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“Conversions”
“Conversions” What we believe influences our taste, our most consequential choices, our self-esteem and sense of our own weight in the world. When we are viewed from outside and classified, what’s typically picked out are the inherited features (“nature”) and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Faith, Feminism, history of ideas, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, Spirituality, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman
Tagged Ariadne's Thread, Aristotle, atheist, behavior therapy, belief, believer in free will, brainwashing, Caravaggio, coercion, confessions, conservative, conversion, determinist, duress, feminist, Fidelista, friendship, gnostic, Hank Williams, I Saw the Light, Jew, labyrinth, nature and nurture, paradigm change, personal identity, self-concept, sincerity, stimulus response conditioning, The Road to Damascus, theist, traditional woman, transformation, truth
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“Faith”
“Faith” What is the place of faith in a woman’s life or a man’s? In what should we have faith and when is it best to withhold it? As a small child, it’s been reported that I was standing on … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Culture, Desire, Faith, Femininity, history of ideas, life and death struggle, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, The Examined Life
Tagged Ammon Hennacy, blind-faith, Catholic Worker, Catholic Worker Movement, Catholicism, Cherokee, Dorothy Day, Faith, French, Ghandi, God, Isle St. Louis, Jew, Jewish, Lower Manhattan, Midstream Magazine, North Carolina, pacifism, pacifist, pogrom, Quaker, reservation, Russia, unseen, W. H. Auden
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