A small circle

Toute prise de conscience est-elle libératrice ?

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:22:59 GMT

It is one of the proposed philosophy subjects for the French Baccalaureate exam this year: more >

Does Man deserve to be saved?

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:38:26 GMT

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My God’s better than your God…

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:09:33 GMT

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Black and White in Color

Sat, 5 Aug 2006 16:58:25 GMT

Thirty spokes are made only by holes in hub

By vacancies joining them for a wheel's use;

The use of clay in moulding pitchers

Comes from the hollow of its absence;

Doors, windows, in a house,

Are used for their emptiness:

Thus we are helped by what is not

To use what is.

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To Live is to War with Trolls...

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 04:07:23 GMT

To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgment on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

The interest of a writer and the interests of his readers are never the same and if, on occasion, they happen to coincide, this is a lucky accident.

W. H. Auden
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War Games

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:53:29 GMT

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Dharma

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:38:18 GMT

...launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau
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The Law of Attraction?

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:06:47 GMT

"Moreover, though this is so,

flowers fall when we cling to them,

and weeds only grow when we dislike them."

Dogen (1200-1253), Shobogenzo

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The Wørd

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:21:28 GMT

On "The Wrd," a regular feature of his program, "The Colbert Report" (pronounced coal-BEAR re-PORE, with silent T's), broadcasted on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert regularly parodies the kind of anti-intellectual populism typical of such programs as the Bill O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel.
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Where is Abel thy brother?

Mon, 3 Jul 2006 01:48:24 GMT

Picture 1 (left) is from a DVD cover of Godfrey Reggios 1988 movie, Powaqattsi. Powaqattsi is a Hopi Indian conjunctive from the word Powaqa, which refers to a negative sorcerer who lives at the expense of others, and Qatsi - i.e., life.

Picture 2 (right) is Wayne Fortes acrylic on paper Cain and Abel IV '89 - 80 x 50.

After Cain had murdered his brother Abel, God asked him, "Where is Abel thy brother?" Cain answered, "I know not; am I my brother's keeper?" Cain's words have come to symbolize people's unwillingness to accept responsibility for the welfare of their fellows - their "brothers" in the extended sense of the term. The tradition of Judaism and Christianity (the "Good Samaritan," "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and "Love your enemies") is that people do have this responsibility.

Commentators of old, those who searched through the Bible for allegorical content, saw in the two figures of Can and Abel only one person, only one entity in conflict with itself. It is the first schizophrenia of humanity. It refuses a part of itself.
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