can be found in marriage. This speech, which will have to act as your lecture this week and last, is the best one I have heard in a very long time. Had I all the time in the world, I would do my best to relate it to several other topics, including the life and…
DetailsTHIS!: This post may offend some readers. But only because it’s going to cut close to the bone for many. And I don’t care if I sound old-fashioned, because actually it’s nothing to do with ‘fashion’ or ‘generation’. It’s got everything to do with basic good manners and respect for other people. So here goes……
Detailsare natural bugs of our existence. Whether the apple symbolizes self-awareness, egoism, technology, or the will to dominate, it is now integral to what humanity is. None of us are free of these burdens, and the direction life takes can be partially determined by our tendencies. This column is similar to something I have long…
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A story about St. Thomas Aquinas is said to sum up his disposition, faith, and saintliness. Being such an eminent and careful philosopher even in his own day, many of Aquinas’ peers were amazed at his trusting nature. And what is more fun than tricking someone who is smarter than you? So they schemed. When…
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On Monday, police in Phoenix, Arizona, announced that they’ve arrested a homeless ex-convict for the June 11 murder of a Catholic priest, Rev. Kenneth Walker, and the beating of his colleague, Rev. Joseph Terra. The accused, 54-year-old Gary Michael Moran, has already spent at least eight years in jail for aggravated assault with a deadly…
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at least, the anti-Christianity of Nietzsche, is more similar than most Christians and Nietzscheans like to admit. This thought struck me as I read Listen Little Man, by Wilhelm Reich, and a recent Ethika Politika column makes the same point about our call to be fully human and fully alive… Nietzsche famously wrote that the…
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