Starbucks on Saturday morning, the first day of Memorial Day weekend. Sunshine is rapturous… I sometimes catch myself in a fit of imagination wondering what it must have been like to live in the Athens of Greece during the reign of Pericles, the golden age of Athenian democracy. Radical idealists of all stripes are…
There was only one norm, man; and every people thought that it possessed this one ultimate norm. But above and outside, in some distant over-world, one was permitted to behold a plurality of norms; one god was not considered a denial of another god, nor blasphemy against him. It was here that the luxury…
“Sin” is a word seldom mentioned, rarely heard now-a-days. The emotion of shame though is all too prevalent. Is it universal to have hidden anxiety that one fails to be “good enough?” No matter the surface appearance due to education, social status, etc., it’s not unusual to wonder if one is a failure. Why…
Wednesday, midweek and I am running on fumes. What is my body, the universe saying to me? That I should care less about my disagreements with others, those niggling, aggravating differences, when heard, I am loathe to offer any reply. A podcast is a way to gain information in a format that is part…
A dangerous resolve— The Christian resolve to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. –excerpt The Gay Science, Book 3, Section 130 by Friedrich Nietzsche Against Christianity— What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. –excerpt The Gay Science, Book 3, Section 133 by Friedrich…
The value of prayer— Prayer has been invented for those people who really never have thoughts of their own and who do not know any elevation of the soul or at least do not notice it when it occurs… To keep them at least from disturbing others, the wisdom of all founders of religions,…
The madman— Have you not heard of that madman Who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!” –As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got…
In the horizon of the infinite – We have left the land and have embarked. We have burned our bridges behind us –indeed, we have gone farther and destroyed the land behind us. Now, little ship, look out! Beside you is the ocean: to be sure, it does not always…
Is it virtuous when a cell transforms itself into a function of a stronger cell? It has no alternative. And is it evil when the stronger cell assimilates the weaker? It also has no alternative; it follows necessity, for it strives for super- abundant substitutes and wants to regenerate itself. Hence we should make…
I think of my grandfather of late. He raised a family of five daughters, one son, tending a few acres of land in Johnson Country, North Carolina. My mother once mentioned how happy he felt upon purchasing his first tractor. He no longer had to walk behind a mule, in order to plow a…
