Making Poverty History |
Hello friends. An enormous level of poverty exists in the world and it does not have to. As I remember Bono saying once - to paraphrase - this is our problem now, our civilization's problem. The histo...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:18:00 PST |
The Couple Overfloweth |
The Couple Overfloweth
We sometimes go on as though people can't express themselves. In fact they're always expressing themselves. The sorriest couples are those where the woman can't be preocc...
Posted by Richard on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:02:00 PST |
Going Nude: shame, fascination, the dialectic, and why it isnt a purely cognitive battle |
Going Nude: shame, fascination, the dialectic, and why it isn't a purely cognitive battle
Usually, we do not go nude in front of others, showing our birthday-suit in all of its naked glory. Because it...
Posted by Richard on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:06:00 PST |
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer |
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything tha...
Posted by Richard on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:52:00 PST |
Paul Virilio - Technologys accidents |
When the railroad was invented, so was derailment. Then there were people like me who said right away that they didn’t care if trains were great and went faster than stagecoaches. What was more ...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:48:00 PST |
What is thinking? - Heidegger and Hoelderlin |
In his lectures during the early 1950’s, "What is Called Thinking?", Heidegger wants his students to learn what is most thought-provoking in our time: that we are still not thinking. What must b...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:11:00 PST |
The Phantom Lover |
The phantom limb. This aparrently odd and fantastic occurence has been the fodder of many psychological and physiological theories and has also been their bane since both have failed miserably to expl...
Posted by Richard on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:04:00 PST |
Da ich ein Knabe war |
'When I was a boy'
When I was a boyA god often rescued meFrom the shouts and the rods of menAnd I played among trees and flowersSecure in their kindnessAnd the breezes of heavenWere playing there too....
Posted by Richard on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:31:00 PST |
Ice breakers for next time you see me. Read, reflect and say. |
And now for three nearly random and poignant recitatals:
i.) "No philosopher was ever more worthy, but neither was any philosopher more maligned and hated. To grasp the reason for that it is not enoug...
Posted by Richard on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:58:00 PST |
