
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: September 2010
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Exposing The Religious Challenge to Quranic Prophets. 17:15 (M. Asad) Whoever chooses to follow the right path, follows it but for his own good; and whoever goes astray goes but astray to his own hurt; and no bearer of burdens shall be made to bear another" burden. Moreover, We would never chastise [any community for the wrong they may do before We have sent an apostle [to them]. 36:47 (M. Asad) Th...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: Insights from Thomas Nagel
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Saturday, November 6, 2010. Insights from Thomas Nagel. Thomas Nagel is one of my favorite thinkers. His thought ranges from the themes of death, absurdity, subjectivity&objectivity to issues of global justice, secularism, moral psychology and law. Below are some quotations from him. I hope they will be as much thought-provoking for you as they were for me:. On the Subjectivity of Experience. What is it like to be a bat?
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: The Anxiety of the Whistleblower
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Saturday, November 23, 2013. The Anxiety of the Whistleblower. How do whistleblowers fare in America, arguably one of the most advanced democracies in the world? S, page 49):. That if one is right and persistent, things will turn out all right in the end. That it makes sense to stand up and do the right thing. That the family is a haven in a heartless world. Spouses and children will not abondon you in your hour of need. The famil...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: December 2010
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Reflections on the "Plague". Let us reflect on certain passages from Albert Camus' Plague. Albert Camus, Plague, Vintage International,121. In the passage above, the town infected with the plague longs for 'the least ripple of cooler air.' It looks for a sign to revert back to the ordinary. 'The ordinary' promises to heal the town more effectively than the cry of the zealous evangelist. Plague thus creat...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: November 2013
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Saturday, November 23, 2013. The Anxiety of the Whistleblower. How do whistleblowers fare in America, arguably one of the most advanced democracies in the world? S, page 49):. That if one is right and persistent, things will turn out all right in the end. That it makes sense to stand up and do the right thing. That the family is a haven in a heartless world. Spouses and children will not abondon you in your hour of need. The famil...
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT: Reflections on the "Plague"
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Onur Muftugil: STEEP ASCENT. Restless Inquiries and Heteredox Reflections. Sunday, December 19, 2010. Reflections on the "Plague". Let us reflect on certain passages from Albert Camus' Plague. Albert Camus, Plague, Vintage International,121. In the passage above, the town infected with the plague longs for 'the least ripple of cooler air.' It looks for a sign to revert back to the ordinary. 'The ordinary' promises to heal the town more effectively than the cry of the zealous evangelist. Plague thus creat...
