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Essays from the Underground: Seven Windows on Harry Potter and the Fantastic World
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Essays from the Underground. Saturday, November 12, 2005. Seven Windows on Harry Potter and the Fantastic World. These are the notes that go with our Powerpoint Presentation on harry Potter which you can find here:. 1 What stories are being told? Stories about fantastic things, about magic and adventure. Stories about good triumphing over evil. Stories in which love is the ultimate saving power. Stories in which the little guy, the underdog, wins against all odds. Stories about courage and loyalty. The p...
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Essays from the Underground: Worldview, Chiarelli, and Social Sciences
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Essays from the Underground. Saturday, November 12, 2005. Worldview, Chiarelli, and Social Sciences. This is Part II of the previous post on The Concept of Worldview. Relation of Worldview to the Social Sciences. The rest of this essay is my attempt at a worldviewish critique of Chiareli (2002) and his. Through the Window of Language. For starters, Chiareli’s language tells me that he is a closet Marxist. If not, he’s at least an operational. For example, like a good trade unionist he wants to commit to ...
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Essays from the Underground: 11/12/05
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Essays from the Underground. Saturday, November 12, 2005. What follows is a brief exploration and critique of the worldview beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche. There are two key questions with regards to this critique and, given the complexity of Nietzsche’s thought, I am certainly not even attempting to suggest that I have anything like complete answers for them in this short essay. These questions are: What are the foundations of Nietzsche’s worldview? The Centrality of the Word: The Will to Language.
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Essays from the Underground: 07/28/05
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Essays from the Underground. Thursday, July 28, 2005. Genesis means ‘becoming’. The book was given this name because it. Contains the description of the ‘becoming’ of the world, the human race, and the. Chosen people of Israel. 1. Day 1 day/night (1: 3-5). Day 2 sky/seas (1: 6-8). Day 3 water/dry land (1: 9-13). And then returns in sequence to fill these domains with life, ie:. Day 4 sun/moon/stars (1: 14-19). Day 5 birds/fish (1: 20-23). Day 6 land animals/humans (1: 24-31). The centre of the pattern be...
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Essays from the Underground: 06/30/05
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Essays from the Underground. Thursday, June 30, 2005. Home Schooling and Community. Enterprises Ltd, 30 June 2005. One of the main criticisms of home schooled children relates directly to their interaction with local communities. Questions are often raised about the abilities of home schooled children to function out there in the real world . This quotation from a recent US periodical illustrates the point:. But what about these suspicions? Bunday (1999) cites recent Ph.D. thesis which measured t...Bunda...
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Essays from the Underground: The Concept of Worldview
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Essays from the Underground. Saturday, November 12, 2005. The Concept of Worldview. It can be quite a head-spinning task to try and grasp what is meant by the term worldview. The word itself comes from the German Weltanschauung. Which is made up two other words. One is welt. Which translates easily into world. In English and anschauung. Which comes from the verb anschauuen. Which simply means to look. Thus, to talk about a weltanschauung. Is to talk about how we look at the world. He notes that while the...
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Essays from the Underground: 07/05/05
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Essays from the Underground. Tuesday, July 05, 2005. Awake My People: Salt and Citizenship. Recent times in New Zealand have seen us confronted with many issues of major social importance. Increased violence, lawlessness, injustice, drug and physical abuse, homosexual and prostitution law reform, civil unions and who knows what next? A scrutiny of the state of our present society could leave us a sense of hopelessness and despair. Where is God and why isn’t he acting? Will it be like this indefinitely?
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Essays from the Underground: 07/26/05
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Essays from the Underground. Tuesday, July 26, 2005. A Worldview Critique of the Shopping Mall. Take control of the moment - you have the power to purchase happiness. God doesn’t exist here at the Mall. He’s let us down anyway. Life isn’t fair or easy enough so we’ve created this new world where you can create your own paradise. But time is of the essence. You can’t afford to miss out, so hurry and buy today! Progress marches on with every new season’s arrivals. Get that up to the minute look. This poor ...
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Essays from the Underground: 12/20/05
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Essays from the Underground. Tuesday, December 20, 2005. The Meaning of Work. The purpose of this essay is to explore and develop a biblical understanding of the meaning of work, arguably one of the big contours of scripture, with reference to the complete book of Genesis and its relationship to the full canon of Scripture. What follows then, is a Christian response to this issue starting in Genesis but not stopping in Genesis. 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. The God...
