tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post6325785180272466399..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: INVINCIBLY IGNORANTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-18575783336164192892016-12-06T03:10:40.877-05:002016-12-06T03:10:40.877-05:00Echoing Chris, I'd love to hear it too.
I rea...Echoing Chris, I'd love to hear it too.<br /><br />I read once that Marx, in times of stress - particularly when his painful boils were getting the best of him, <br />would read Laplace Transforms in French! Another very bright philosopher, in times of great political disappointment,<br />turns to the exacting NYT's crossword puzzles. I, of lower caliber, watch Hitchens on YouTube, inveigh against theism. I love how he just devours his God fearing opponents.<br /><br />I have also wondered how you, an atheist, seemed not only to be moved by the bible, but even mesmerized. Pray tell.<br /><br />Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-83208607242527715782016-12-05T17:41:02.017-05:002016-12-05T17:41:02.017-05:00http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/09/horseshoe-...http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/09/horseshoe-luck/DDAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563878282038308662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-82886567377642790232016-12-05T17:40:27.663-05:002016-12-05T17:40:27.663-05:00It seems very sane to be moved by something which ...It seems very sane to be moved by something which has moved so many other people and which probably were written with the express purpose of moving (and converting) readers and those who listened to it being read.<br /><br />The Marseillaise moves me, the Internationale moves me, Rule Britannia moves me, God Bless America moves me: they were all composed to move people and they work. As I get older, I give up pretending not to have normal emotional responses to all the stuff that I used to pretend not to be moved by and even convinced myself I was not moved by: from stupid (and sexist) romantic love songs to patriotic anthems to the Bible, but that does not mean that I'm going to be moved by them to march off to war or convert to some childish religious dogma or to fall in love with a stranger across an enchanted room. s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-59074006216927716972016-12-05T17:22:14.876-05:002016-12-05T17:22:14.876-05:00Although I don't have your level of education,...Although I don't have your level of education, I agree with you about religion, politics, and economics. As Chris said, I would love to hear it.Hatchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-62127368488389550402016-12-05T16:11:51.949-05:002016-12-05T16:11:51.949-05:00Ahh! "Hear" not "here" in lin...Ahh! "Hear" not "here" in line two.Jim Westrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11523640492416820740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-44718481466275086382016-12-05T16:11:05.140-05:002016-12-05T16:11:05.140-05:00I have recommended Jose Saramago (the Portugese wr...I have recommended Jose Saramago (the Portugese writer and Nobel Laureate) before but I am going to do it again because I here a similarity in Saramago's voice and yours quite a bit. Saramago's "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" is something I think you would really enjoy. It is a fairly serious retelling of the Gospels using fairly accurate historical detail (as others have done)fused with Saramago's logical but chatty style and his own recasting of the central plot devices and struggles between Jesus, God, and the Devil. Jesus makes different decisions and thus the book was condemned by the Catholic Church and manyin Portugal but the book contains one of the most moving accounts of the birth of Jesus.<br /><br />He also retells a good deal of the Old Testament in Cain but that is more comic and shorter. Some of the same themes are there (I won't spoil it). Jim Westrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11523640492416820740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-1961813679576176282016-12-05T15:07:32.946-05:002016-12-05T15:07:32.946-05:00Personally, I'd love to hear it.Personally, I'd love to hear it.<br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-84287410649140231772016-12-05T15:03:59.815-05:002016-12-05T15:03:59.815-05:00It would be an interesting challenge, but it would...It would be an interesting challenge, but it would not be so much a defense as an explanation. It might be interesting.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-6057879536353298502016-12-05T14:55:13.738-05:002016-12-05T14:55:13.738-05:00Future blog post? You've defended your anarchi...Future blog post? You've defended your anarchism, marxism, voting habits, views of kant, and much more on this blog. But for the past almost decade I've been reading the blog, I can't even recall you defending your atheism.<br />Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-46715615799277551252016-12-05T14:15:43.608-05:002016-12-05T14:15:43.608-05:00That sounds like a remake of the movie The Final I...That sounds like a remake of the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquiry_(1986_film)" rel="nofollow">The Final Inquiry</a>. Oddly enough, Harvey Keitel was in the original, but there was also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquiry_(2006_film)" rel="nofollow">remake</a> a number of years ago that had both Max Von Sydow and Dolph Lundgren.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com