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The Old Year Resolved
Since I had the afternoon free, I thought it would be interesting to reread my journal entries from 12/30/22 to the present evening. How had the past year gone for me personally? Actually, I’d expected to find chasms that had … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century Romanticism, 4000 year old conflict, a balanced life, Abraham's blessing, anti-semitism in America, anti-semitism's global reappearance, anxiety and reality, artists who stay normal, avant-garde artists, Biblical combats for the legacy, Biblical fights over the inheritance, challenges of life, cherem in the Hebrew Bible, competing cultural values, competing for the Biblical blessing, conforming nonconformists, culture and holy writ, Davidic genealogy, diary record, empathy at a distance, evil's reach, extraordinary opinions expressed as ordinary, fashionable radicals, finding one's purpose in life, German Romanticism, German Romantics, going along to get along, Hamas and moral contagion, happiness, Hegel, hysteria mistaken for talent, indulging youthful rebellion, Isaac's descendents, Ishmael and Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, Ishmael Isaac and the blessing, Islam's conflict with Jews, Islam's conflict with Judaism, Islamic triumphalism, Jonah and the Ninevites, joyful serenity, limits of cherem in Biblical Israel, living and dying by ideas, multiculturalism in Biblical Israel, New Year resolution, October 7, opposing evil, opposing middle-class morality, past life motivating current life, past life vision, Paul Gauguin, people are what they believe, people live and die for their Absolute, personal equilibrium, personal growth, personal journal, personal memories, personal story, Peter Paul Rubens, revoked ban on the Amalekites, Sarah and Hagar, self-maintenance, shocks of life, slaying dragons, storm and stress, Sturm und Drang, suicidal nonconformity, talent and hysterics, talent doesn't need abnormality, the Book of Ruth, the oldest hatred, the personal becomes geo-political, the Quran and Jews, the Quran on Jews at end of history, unconventional opinions expressed as if normal, unresolved Arab-Israeli conflict, year-end retrospective
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The Deep and the Shallow
The Deep and the Shallow A medley of book review weeklies and monthlies arrive here in a more or less continuous stream. I look through them, both to get an idea of what’s new – what is getting the attention … Continue reading →
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