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Daily Archives: November 15, 2009
Wilfred Owen’s “Futility”
One of Wilfred Owen’s great poems is titled “Futility” (1918). It begins with a commander of men at war directing a couple of his soldiers to move into the sun the body of a recently dead comrade: Move him into … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, atheism, atheist, death, existentialism, futility, God, Job, philosophy, the book of Job, the problem of suffering, Wilfred Owen
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Mental Health Break
Karen Carpenter on the BBC, September 21, 1971:
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Tagged break ups, karen carpenter, life, longing, love, love letters, mental health break, music, psychology
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PZ Myers Finally Rises into Bryan Appleyard’s Radar
And Appleyard skewers him, returning rhetorical fire with rhetorical fire: I note also the appearance of this character P.Z.Myers. I’ve never read him before but I now discover he once did me over – ‘How stupid are the editors and … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, bryan appleyard, Catholic, Catholicism, Daniel Dennett, jerry coyne, New Atheists, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins
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Evolution Debated
An interesting William F. Buckley organized debate, refereed by Michael Kinsley, on evolution and intelligent design:
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Tagged biology, Charles Darwin, creation, evolution, God, intelligent design, philosophy, science
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The Higher Self and the Lower Self: Theseus and the Minotaur
An 1843 sculpture, by Antoine-Louis Barye, of Theseus slaying the Minotaur: Theseus’s entering the center of the Labyrinth at Knossos and slaying the Minotaur has sometimes been associated with Apollonian order and culture overcoming the bestial elements of body and psyche. And in … Continue reading
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Tagged athens, Freud, Greek mythology, Jung, life, psychology, the double, the minotaur, the self, theseus
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Prometheus Unbound 