Blog Stats
- 2,886,739 readers since June 2008
Recent Comments
- ANSWER THE QUESTIONS - Essay Classes on Feminism for Beginners
- What does Lee Smolin mean when he says that the most fundamental theory can have no symmetries? – GrindSkills on Lee Smolin’s Time Reborn: Physics, Evolution, Atheism, and Buddhism
- Anon on Hanger 18: 1950s Military Clerk-Typist, June Crane, Claims That There Were Alien Bodies Stored at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
- ra on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Mars on Clit Rubbing Bonobos: A Clue to the Evolutionary Origin of Human Homosexuality?
- lastunicorn5 on In 1935, Were Cary Grant and Randolf Scott Sex Partners? No, But These Images Look Rather Camp
- Rhianna on Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Nevaeh on Matthew 27:51-53: The Bible’s “Night of the Living Dead” Passage
- Dogwhistle politics explained on A List Of Republican Dog Whistles That No Longer Seem To Work
- Why Do Christian Fundamentalists Burn Books – theologyarchaeology on Does the Bible Advocate Book Burning?
- Philosophy homework help - Nursing Essays Center on Feminism for Beginners
- Philosophy homework help - Coursework Heros on Feminism for Beginners
- Pat on Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
- Answer the questions | Philosophy homework help | Writings Gate on Feminism for Beginners
- mike on Blogging UFOs: What Do You Make of Professor Robert Jacobs’s Bizarre UFO Testimony?
Top Posts
- Emily Dickinson, Lesbian?: Her Letter to Susan Gilbert, in June of 1852, Might Tell Us Less Than You Think
- Clit Rubbing Bonobos: A Clue to the Evolutionary Origin of Human Homosexuality?
- Walt Whitman: "To be indeed a God!"
- What, Exactly, Is Wrong With Bestiality?
- "The Vision of Christ That Thou Dost See": William Blake on the Many Faces of Jesus
- Dissipation-Driven Adaptive Organization: Is Jeremy England The Next Charles Darwin?
- Fight or Flight? Two Ways to Read Matthew Arnold's Poem, "Requiescat" (1849)
- Trump's New Cancel Culture: Cancelling Black Voters
- Hanger 18: 1950s Military Clerk-Typist, June Crane, Claims That There Were Alien Bodies Stored at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
- Ludwig Wittgenstein for Beginners
-
Recent Posts
Recent Haiku Tweets
- @abrahampiper Yahweh as a frustrated deity, much to be pitied! Abraham Piper's insight here, if thought about as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 year ago
- RT @tbonier: More than 80M votes cast and we're not done yet. Thoughts: - It's too late for an "October surprise" to have a significant imp… 1 year ago
- RT @RachelBitecofer: 1. Want to thank @DanielNewman for using his HUGE platform for this work. I want to clarify what this is. In the voter… 1 year ago
- RT @RachelBitecofer: Tell me again about how old and feeble Joe Biden is??? twitter.com/ProjectLincoln… 1 year ago
- RT @RachelBitecofer: Remember when you had a chance to choose country over party and you chose party @SenatorCollins? Well, @ProjectLincol… 1 year ago
Tag Archives: Blake
Do Democracy, Mass Education, and Economic Prosperity Weaken God Belief?
Michael Shermer thinks so, and he has some data that supports him. Writing at Scientific American, here he is on democracy and mass education: One factor [in the decline of God belief internationally] is the dramatic spread of democracy around … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged atheism, belief, Blake, Dionysus, God, Michael Shermer, Nietzsche, tigers
1 Comment
What Would It Mean To Live For Eternity?
When you think about it, all you ever really have is the present, which the poet William Blake called “the moving image of eternity.” You recall the past in present memory and you model and anticipate the future in present … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Blake, Buddhism, death, determinism, existentialism, free will, God, life, meaning, the present, time
3 Comments
The Heart of Dante Alighieri
If you’ve never read Dante Alighieri, the following is written as an enticement for you to consider doing so. A Key Dante Biographical Data Point Dante was born in Florence in 1265, but he did not die there. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged beauty, Blake, dante, hell, Keats, life, love, poetry, Sophocles, The Divine Comedy, the inferno
2 Comments
Is this code for something?
And I’m getting a “Where’s Waldo” vibe from this music video as well.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1970s, Blake, experience, happiness, innocence, life, love, midday love, sex, sunshine, where's waldo
Leave a comment
Tea-Partiers in America Take Note: Marcel Theroux’s Creepy Tea Party in Japan
Marcel Theroux is a novelist and documentary film makers for BBC 4. He does some really interesting work. Here’s a clip from his documentary on Japan (In Search of Wabi Sabi ). I suppose that the clip below depicts some Blakean … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Blake, documentaries, experience, innocence, Japan, marcel theroux, Michael Jackson, pedophiles, tea, tea partiers, tea party movement, teabaggers
Leave a comment
Are You a Romantic or an Enlightenment Rationalist?
What, exactly, is being accessed by Todd here?:
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Blake, Freud, philosophy, poetry, psychology, reason, romanticism, Shelley, skepticism, Walt Whitman, Whitman, Wordsworth
Leave a comment
Santi Tafarella’s Poem, “The Appearance of the Real”
. . . . . . . . Beneath a dormant tree in brown eggshell crisp leaves a child found a white branch with a red blossom. . The branch bent at its middle and the child, to hold … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged autumn, Blake, childhood, crows, innocence to experience, John Keats, life, poems, poetry, reductionism, Santi Tafarella
Leave a comment
Something to Think About
An image of the Andromeda Galaxy from a book published in 1899: The Andromeda Galaxy is still there. The person who made its image is long gone. What traces of your actions will still be in this world a hundred years from … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1899, 19th century, andromeda galaxy, astronomy, Blake, poetry, space, telescope, William Blake
Leave a comment
“It is right it should be so”? William Blake and the Problem of Suffering
In the below lines from “Auguries of Innocence” (written in the first decade of the 1800s) William Blake suggests that suffering and joy are necessarily woven together—and are, metaphorically, the clothing of the soul. But why suffering must accompany joy … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged arthur schopenhauer, Blake, Freud, liebnitz, philosophy, poems, poetry, Politics, psychology, religion, suffering, William Blake
7 Comments
Jacob and the angel–or Enkidu and Gilgamesh
The Gilgamesh Epic embodies the tensions between order and wildness, not in the gods Apollo and Dionysus, as Nietzsche claims that the ancient Greeks do, but in the god-like characters of Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Gilgamesh is a city-dwelling ruler of a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ancient Greeks, Apollo, Bible, Blake, city, Dionysus, existentialism, Genesis, Gilgamesh Epic, God, Jacob, Jacob wrestles the angel, literature, myth, nature, Nietzsche, Norton Anthology of World Literature, poetry, religion, Sarah Lowall, soul, symbol, William Blake
Leave a comment
Lord Byron’s pro-war poem?
This untitled poem was written by Lord Byron in 1820: When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbors; Let him think of the glories of Greece and Rome, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anti-war, Blake, Byron, concientious objectors, conscientious objection, freedom, Greece, Santi Tafarella, Shelley, shot, war
11 Comments
Prometheus Unbound 