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Tennis and Freud
After watching the men’s Wimbledon final today, I would say that tennis is sublimated sword fighting with the addition of ball control.
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Tagged Freud, life, psychology, sex, sports, sublimation, tennis
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This is What the Tablet Future Looks Like?
Maybe. But contra the video, probably not this year.
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Tagged computers, Moses, sports, tablets, technology, the ten commandments
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Fox News Christian Brit Hume’s Invitation to ESPN Buddhist Tiger Woods
Ah, when television news and sports personalities collide—over religion! This today at National Review: Brit Hume’s comments on Fox News Sunday — “I don’t think that [Buddhism] offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged brit hume, Buddhism, Christianity, God, golf, Jesus, Judaism, religion, sports, television, tiger woods
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Eugenics is Fun! Genetic Tracking of Children in Chinese Summer Camps!
According to this rather sunny CNN report from China, the genetic tests applied to these summer camp toddlers “work even on newborns!” Gee. That means, of course, that the tests could also be applied to preborns, doesn’t it? Did you notice that the … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, children, China, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, history, psychology, Social Darwinism, sports, summer camp
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Existential Contingency and Absurdity Explained by an “Onion Network News” Sports Video-Clip
Fully digesting the philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre, and soberly pondering Albert Camus’s famous observation that the first question of every life is whether or not to commit suicide—and then losing the opening coin toss to the Tennessee Titans—the Jacksonville … Continue reading
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How Many People Could the Ancient Colosseum in Rome Hold?
Answer: According to BBC’s website, about 50,000 adult men. Constructed in the 70s CE, the ancient elliptical amphitheatre was originally called the Amphitheatrum Flavium, and was the largest stadium in the Roman Empire. The Book of Revelation, in its imagery and … Continue reading
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Tagged 70 CE, Book of Revelation, Colosseum, history, New Testament, Roman Colosseum, Roman Empire, Rome, Santi Tafarella, Spectacles of Empire, sports, stadiums
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Time Capsule: What Did the Times of London Look Like on the Morning After the Opening of the Olympics in Beijing (August 9, 2008)?
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“California in 1957”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
Giants and Dodgers moving west without Ebbets Field or Jackie Robinson but with Jack Kerouac and Holiday Inns rounding third at the Pacific and driving not sliding home
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