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What do you require of me?
06.04.03 | Permalink | 13 CommentsThe Happy Tutor has an excellent post imagining global civil society circa 2015. It’s said that where empires have subjects, states have citizens. Nevertheless, Foucault argues that the state still makes heavy demands on its citizen-subjects. These often unspoken obligations include: to live (in as close to full health as possible) to work productively (so […]
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On the choice of a personal canon
06.04.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsInclude in your personal canon all texts –books, poems, films, music, art, etc.– in which you have experienced the sacred. (Don’t include those you merely liked or found meaninful, or you’ll end up with the world’s longest list.) They do not need to be what you’d traditionally consider religious texts. It’s okay to include fragments […]
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How can we know god?
06.03.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsMost formal god-talks have a chapter or two up front dealing with the question of how it is that we could come to know anything at all about god. More to the point, they lay out which ways of god-knowing are correct and which are incorrect. (Theology tip: if you can throw out your opponent’s […]
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Why “god” and “God™?”
06.02.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsNext time you run into the village atheist, ask him which “God” he doesn’t believe in. Invariably, he will go on to describe “the Man upstairs” or some other version of “Evil Santa Claus.” Or as sung by the cast of Futurama: He knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you’re on the can, […]
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Cynicism update: Be more like ‘American Idol’
06.02.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Cynicism update: Be more like ‘American Idol’Martha Paskoff at The American Prospect wonders if the recent voting habits of 24 million American Idol fans topples the conventional wisdom on why young Americans don’t vote. In brief, American media should be more like Simon Cowell. At length, Paskoff writes: Another popular theory holds that young Americans are turned off by the negative […]
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