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My Father’s Continuing Funerary Cortege
My Father’s Continuing Funerary Cortege A country song comes to mind as I try to picture what reading the complete extant papers of my father has been like for me during these past weeks. There’s a long line of mourners … Continue reading →
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Treachery and Transcendence
Treachery and Transcendence In a recent column, I told of a problem that arose during a new treatment for my walking handicap. One of the administering nurses routinely used an expression — always accompanied by a little laugh — that … Continue reading →
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Tagged "do no harm", a patient's trust, accusation, acting up, anger, blaming the victim, confrontations, consolation from prayer, cover story, curing injustice, demeaning words, detachment, disrespect, effective treatment, effects of prayer, errant employee, fury, gaslighting, guilt, handicap, in-house politics, incredible, insight from prayer, intelligent hope, keeping it brief, lost trust, lying, manipulation, medical protocol, meta-level, micro-aggression, mind/body connection, minimalist explanation, mischievous employee, neuropathy, nuns, nurse, office politics, outrage, patient's dignity, patient's rights, petitionary prayer, plausible, prayer, promise breaking, promise keeping, reprisal, responsible administration, righteous indignation, self-defense, self-exculpation, self-exoneration, self-protection, sense of dignity, significant dreams, signs of guilt, sympathy, tactlessness, the Hippocratic Oath, transparency, treatment room, trespass, troubleshooter, trust, under the radar, walking handicap, witness consciousness
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The Moral Drama of the World
The Moral Drama of the World It’s Erev Rosh Ha Shana (the eve of the Jewish New Year 5777) and here I am, not in synagogue tonight, because I have a column to script. Likewise tomorrow I’ll be late for … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the evil tongue", "the natural attitude", "the phenomenological reduction", Abigail's Adages, aggression, anti-Semites, anti-semites at Trump rallies, attachment, BDS anti-semitism, BLM anti-semitism, bracketing, closing argument, college campus anti-semites, commitment, defamation, derogatory speech, detachment, doing philosophy, Edmund Husserl, Erev Rosh Ha Shana, Evil, false and defamatory, fighting back, give it your all, gossip, High Holidays, hope and fear, intrigue, Jewish acculturation, Jewish life, Jewish mainstream, Jewish New Year 5777, lashon hara, life review, loss of reputation, making the case, manipulation, martial arts, moral drama, non-resistance, objectivity, oldest hatred, personal enemy, Persuasion, philosophy's practical uses, prayer guidance, professional defenses, Reform temple, reputation, rumors, self-defense, slander, social defeat, social defenses, social self-defense, Submission, synagogue services, synagogues, temple, Terror, the moral drama of the world, the new anti-Semitism, turning the other cheek, usefulness of philosophy
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