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Do Miracles Happen?
Do Miracles Happen? Occasionally something occurs that you or I might be tempted to call “a miracle.” But: what follows when you try to talk about a “miracle” that you think might have happened to you? Despite the Establishment Clause … Continue reading
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Tagged "Freddie's lost his cool", A.J. Ayer, accepted views, altruism, Analytic philosophy, Anglophone philosophy, annihilation of consciousness, anthologies of religion, Atheism, atheist, atheist anxieties, belief system, body as mechanism, brain damage, brain death, British Humanist Association, brute features of humanity, chance as explanatory, Darwinism, definition of miracles, established religion, Establishment Clause, evolutionary biology, felt futility, First Amendment, fruitful outcome, getting nowhere, heart death, human refinement, identity theory, improbable events, laws of nature, laws of probability, life after death, life deceits, light on the meaning, logical positivism, meaning of life, meaningful events, meaninglessness, mental clatter, mind is brain, miracles, N.D.E., natural selection, near death experience, non-conformism, noticing a miracle, O.B.E., objectivity, origin of space and time, out of body experience, out of the closet, perceiving a miracle, philosophical failure, philosophical success, private experience, randomness, Rationalist Press Association, reductionism, religious doctrine, religious tolerance, role of chance, secular humanism, seeing God, selling the Brooklyn Bridge, sense data, social conformism, social dissent, social excommunication, social isolation, South Place Ethical Society, stopping to listen, stopping to look, Sunday Telegraph, supernatural event, survival drive, synchronicity, synchronous events, target of ridicule, The Big Bang, the material world, the objective world, the selfish gene, theory of evolution, US Constitution, what's a miracle?
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“Work and Life”
“Work and Life” The writer Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have said, about the aim of life, that it’s “to last and get your work done.” Well, he didn’t exactly do either. He did not last, for he killed himself, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction in art, aim of life, Aladdin's lamp, allegory, artistic sterility, British India, censorship, Charlie Rose, courage, death and art, death of art, decoding writing, deconstructionism, encoded writing, Enlightenment, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, fantasy, fisherman, genies, great American novel, groundedness, heresy, Islamic mindset, Islamic Orthodoxy, Islamic sensibility, jinn, Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing, liberal Muslims, magic, magical beings, magical realism, meaning of art, meaning of life, Modernity, Nobel Prize, novels, One Thousand and One Nights, overcoming adversity, post modernism, real life, realism, Romanticism, Sahih Al-Bukhari's The Translation of the Meanings of Ahadith Vol. 1-9 tr. by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, scholarship, sterility, T.V author interview, the human spirit, ungroundedness
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“The Coat”
“The Coat” The other day, I could not find my coat. I’d sat through one edifying lecture too many, during which I’d had trouble not falling to the floor from sheer fatigue. Afterward, famished, I’d stopped at my café for … Continue reading
Posted in culture, desire, fashion, femininity, philosophy, the problematic of woman
Tagged boutique, coat, coffee, Degas, demi-saison, fashion, French fashion, garments, loss, love, meaning of life, New York City, philosophy, style, Women
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