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darwin: throwing the dice at blind chance

…To some, the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s links with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cutt … Continue reading

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it’s a guy thing

True believers. un-believers. Mis-believers. Its a bizarre love triangle for Pat Robertson and he is media savvy enough to play the cards right every time and drawing the awaited reaction, the wailing and moral lamentations from secular religious liberals of … Continue reading

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and in this corner….in praise of damnation

The 700 Club. Its a great publicity stunt by Pat Robertson to get attention,to revive the flagging brand, albeit it caves in, craters to the path of least resistance which is Muslim bashing and the scenario of Sam Huntington’s Clash … Continue reading

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CARE & FEEDING OF CHAOS MONSTERS

There is a picnic at Armageddon.If you go, wear flowers in your hair. Along with Antichrist, Gog and Magog passed into the world view of medieval Christendom. And they also emerged, more and more clearly, as a new version of … Continue reading

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RECURRENCE OF AN IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE

Its the presence of the body in a state of decomposition, as locale of transgression that places the tropical tragedy of Haiti at the center of an imaginary contemporary world; marked by its upright and righteous treatment of the human … Continue reading

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MYSTICS LEFT STANDING AT THE ALTAR

What Allen Ginsberg would call jawboning over the ”cosmic ferocious” , an unlikely but fortuitous lunch with Jeremy Bentham( 1748-1832) and Franz Kafka over one of Ginsberg’s celebrated ”reality sandwiches”; perhaps Kosher deli-style with the pickle with the King of … Continue reading

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INTO THE MYSTIC WITH THE SOLITARY WANDERERS

”I laugh at the plots hatched by men,” he declared, ”and I enjoy my own being in spite of them.” He died soon after writing these lines, at Ermenonville, north of Paris, where he was staying as the guest of … Continue reading

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THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT

Avoid inhaling demons.Read the warning label first. The package looked interesting. It read ”Daydream with the Devil. attention. contents highly flammable. handle with caution. verify peremption date. recycle with Lucifer. Save nature.” He saw in his fame only a new … Continue reading

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THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

O.K. its a deal the devil said…Just put your John Doe on the dotted line.Obviously, God was far too unreasonable to deal  with,  too intractable and demanding, pushing the faithful into the arms of the Devil for whom there is … Continue reading

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CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION

”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter … Continue reading

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