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Category Archives: history
From Church to University
Don’t forget: churches are older than universities. Churches worshipped the God, formed monasteries to keep and copy holy writ, perpetuating and rationalizing the mis-copyings, there being no original manuscript to correct from (who knows if there ever had been, the … Continue reading
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Jefferson, Lincoln
In a word: Jefferson, author of the US Declaration of Independence, argued for the right of a people to change governments, to secede, if they weren’t free, happy, healthy, prosperous under the old one. (Jefferson, Albert J. Nock’s bio is … Continue reading
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Vulgar Latin
As an upperclassman, English major, I heard wickedly raunchy poetry from major stars of the firmament, Swift, for example, that were not on the reading list. Only select students had the recesses of the Complete Poems indicated to them. Still … Continue reading
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Hitler Scrapbook
K. mentioned Hitler. (Who doesn’t?) I’m reconstructing K. the best I can after the US destroyed it (actually, and me, almost). Some Hitler points I’ll repeat, some make for the first time: online anyway. When I was a kid Hitler … Continue reading
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Did Jesus Write Shakespeare?
No. Of course not. But media, journalism, rumor are full of similarly preposterous contentions: have been for centuries (if not for much longer). I’ve always believed that there was an historical Jesus somewhere behind all the myth, but I’d been … Continue reading
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The Historical Jesus
My son, bk, just emailed me about a new Bart Ehrman book, Did Jesus Exist?. I insert the letter and will comment further below: Bart Ehrman is used to being on the skeptical side of biblical and scriptural debates, but … Continue reading
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The Passion According to Mel
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Religion / Christianity / Passion movie / Mission: to crucify euphemism, to indict society’s inability to depict truth I began this module before … Continue reading
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Tagged religion, religion christianity, social epistemology, state terror
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Anthropollywood
Anthropological Cinema Saw A Man Called Horse, 1970, last night. Not Jan’s kind of movie, but mine for sure. I’ve been big on cultural variety, superstition, magic … since Lionel Trilling assigned us Sir James Fraser’s The Golden Bough (when … Continue reading
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Bacon Bribe
An honored memory from college visited me this morning: for the first time I can recall in decades. Francis Bacon was a smart guy, some people, not entirely fools, thought he may have written “Shakespeare.” What he did write was … Continue reading
Invasion Minimum
I highly recommend Bill Bryson’s At Home: A Short History of Private Life. My reading remained eager throughout and now I’m still reading it aloud to my beloved Jan. This morning a bit of cud regurgitated for further processing: Speaking … Continue reading
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