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Daily Archives: January 27, 2009
The Makers of South Park Illustrate an Alan Watts Anecdote on “Life as Music”
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Tagged alan watts, Buddhism, death, life, philosophy, psychology, religion, school, south park, success, Zen
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John Updike Died Today
According to the AP: An old-fashioned believer in hard work, he published more than 50 books in a career that started in the 1950s.
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Tagged America, authors, books, English, hard work, john updike, life, literature, novelists, poetry, writers, writing
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“I call it, ‘The Torment of Existence Weighed Against the Horror of Nonbeing'”: A Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon to Cheer Up Gloomy Existentialists
There is a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that I especially like. Calvin has just made a decidedly non-traditional SNOWMAN that looks, with his gaping mouth and look of agony, akin to Edward Munch’s The Scream, and says to Hobbes: I call it, “The Torment … Continue reading
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Tagged art, calvin and hobbes, Camus, comedy, existentialism, humor, life, literature, philosophy, poetry, Sartre
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“We’re a nation not just where you are free to believe or not to believe; we’re a nation founded for Him”: Rick Warren, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and the Theocratic Temptation
Kathryn Jean Lopez, of the National Catholic Register, offers a theocratic spin to the meaning of America (and Obama’s inauguration prayer): Rick Warren reminded us why all eyes were on the Capitol steps that Tuesday afternoon: “in His name.” We’re a … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, Bible, church and state, covenant, first amendment, Genesis, gospel of Matthew, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, religion, rick warren
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If You Want to Know What is Really Going on With GLOBAL WARMING, Here is the WEBSITE To Follow
It’s called RealClimate.org. And here’s the kicker: It is a site that talks about climate science in accessible, lay terms—even though all eleven of its contributors are CLIMATE SCIENTISTS. Imagine that. Informed adult reflection and discussion on GLOBAL WARMING. Who would have … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, earth, ecology, environment, global warming, greenhouse effect, life, real climate, science
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