To forgive is to set someone free and then find out it’s you. To not forgive is to let someone rent free space in your head. Why let the wrong they did determine your joy? Revenge doesn’t work. Tweeted by Rob Bell On January 7th, 2011 Painting by cattoo
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Europe According to The Vatican
Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Criticism
[Walter Benjamin’s]…idea is that criticism does not stand outside the work of art, but stands alongside, maybe even inside, the work of art, participating in the work in order to further express and tease out what the artist already put there. In this theory of criticism, we don’t need the critic to tell us what…
Richard Kerney & Paul Ricoeur Explain the Metamorphic Potential of Metaphore
Ricoeur’s analysis of imagination’s role of the metaphorical play of language leads him to the ontological paradox of creation-as-discovery. ‘Through the recovery of the capacity of language to create and recreate, we discover reality itself in the process of being created…Language in the making celebrates reality in the making.’ Ricoeur can thus conclude that ‘the…
A Poem of The Most Profane Sort
The old woman tilted her head like a cat who had just heard cellophane crinkle. It was almost as if she could hear something that I could not. “I would rather not speak at all than to speak words doomed to immanent ignorance,” she croaked. I had hardly begun my reply when, after following the…
How to Be Happy(?)
The Tetrapharmakos, or, “The four-part cure,” is the Greek philosopher Epicurus’ remedy for leading the happiest possible life. The “tetrapharmakos” was originally a compound of four drugs (wax, tallow, pitch and resin); the word has been used metaphorically by Epicurus and his disciples to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul. The Four-Part…
Christianity as a ‘slave-morality’
The best individual, as conceived by Aristotle, is a very different person from the Christan saint. He should have proper pride, and not underestimate his own merits. He should despise whoever deserves to be despised. The description of the proud or magnanimous man is very interesting as showing the difference between pagan and Christian ethics,…
Neitzsche aka Freddy The ‘Stache’
Poster via dead-philosophers.com
Incarnation Zine–Happy Christmas!!
This year I decided to go homemade again as far as Christmas gifts are concerned. I wrote a poem and then my wife and I teamed up to create 10 little pen and ink illustrations. The poem is below, enjoy! Incarnation The beauty of night The stillness enshrine Small, humble and weak Expressed Logos Divine…
When our dull wits had so declined
“The Invisible Seen” When our dull wits had so declined as to set us mid the squalor of the merely sensible creation, the Very God consented to become a body of His own, that He as one among us might gather our dim senses to Himself, and manifest through such incommensurate occasion that He is…