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Of life, laughter and liturgy . . .: Come to today&s fête à ...

lozineme wrote 2 weeks ago: Of life, laughter and liturgy . . .: Come to today&s fête à … Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT … more →

Tags: voltaire, balzac, Marivaux, Rousseau, Stendhal

8 May 2009: Hobby Counting for Meditative Gain

youngdayofalldays wrote 2 months ago: In the time that the green Heineken bottle took to return to it’s natural sandy state, the gr … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Sand, Non-Competitive and Timeless Counting Exercizes

All Our Best on May Day

herrdramaturg wrote 2 months ago: … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Robust Assertions, Augustine of Hippo, hazlitt, Hegel, Justice, Rousseau, The Wealth of Nations, Trotsky

In Defense of Blasphemy6 comments

Tauriq Moosa wrote 3 months ago: This is a transcript of a talk I gave on the 17 March 2009, at the University of Cape Town. This is … more →

Tags: Reason, Atheist and Agnostic Society, blasphemy, Daniel Dennett, Freedom of Speech, JM Coetzee, Religion, sax appeal, UCT

10 March 2009: The End to Our Tale Starts the Hardest Revenge

youngdayofalldays wrote 4 months ago: Mr. Wolf’s dissolution came as no surprise.  He had been through all of this many times befor … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Mr. Wolf, The Coin that is not a Coin, The Hardest Revenge

Absolute Certainty2 comments

Ron Pavellas wrote 4 months ago: My father was a student of history. When I was in my ‘teen years he often regaled me with tale … more →

Tags: Books and Literature, History, Committee of Public Safety, Francisco Rebolledo, french enlightenment, French Revolution of 1789, King Louis XVI, Madame de Pompadour, marie-antoinette

Philosophical Conversions.6 comments

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 4 months ago: I wonder if someone already wrote a book about it, but it would be nice to collect all the stories o … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Rousseau, Philosophical Conversions

Home cinema speaker stand manufacture

paidia wrote 5 months ago: I like to resist the market, but often I fail utterly. At the weekend I made some stands for the sur … more →

Tags: consuming life, Market, Résistance, craft consumer

Jean Meslier : Virtual Priest, Real Atheist

nitwitnastik wrote 5 months ago: Recently I finished reading an article about a prolific 17th Century Catholic priest named Jean Mesl … more →

Tags: Religion, Christianity, Atheism and Theism, Christian, Biography, Bible, Atheism, atheist, Nitwit Nastik

30 December 2008: After Diderot Put the Lid on the Box and Taped it Tight and Wrote "2008" on it, He put it up on the Shelf with all the Rest.1 comment

youngdayofalldays wrote 6 months ago: Diderot’s archive spanned centuries.  A good way to spend a rainy afternoon would be to choos … more →

Tags: Blogroll, the archive, 2008

15 December 2008: From Diderot's Catalog

youngdayofalldays wrote 7 months ago: It was his comment that caused such a stir.  The phrase was so out of character for Aurelius that a … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Memory, aurelius, Marcosius, defining [absurd] personal moments of tragedy/comedy {r

Report from Guam Island

herrdramaturg wrote 7 months ago: Dear Reader, We have been having a ball reading in Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary, the two volumes … more →

Tags: Inanities, Correspondence, A Seat On The Aisle, Pudenda Studies, Guam Island, Spinoza, goethe, Dr Johnson

Jouissance

J.C. wrote 7 months ago: Be quiet unhappy man, and consider that pleasure pulled you out of nothingness Jouissance (Enjoyment … more →

Tags: Books, Resources, PhD, Research, Jouissance, enjoyment, encyclopedia

Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers

Bogdan Nemes wrote 8 months ago: Title : Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des MetiersAuthor : D. Dide … more →

Tags: 18th Century, Encyclopedias, old books, carti vechi, bibliofilie, ENCICLOPEDIE, encyclopedia, DALEMBERT, raisonne

Foundations of Modern Science

ScientistForTruth wrote 8 months ago: In this and future posts we will show that the rise of modern science was entirely reliant on Christ … more →

Tags: Atheism, Bible, Carl Sagan, Chinese, Christian Theology, enlightenment, Gibbon, image of God, Islam

Well, What About Opera?3 comments

herrdramaturg wrote 8 months ago: Didn’t you think about this all summer long on Long Island, and didn’t you let your hai … more →

Tags: Correspondence, Inanities, Recommendations, Robust Assertions, Ulan Blator, voltaire, Trotsky, Siberia, Soviet Civil War

15 October 2008: Sometimes you Just Need to Pick one and Then you Feel Better

youngdayofalldays wrote 9 months ago: Diderot wrote pages and pages and pages.  And he was only one of the many page writers.  Some peopl … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Fun with Poll/ Poll fun

Wikipedia's illusion6 comments

stetoscope wrote 10 months ago: Wikipedia, like every encylclopedia is based on an illusion. What does encyclopedia promise? A plac … more →

Tags: Analysis, Wikipedia, knowledge, Illusion, encylopedists, consensus

The Troika of Old Men1 comment

herrdramaturg wrote 1 year ago: We have been thinking about drama, history, and literature. October. Independence Day. Bastille Day … more →

Tags: Recommendations, Inanities, Correspondence, DALEMBERT, Holbach


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