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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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“Peace in the Eye of the Storm”
“Peace in the Eye of the Storm” Today in morning meditation I noticed a sense of large-scale peacefulness in me. (Don’t worry, friends. It’ll pass, it’ll pass! I’ll still be me.) I must say it took me quite by surprise, … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure of life, Alexander the Great, Alexandrian empire, American Academy of Religion, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Aristotle, Asia Society, bullies, burnout, cafes, cafes and philosophers, Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, classical civilization, college administrators, conceptual accuracy, cultural heritage, denouncers denounced, denunciation, Diogenes, down time, Emmanuel Levinas, Epicurus, foresight, foretelling the future, freedom of conscience, French Revolution, futurology, G.W.F. Hegel, Greek amphitheaters, groundless denunciation, guillotine, Hellenistic civilization, hindsight, Hitler, hope, Human Resources, hunters and hunted, ideological bullies, inner peace, intelligent hope, McCarthyism, meditation, Metropolitan Museum, micro-aggression, miracles, moral directness, museum exhibits, museum going, overloaded, owl of Minerva, pedagogic vocation, Pergamon, peripatetics, personnel file, philosophers, philosophic talent, Prometheus, punishment of Prometheus, Roman temples, safe space, Salem witch trials, search for truth, Stoics, Sydney Carton, tainted personnel files, Title IX effects, transmission of culture, wave of the future, witch hunts
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Put-Downs
Put-Downs More than one accomplished male philosopher I know has confessed, in a let-your-hair-down moment, to having lived for years in fear of the moment when the world would discover the Total Fraud he really was and get him Unmasked. … Continue reading
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Tagged academic intrigue, academic pecking order, academic perks, academic politics, academic privilege, adversarial proceeding, Africa, angels, anger, animality, Arbitration, Arbitration Award, belittling, Biblical Daniel, Britain, brittleness, brutal forces, brutality, caricature, civilization, civilizations, colleagues, collegiality, conquest, corporation counsel, cross examination, cruelty, Daniel and the Lion's Den, Divine deliverance, doctoral degree, failure, grievance, hearing room, hegemony, Henry Ossawa Tanner, human civilization, human cruelty, human kindness, human suffering, humankind, hysterical females, imperialism, institutional rank, lawyering, major insults, major league, male philosophers, memoir, minor insults, miracles, moral rank, Ms., North and South America, open-heartedness, Oppression, peer review, philosophic frauds, power plays, powerful critics, professional power, providence, put downs, Q&A, seeing the story, self-advertisement, self-deprecation, self-promotion, slavery, Slavic countries, Success, suffering, sworn testimony, testimony under oath, The City University, the lion's mouth, Thomas Sowell's "Conquests and Cultures: An International History", titles, tragic annals, under oath, Union grievance, unmasking frauds, victimization
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“Jews and Christmas”
“Jews and Christmas” Lord! What a topic! No, please no. Years ago, I attended an interfaith discussion group peopled mostly by clergy, Jewish and Christian, also theologians and philosophers – all “religionists” as they are sometimes called today. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged "Danny Boy", "David and Bathsheba", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Solomon and Sheba", abomination of desolation, Amazon reviews, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, atonement doctrine, Ben Hur, beth midrash, careerism, Charlton Heston, Christian doctrine, Christmas carols, Christmas Eve, Christmas tree, critics, Crucification scene, dialogue, Edward Alexander, Edward Alexander's Jews Against Themselves, Gina Lollobrigida, Gregory Peck, Hanukkah, Hollywood Bible movies, interfaith, Isaiah 53, Jeff Hunter, Jesus, Jewish Anti-Zionists, Jewish apostates, Jewish nation, Jews, Jews and Christians, Jews for Jesus, Jews in Hollywood, longest hatred, Maccabees, medieval Christian persecution, Messiah, Michael Wyschogrod, miracles, most hated nation, new Christians, New Year 2016, original sin, Passion of Christ, people pleasing, persecution of Christians, philosophers, pogroms, Rainbow Group, religionists, salvation, Seleucid dynasty, street beatings, Suffering Servant, Susan Hayward, temple in Jerusalem, temple reconsecration, The Trinity, theologians, truthfulness, writers, Yul Brynner
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“The House in Maine”
“The House in Maine” Having grown up in city apartments, owning a home had never been high on my list of desirables. In fact, co-inheriting one, when my parents died, felt like the hand of a heavy fate on my … Continue reading
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Tagged acreage, ante-bellum homes, border disputes, city apartments, entropy, family belongings, fences, friendship, gospel, hometown, inheritance, land, Maine, memorabilia, memories, miracles, New England, New York, nostalgia, ownership, property, real estate, right-of-way, rodeos, selling a home, small towns, surveyors stakes, tradition
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