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Truth & consequences
07.16.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Truth & consequencesReplies the Happy Tutor: Take the 25 years that this discussion has preoccupied the humanities. During that time the PC was invented, the Internet came alive, the human genome was mapped, and our posterity sold. Whatever concept of truth those folks are using is not God, but good enough for practical purposes. The payoff in […]
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The ancient worldview (1 of 5)
07.15.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on The ancient worldview (1 of 5)“This is the worldview reflected in the Bible. In this conception, everything earthly has its heavenly counterpart, and everything heavenly has its earthly counterpart. If war begins on earth, then there must be, at the same time, war in heaven between the angels of the nations in the heavenly council. Likewise, events initiated in heaven […]
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Of “Truth” and idols, in the theological sense
07.15.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTo AKMA and the Happy Tutor: How is “Truth” not the talisman used by philosophers to ward off the troublesome incongruities of polytheism? For me, the question has long been theological: does god need “Truth”? What use does the Trickster Yhwh have for “Truth”? What use is “Truth” to the all-loving god? Does “Truth” protect […]
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Rummy dreams
07.14.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Rummy dreamsThe other night I dreamt that Donald Rumsfeld had started working with me. He was being an asshat. As is the custom in our small office, I first went to a colleague to make sure I wasn’t way out in left field (no pun intended). She suggested I confront him. So I did. I walked […]
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A day in the life of the Arby’s Oven Mitt
07.14.03 | Permalink | 41 CommentsThis week the Arby’s Oven Mitt learns that he doesn’t have a nose. Panic ensues. Upon looking in the mirror to behold the horror that is his nose-less face, he discovers that he has no ears. Panic ensues (again). Poor Arby’s Oven Mitt.
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Religion & social hope
Been reading Richard Rorty’s Philosophy & Social Hope, a collection of essays wherein he argues that belief is a habit of action. (Not too different from Foucault’s assertion that thought is the form of action.) The trick here is American pragmatism’s assertion that there is no inherent correct or incorrect: there is only correct and […]
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