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Daily Archives: October 30, 2008
Living Without Miracle, Mystery, and Authority?: OZ Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man (That He Didn’t Already Have)
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Tagged America, authoritarian, authoritarianism, authority, flungness, gnosticism, music, religion, Wizard of Oz
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Albert Camus in a Neil Diamond Song
Because my dad was a big Neil Diamond fan, I’ve heard this song all my life—and yet missed Albert Camus’ name in the lyrics. I also missed Ramakrishna and Whistler’s mother. This YouTube catches them all: How did I miss … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, Albert Camus, atheism, existentialism, history, music, neil diamond, philosophy, poetry, ramakrishna
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John McSAME
Same old. Same old.
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Tagged Colorado, conservatism, Democrat, Florida, George Bush, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, Republican, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity
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Shiloh and the Origin of Religion: Neil Diamond Sings to His Imaginary Friend
IS prayer and worship the expression of longing and inner dialogue (directed to a projected self)? And when religion turns fundamentalist, is it because this metaphorical self is LITERALIZED? In short, does fundamentalism mistake the metaphor for something REAL (like a bee trying … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, existentialism, Jesus, longing, neil diamond, prayer, religion, worship
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The Heart
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Tagged death, family, first love, first marriage, jim croce, life, loneliness, longing, love, music, psychology
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“And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don’t know”: Socratic Skepticism in a Kansas Song (1976)
Rising above the noise and confusion of the herd—to other noises and other confusions?:
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Tagged cool cats, Kansas, music, mystical states, philosophy, Plato, poetry, psychology, reason, Socrates, the Enlightenment
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Prometheus Unbound 