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Symposium–Satan, the blood is against you
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Symposium–Tell the devil I changed my mind
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking revelatory, psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas […]
Batman Zero Year: Secret America
“Because at the end of the day, what people are afraid of is the nothing of it. The randomness. The empty center. Stare into it and try to find meaning. You’ll go mad. All you can do is fear, and survive. It’s the truth.” ~Red Hood “But it’s a new kind of crime this gang […]
Oedipus Ordeal: Defy Truth or Abandon Injustice
“He shall be found at once brother and father of the children with whom he consorts; son and husband of the woman who bore him; heir to his father’s bed, shedder of his father’s blood.” ~ Teiresias, the blind prophet, Oedipus Rex “Given time, you’ll see this well, I know: you do yourself no good, […]
On Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. ~ Dostoyevsky Biography of Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821–9 February 1881), was a Russian novelist, polemicist, philosopher, […]
Picasso: psychotic pervert or iconic genius?
Art is a lie that tells the truth. I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ~ Picasso Prologue to Picasso: Psychotic or Iconic? On my Facebook page last week I poised a series of perhaps rhetorical questions regarding the Spanish-French painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). I asked: “Is Picasso a great artistic genius […]
The Old Man, America, and the Sea of Iraq
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it […]
The Molech paradigm
God commanded the Israelites that they were not to sacrifice any of their children to Molech: “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. …” Sacrificing to the Phoenician god Molech (king) was a popular […]
Symposium–He loved me enough to be late
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens, who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then […]
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