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The Photographic Negative of the Zeitgeist
On the night of Passover, during the dinner celebrated in commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt, a cup of wine is set on the table for Elijah – the herald of the messianic age – to drink when he stops … Continue reading →
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Tagged absence of Jews from the non-denominational meetings of theologians, antisemitism and the Zeitgeist, antisemitism’s changes with the Zeitgeist, blaming the Jews, Cain and Abel, competing for God’s preference, converting to Judaism, Darwinian racism, Darwinian survival of the fittest, disparaging the Holocaust, Elijah and the messiah, Enlightenment and antisemitism, Exodus from Egypt, fratricide and Biblical history, fratricide begins Biblical history, interreligious discussions without Jews, Israel as ancient Jewish homeland, Israel as majority non-white, Israel’s false accusers, Jews and the Biblical record, Jews and the Zeitgeist, Jews as a people not a race, Jews as empty chair at theological discussion, Jews as negatives of the Zeitgeist, Jews as truthfully recording their history, Jews blamed for crucifixion, Jews defined by their covenant, Jews keep a truthful record, Jews not biologically defined, lying for Elijah, meetings of theologians, mental somersaults of antisemitism, modern and Biblical Israel, Nazi racial definition of Jews, Nazi view of Jews as a race, Passover, resurgence of antisemitism, righteous Gentiles, Romanticism and Jews, Romanticism and Jews as rootless wanderers, sidelining the Holocaust, status of Jews, thanking the Jews, the Holocaust, theologians, theological discussion without Jews, theology, Voltaire and Jews, woke prejudgements, world religions except for Jews
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Reincarnation: Anne Frank and Me
Some years back I read a book with the title, And the Wolves Howled: Fragments of Two Lifetimes. The author was Barbro Karlen, a Swedish woman who claims to be the reincarnation of Anne Frank. Anne was the Jewish Dutch … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank and Reincarnation, Anne Frank commemoration, Barbro Karlen, Barbro Karlen's objectivity, Cain and Abel, combating anti-semitism, commemorating Anne Frank, confirming incidents of past life, credible calumny, defamations believed, emblematic innocence, evidence for reincarnation, evil rationalized, evil remembered, fading past life memories, famous victims, fratricide, global anti-semitism, hidden diary, hiding from Nazis, Holocaust victim, identifying with wrongdoers, innocence and persecution, insight from the afterlife, Karlen's And the Wolves Howled, machinery of evil, Nazism, oldest hatred, optimism, past life memory, past-life and belief, past-life and personal identity, persecution in work situations, persecution of Jews, pro-Nazi betrayal, pseudo-science, reincarnation, reincarnation and personal identity, reincarnation and probative memory, remembering your death, resistance to evil, seeing extensiveness of anti-semitism, status of Jews, sympathy with bad guys, vastness of anti-semitism
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Where’d My World Go?
The world in which I came of age, learned to be a young woman, and entered my chosen academic field of philosophy, did not include provisions for people who hated Jews and wanted them dead. Hitler lost the War – … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, academic bureaucracy, academic freedom, academic limits on free speech, academic norms, academic philosophy, Analytic philosophy, anti-semitism and contemporary culture, becoming a philosopher, chivalry and anti-semitism, choosing a career, civilization and self-defense, civilization’s self-rejection, coming of age, Continental philosophy, crisis points in history, cultural wholeness, Daniel Dennett’s I’ve Been Thinking, dialectic and history, entering academia, evil as objective reality, evil intruding in ordinary lives, FDR saves capitalism, free speech and anti-semitism, free speech and insults, free speech and threats, free speech for me but not for thee, freedom of speech in the academy, gratitude for Jews, Harvard philosophers and anti-semitism, Hegel, Hilary Putnam, Jewish refugees, Jews in academic life, learning womanhood, Merleau-Ponty, modernity and alienation, Mother as unsung hero, Mother captures Nazi spy ring, not looking for trouble, oldest hatred, philosophers open to refutation, philosophers who can fix your flat tire, philosophers you can trust, philosophy and real life situations, publish or perish, quarrel between the analysts and the continentals, quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, reductionism and philosophy, self-hatred projected on the Jews, seventeenth-century, status of Jews, the War against the Jews, unsung hero, woman in academic philosophy, women’s stories
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