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September 11, A Week Later
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading
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September 11, A Week Later
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, art, cities, contradictions, cool, culture, desire, dialectic, ethics, evil, faith, freedom, friendship, guilt and innocence, health, heroes, history, history of ideas, ideality, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, memoir, non-violence, peace, political, political movements, power, psychology, relationships, religion, roles, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, time, twentieth century, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged 9/11, art protection, attack, Byzantine crucifix, city walkers, cops, crisis, crisis center, cultural crisis, defining event, emergency vehicles, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faith, fear, fearfulness, FEMA, fire station, first responders, God Bless America, gratitude, Ground Zero, heroes, immanence, Jihad, Job, Kali, Lower Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum, National Guard, New York City, New York Subway, New Yorkers, realism, sorrow, spirit, sprit of the City, street smarts, terrorism, Todd Stone, transcendence, TV history, urban neighborhood, voyeurism, walking intelligently, Wall Street, war zone
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September 11, A Week Later –
This post, written the week after September 11, 2001, is dedicated to Frank De Martini and Pablo Ortiz. Starting at the 88th floor on the North Tower, they went from floor to floor calling out to people who crouched in … Continue reading
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, action, alienation, art, cities, contradictions, cool, culture, desire, dialectic, ethics, evil, faith, freedom, friendship, guilt and innocence, health, heroes, history, history of ideas, identity, ideology, idolatry, institutional power, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, memoir, non-violence, peace, political, political movements, power, psychology, relationships, religion, roles, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, time, twenty-first century, violence, war, work, writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged 9/11, art protection, attack, Byzantine crucifix, city walkers, cops, crisis, crisis center, cultural crisis, defining event, emergency vehicles, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Faith, fear, fearfulness, FEMA, fire station, first responders, God Bless America, gratitude, Ground Zero, heroes, immanence, Jihad, Job, Kali, Lower Manhattan, Metropolitan Museum, National Guard, New York City, New York Subway, New Yorkers, realism, sorrow, spirit, sprit of the City, street smarts, terrorism, Todd Stone, transcendence, TV history, urban neighborhood, voyeurism, walking intelligently, Wall Street, war zone
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The Ex-Terrorist Comes to Town
The Ex-Terrorist Comes to Town Yesterday our temple sponsored a lecture by Kasim Hafeez, a Brit of Pakistani origin who had seriously resolved to give his life for jihad and then changed his mind. Everybody on the planet has an … Continue reading
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Tagged "Never Again", Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel, Amalekites, anti-semitism, anti-Zionism, BDS, Ben Gurion airport, biblical foundation, Bosnia genocide, British urbanity, Canannites, chariots of Israel, Christianity, dead Jews, demagogue, devout Muslim, Elijah, Elisha, extremism, First Temple, genocide prevention, good Jews, Greek Civilization, Hamas, hating Israel, Herodian structure, Hezbollah, Hittites, Holocaust, identity crisis, IDF, Islam, Israel as foundation, Israel's contributions to the world, Israeli Arabs, Israeli Druse, Israeli security, Jebusites, Jewish anti-Zionism, Jewish Federation, Jewish Israelis, Jewish self-defense, Jews outnumbered, Jihad, Josephus, Kasim Hafeez, King Solomon's Temple, lost dignity, Muslim militants, Pakistan, Pakistani immigrant, Peace Center, Perrizites, Philistines, political agitation, political science, political status, preaching to the choir, prejudice, Presbyterians, questioning assumptions, radicalization, retreat from Gaza, retreat from Lebanon, righteous hatred, Roman Civilization, Rwanda genocide, Second Temple, spirituality, story of humanity, terrorism, theism, victimization, Western Civilization, Western religion, Western Wall, Yom ha Shoah
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