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Maybe the better term for the purposes of studying early text is 'supersessionism'. Documents like the Epistle to the Hebrews emphasize that the new m...

I share your view of negativity. There is a measure of his message in the anti-Semitic fury of Martin Luther. The path of Marcion is murky and mostly ...

The matter of whether and to what degree the Jewish world was Hellenized before Jesus does not bear upon the different expectations of what the arriva...

When asking you my question, I was focusing upon the conflicts amongst Jesus followers about what had or had not happened. What we can establish throu...

The pedicure of Ozymandias cracks alone in desert sand.

Can you provide some examples of that? Martin Luther emphasized a direct witnessing of the words of scripture in place of the middlemen of Orthodoxy. ...

Section 1, Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness. Third paragraph. Here is a link: Baudelaire, Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne

I can agree with Karr while entertaining Baudelaire: Not exactly nostalgia.

Like holding an ice cream cone up to a fan in Mobile.

Guilty, as charged and point taken. As another poet said, "the more that things change, the more they stay the same."

The culture "war" happening here is happening everywhere. We solve it together or fall under the same sword.

Negative feedback has made me less stupid about what is happening. I do not know enough about this life to weigh that against the nurturing that has b...

People have different limits of what they are ready to do in sudden events. Some by training, some by instinct. I cannot observe the results like a fo...

The rejection of the idea that the Creator is a copy of us or vice versa permeates the Ethics to a degree that is difficult to narrow down to a single...

I figure Spinoza made short work of this. We deliberate between choices as means to achieve our ends. Whatever is making it possible for this to happe...

The sense of inclusion you refer to varies greatly amongst different denominations. My mother (as a child) was prescribed by a doctor to leave her Sou...

I am left-handed. Many of those strengths appeared by what the right hand did better. I write on paper left-handed but many other tasks, like playing ...

I am not sure if you include me in that census. You are not in a position to judge what I believe or not. My uncertainty is for me to wrestle with. I ...

As I recall that conversation, the passage I emphasized in Gospel of Thomas was Jesus saying that the Kingdom of Heaven had arrived. That is a strong ...

Yes, the dominance of one view over competitors is prominent in the history of the first two hundred years after Jesus. Attempts at understanding how ...

I came off more dismissive than I intended. I am still looking for a free version of Murdoch's essays on these topics so I shouldn't criticize what I ...

If we are going to include Jung into the conversation, the differences between philosophical attempts to talk about 'being' and the terrain of 'psycho...

In the Metaphysics, there is a lot of emphasis upon what can be isolated as a specific kind from what can only be only known by means of analogy. The ...

What is meant by the "physical" is something I challenge as a self-evident idea. That is why I quoted Plotinus earlier in your OP. Plotinus speaks as ...

Playing my role on different nights evoked an interaction that was spooky at times. Eliot is not generally recognized as a genius of theater. I am goi...

Well, that is a bit of synchronicity. I played the Third Tempter in that play while being a very young man. I haven't thought about that for a long ti...

Indeed. I wish I had a better facility at languages and much more time left. I try to view translations against original texts. I love Neruda and Baud...

I found a Rilke poem that approaches Goethe's pursuit of memory and goes on from there:

The allegory of the cave concerns how we see images and then imagining a direct experience where those productions are not needed. There was a period,...

The division between the material and what is not material is made by us. We do not pick it up from the ground as a ready-made axe. The divide between...

Thank you for the readings. I did not realize he was a National Poet Laureate. I was turned on to him by a fellow New Yorker years ago. The words from...

How does the reference to the DOJ relate to this discussion?

I did not take the passage as a matter of intention. It was more a reporting of a gap. We do stuff and find out later what it brought about. Maybe. It...

Yes, there is a lot of ambiguity involved. The presence of the friend who judges him harshly but also lets him have his own way. The details of the ev...

Thanks for the article. I have long wondered about this connection when thinking back at my experiences with peyote as a young man. The reported exper...

I was thinking of a number of lines in Rilke but figured I would turn to something more painful to reflect the 'unbearable' aspect. The rhythm of 'Ame...

I find a difference between saying 'personal identity exists' and saying 'we experience the life of being a person.' The latter is a much simpler begi...

Looking over the vast range of what "Christianity" has come to mean for different persons over centuries of life, the common insistence amongst the di...

My man Le Rochefoucauld has that one covered:

Cool thread. I have long been fascinated by the ideas of the linear city as conceived by Soria and the Arterial arcology of Paulo Soleri. They present...

Not all frames of duality concern a single set of conditions. Neither do all collapses of dualities refer to a single experience or view of the world....

How does Kenny describe the difference? Which book are you reading? Is your exam on this book or upon different materials? Have you read any of the or...

Hesiod does not speak in the language of intervention. He says humans are on their fifth iteration after previous attempts by Zeus. The anticipation f...

I doubt a guarantee of "no harm" was given but there are certainly many who do read it that way. Apart from that, there are a number of ways that Socr...

In regard to political expediency, the parting words of Anytus in the Meno show a thug side to the business of the people: Imagining himself slandered...

They are means of access and sing when asked politely.

As I understand the literature, the role of the muses is different from 'familiar spirits'. The daimon who encourages Socrates to compose music is not...

I recognize that media is a big player in the description of what is happening. We have to decide for ourselves what is being discussed. And if that c...

Yes, pissing into the wind is not an effective strategy. I recently completed Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. It works through many of the so...

What is bizarre from one point of view may be 'normative' in another. The problem with saying the 'bias' is doing the talking is that it dispenses wit...