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- April 7th, 2005, 11:22 am
- Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
- Topic: The Pope's Postmodern Death
- Replies: 7
- Views: 824
I don't recall that. I have read some decent arguments from "intelligent design," but I don't think a design argument, even if were plausible, leads to any particular religion. Scripture or religious texts are not infallible. Moreover I do not think, e-canis, there are good grounds for a soul or imm...
- April 6th, 2005, 9:28 pm
- Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
- Topic: makes me want to puke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 580
- April 6th, 2005, 8:33 pm
- Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
- Topic: makes me want to puke
- Replies: 5
- Views: 580
- April 6th, 2005, 5:28 pm
- Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
- Topic: The Pope's Postmodern Death
- Replies: 7
- Views: 824
John Paul II does seem to have been a very decent, ethical, and erudite man. He spoke numerous languages, and was, as the obituary writers say, "an avid sportsman." He combatted the nazis and later the stalinists: and having read some wartime journals of poles, it is quite apparent that the catholic...
- April 5th, 2005, 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Anti-Academy
- Topic: The Pope's Postmodern Death
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2476
It is not blasphemous to, say, argue that the body of El Papa be used to feed starving animals ( or children): what is blasphemous is the Catholic corpse fetish (protestants also prone to it as well), where a piece of immaculately dressed hamburger is thought to have some magic power. Mandatory crem...
- April 4th, 2005, 11:23 pm
- Forum: Literature & Film
- Topic: Walter Benjamin, Marxist literary theologian
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1170
I don't really know how one assesses philosophers any more. Having read some excerpts of Benjamin online, it appears he's sort of an existentialist as well as marxist, and since there are numerous problems with either of those "camps" I would tend to disagree with his programme. Isn't there sort of ...
- April 4th, 2005, 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Creativity...Is it limited to a few?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 986
- April 4th, 2005, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Literature & Film
- Topic: Walter Benjamin, Marxist literary theologian
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1170
- April 3rd, 2005, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Literature & Film
- Topic: Robert Creeley
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1272
Though not a poet, I have savored a few of Creeley's syntactical pirouettes, and I would dare yawp that he is as authentic a scribe ever hatched by ahht school-incubation.....somewhere between Pound and zen and WC Williams perhaps, with some decent beat fuckspeak in spots, Creeley was also no slouch...
- March 30th, 2005, 8:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moved from a Creative Writing thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1023
- March 30th, 2005, 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moved from a Creative Writing thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1023
Perhaps, e-canis, yet I'd have rather hung with some pompous and somewhat apolitical romantics such as Coleridge, Nietzsche or EP than with marcel duchamp and Co., or later the great ginzo, dylan etc........................but at yr age i prolly would have yawped the same........im younger than that...
- March 30th, 2005, 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moved from a Creative Writing thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1023
Not that I really care, since I'm not poet and my own view of poesy is that it was buried with little ceremony circa 1918 in a stack of rat-eaten french and german corpses outside of the Verdun battlements, but simply eradicating some posts from a thread because one person found them distasteful, th...
- March 29th, 2005, 3:40 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: One Of My Teenage Journal entries...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 430
- March 29th, 2005, 3:09 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: visions of shirley
- Replies: 1
- Views: 289
visions of shirley
they find you swinging clara-petaci style nude from like some oil derrick on fantasy island on your pert breasts of alabaster in blood: LINKLETTER, ART but Art had an airtight lullaby warrant on Laverne titanic in her apostasy-- (it's a dream of a demon a gun at your head sayin' not yr night, champ)
- March 29th, 2005, 3:02 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: 20 for the spring equinox
- Replies: 4
- Views: 631