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Saint Ranieri, Meet George Jetson: Deconstruction Illustrated with a Catholic Painting
__________ What is deconstruction? In postmodern theory, deconstruction (in a nutshell) is the undoing of an author’s controlling intentions by time and audience reception. This can only happen because texts are made of parts, not coherent wholes. Over time, parts … Continue reading
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Tagged art, deconstruction, history, imagination, lenny kravitz, literature, philosophy, postmodernism, time
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Choosing Atheism Or Theism Is An Act Of Imagination
The universe appears to be lacking in purpose in some ways, but not in others. For example, the Holocaust and the panda’s “thumb” would seem to suggest that we live in a historically contingent universe indifferent and blind to both suffering and … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, faith, God, imagination, Jesus, Nietzsche, Richard Dawkins, theism
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Cyborg Lobster Watch: A Remote-Controlled Plane as a Tool for Vision
Some questions: Is an extension of man, man? Where does the self end and our tools begin? And when we look-in on the “flights” of another person’s consciousness, extended and carried via a remote-controlled plane, does that become us as well? Or … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, cyborg lobsters, cyborgs, extensions of man, flight, imagination, lobsters, the self, tools
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Sun Salutation
_____ True shield of Aten, color of Van Gogh’s Beard, in an eggy apron of aloes My skin I present to you. O mushroom Atomic; aureola at noon; yolk; bloom Atop Earth’s dome of blue: meet your black pupil (That … Continue reading
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Tagged body, imagination, life, literature, matter, mind, poem, poetry, summer, sun salutation, the sun, yoga
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Rod Serling is the Devil!
Not literally, of course. But it occurred to me this morning that Rod Serling’s appeal as a guide to his Twilight Zone episodes is this: he functions as a sublimated devil, the camara darting him into visual consciousness out of nowhere. Serling is a Virgil, but not … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, fantasy, imagination, life, rod serling, Satan, science fiction, the devil, the twilight zone, vain imaginings, writing
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Entering the Twilight Zone via Solitude and Day Dreaming, and Maybe Meeting the Devil (or Rod Serling)
Last week, I wrote a meditative piece on the role that solitude plays in the life of the mind, and how I felt it to be akin to entering Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone (see here). I suggested that if you expose … Continue reading
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Tagged apostle Paul, creative writing, creativity, imagination, rod serling, Satan, solitude, St. Paul, the devil, the twilight zone, thoreau, walden
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Solitude: How to Expose Yourself to the Twilight Zone for Real
This past weekend I was thinking about the importance of solitude to the life of the mind, and it occurred to me that it is useful to think of solitude as a place of exposure. Solitude, in other words, is where we … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, imagination, inspiration, Isaac Newton, meditation, Nietzsche, percy shelley, philosophy, solitude, the twilight zone, twilight zone, walking
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Thinking about the Fifth Dimension (the Imagination and the Musical Group)
In a world where God is dead (or at least silent), what dimension should you live in? In other words, should you live in “reality” (whatever that really is) or might you skip the reality quest and spend your life mostly in the realm of imagination? Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, balloons, Dionysus, imagination, Jesus, Nietzsche, Paul, peter pan, romanticism, St. Paul, the fifth dimension, the imagination
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Entering the Fifth Dimension (the Imagination) with Nietzsche, Don Quixote, Rod Serling, and Lawrence Krauss
One of the insights of Friedrich Nietzsche—at least in my reading of him—is that imagination is a dimension, apart from reality, that you can live in. This, of course, is also Don Quixote. And Rod Serling in the Twilight Zone: There … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, don quixote, imagination, lawrence krauss, Nietzsche, peter pan, philosophy, reality, rod serling
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Catholic Priest, Father James Martin, fails to see the beauty of a fast moving woman in New York City
Catholic priest, James Martin, offers this incident as illustration of the richness of (his) existence that our plugged-in culture is bypassing: Not long ago, I was walking through a park in New York City. Racing across Union Square to an … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Catholicism, feminism, God, imagination, Keats, philosophy, psychology, reification, solitude, William Wordsworth, women's equality
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Thinking about Nietzsche: does truth matter?
One thing that the religious fundamentalist and the secular scientist agree on is this: what is actually true matters. Or, as they say on the X Files, “The truth is out there.” I’m not interested in denying that the world really … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Ayn Rand, epistemology, existentialism, freedom, hippies, imagination, lies, Nietzsche, the counter-enlightenment, truth
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Ye shall be as gods
And with technology like that depicted in the video below, you can have the illusion of your home being anywhere. Over time, as technologies like this one spread, will our will to fight for real land be weakened? I mean, who will … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, illusion, imagination, Israel, land, territory, the middle east, the mind, virtual reality, war
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“The Creative Writer”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Outside your garret, voices. And you might use them. But you prefer the inner mausoleum of desk drawers and the burial shawls of clean white paper. It’s a cover, you say, for you really are the bee which through the … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, creative writing, imagination, literature, mfa, poems, poetry, psychology, writing
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Certainty, Disorientation, and Imagination
One reason that I am an agnostic is that I think that both atheists and theists can sometimes be too dismissive of DISORIENTATION as a means of accessing the IMAGINATION. If we know too much of the end of a story, … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, creative writing, imagination, literature, philosophy, poetry, religion, science, thoreau
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