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My Worst Birthday
My Worst Birthday If we hadn’t begun it the evening before, it would have been even more disastrous. But I was scheduled to have an author photo taken by a professional photographer who does those things, and my dread of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", acts of God, Authenticity, author photo, authorial assignments, bad attitudes, birthday, birthday dinner, caring friends, childhood best friends, compatibility, compatible marriage, country gospel, disciplined callings, disciplined lives, earned miracles, emergency cancellations, expectations, finding the silver lining, French restaurant, frightening consequences, frustrating consequences, frustration, genuine friendships, good attitudes, gospel hymn, happy birthday, happy marriage, health imperative, imagined expectations, inauthenticity, inclement weather, inspiration, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, knee injury, light at the end of the tunnel, living for distraction, looking on the sunny side, lost footing, lowered expectations, Marriage, miracles, motels booked, motels dark, muffled inspiration, neuropathy, neuropathy treatments, Nor'easter, not settling for less, noticing the helps, photo phobia, power outage, prayer guidance, prestige and status, professional photographer, projected plans, projecting worst case, projection, real friends, romantic delusions, romantic hopes, Romantic Love, search for shelter, settling for less, significant other, sincerity, sincerity overrated, slough of despond, speaking enagements, staying in the present, the camera doesn't lie, the luck of the draw, the marriage lottery, the writing rationale, time-servers, true love, trust, trusting the helps, trying to pray, unaffected friendship, unforseen setbacks, variety in friends, wellness imperative, worst birthday, worst case scenario, worthwhile lives
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The Eternal Feminine
The Eternal Feminine Many years ago – it was our last evening in Paris – the first boy I loved told me that I had become, for him, “the eternal feminine.” Later I learned that his reference to Goethe’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Art, Art of Living, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Biblical God, Childhood, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Hegel, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, Memoir, memory, Messianic Age, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, Mortality, motherhood, Mysticism, novels, Ontology, Past and Future, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Movements, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, radicalism, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, Romanticism, scientism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged "normal" woman, "normal" woman's life, 586 BC, Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, Arch of Titus, biblical couples, boy/girl stuff, couples therapy, covenant renewal, Dara Horn's Eternal Life: A Novel, deathless heroine, debris of history, detritus of history, enthralling tale, eros of history, essence of history, eternal life, eternal people, evenings in Paris, false transcendence, feminist formulas, first love, First Temple, French seduction, God as Witness, Goethe's Faust, having children, heroine, honeymoon in Rome, idiosyncratic hermeneutics, immortal heroine, imprinting, Jacob and Rachel, Jewish continuity, Jewish girl, Jewish relation to time, Jewish survival, Jewish time, Jewish womanhood, John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale", living through it, living too long, love story, lovers, marital difficulties, marriageable girl, Mount Sinai, Mowgli, newly married, outlasting enemies, outliving one's children, outliving one's husband, outliving one's world, Outliving one’s time, Roman antiquities, Roman conquest, Romance, romantic difficulties, romantic novels, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, seductive formulas, sharing fate, significant other, surviving genocide, taking romance seriously, The Covenant, the eternal feminine, the generations, the human generations, the Jewish essence, the past as present, the romantic essence, the Ur-couples, Ur-stories, wild child, woman's life
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Apologies to Kierkegaard
Apologies to Kierkegaard In a previous post or two of “Dear Abbie,” I found myself sharply critical – denunciatory even – of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). He is the Danish philosopher/theologian who is still studied by serious people today, both inside … Continue reading →
Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, beauty, Biblical God, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Hegel, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, History, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Journalism, Legal Responsibility, Literature, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, Mortality, Mysticism, nineteenth-century, non-violence, novels, Ontology, Oppression, Past and Future, Peace, Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy, Poetry, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, radicalism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, Romanticism, secular, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, victimhood, victims, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged ancestral curse, anthropology, apology, Archiving, Ardor, Australian anthropology, Biographical researchers, biography, Bordello, Change of mind, Cold feet, Condemnations, Cursing God, Danish philosophy, Danish theology, dating, Dead and gone, Dead but not gone, Death and forgetting, Death and loss, Decent husband, Definitive biography, denunciation, embarrassment, Engagement to marry, Exotic, Exploited servant, fallen woman, Family curse, Far away places, Fear of intimacy, Fear of syphilis, Feminine pride, first love, genius, Good wife, Having enough faith, Having more faith, Healthy-minded girls, Hidden agenda, House of ill repute, idealization, idealizing women, imperfect world, Instability, Insufficient faith, intimacy, Joakim Garff's Kierkegaard’s Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen, Joakim Garff’s Kierkegaard A Biography, Kierkegaard biography, Last energies, Letting one down, Lifelong ardor, Loner, Marriage proposal, Masturbation, Merchant class, Mere cleverness, Mind Control, Morbid tangles, Offenses against God, original sin, Paper trail, patriarchy, philosopher, Poor shepherd boy, Pre-marital cold feet, Preserving memories, Prosperous merchant, Protestant culture, Psychic tangles, Regine Olson, Respectable families, Reversed judgment, Reversed opinion, Romantic memory, Running in the red, Second thoughts, Secret heart, self-protection, Sensitive loner, Serious thinker, Shotgun wedding, significant other, Soren Kierkegaard, Soul capture, Spiritual sincerity, Std, Straightforwardness, Sufficient faith, Syphilis, The unseen, theologian, theology, To jilt, Trivializing first love, Truthful, truthfulness, Tying the knot, Unavailable girls, Uneasy conscience, Unforgotten, Unseen witnesses, vulnerability, Whorehouse, Withdrawn condemnation
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“It Is No Secret”
“It Is No Secret” Years ago, when I was first in Jerusalem, I put a note in the Western Wall. “Did you pray at the Wall?” my Israeli cousins asked me, with their native-born, knowing irony. “Of course,” I rejoined. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", academic reinstatement, Analytic philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy, anthropological field work, anthropology, Australia, battle scars, comfort zone, Continental philosophy, cultural relativism, Derek Freeman's "Margaret Mead and Samoa", divine matchmaking, Down Under, downsizing, escapism, fresh start, Herodian Wall, husbands, making a wish, Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa", marital benefits, marriage and divorce, marrying for love, notes in the Wall, objective values, petitionary prayer, pilgrims, problem of evil, prosperity of the wicked, retrenchment, Second Temple, sexual freedom, sexual hangups, significant other, Southern Hemisphere, staff club, subjective relativism, subjective values, suffering of the innocent, talking philosophy, theodicy, tourists, universal conversation, Western Wall, wishlist
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