brilliant essays about "man's search for meaning"

[Rit]

whoop whoop, yeah, mos def.

the Hebraic inheritance and the Hellenic inheritance has kept Western culture diametrically opposed in its deepest sense.

I love that whole chapter on Homer vs Plato. the explications, the contest of wills, and the quest for supremacy in the central place of the Greek mindset.

read on, ma soeur!

[sisyphus]

well, i've finished The American Religon and am about an hour away from finishing Where Shall Wisdom Be Found. I'll be spurting some reviews soon, RIT.

[Rit]

It seems you can treat the world with as much sensitivity as you're capable of, and it doesn't really matter one way or another.

Success governs and dictates everything else.

The most meaningful differences in the world are also the most minute and tiniest of differences between things. It is they that govern this world. The large obvious differences between things are irrelevant, misdirected observations which play themselves out in an outer circle and keep the rabble happy.

[JACkory]

kenholzman said:

I am more inclined to think that it is exhausting to believe that there is no "divine," no higher power to appeal to or take comfort in. As a person gets older, I submit to you that they are more and more likely to grow tired of that burden, of the uncertainty of life, and so are more inclined to give religious claims some creedence. So the (apparent) correspondence between depth in philosophy and religion is really a matter of older philosophers simply covering their asses, hoping that maybe it's true..

If your submission held water you'd think that the churches would be crowded with a bunch of old foagies, that the vast preponderance of professing Christians would be the geriatric set.
Such, however, is not the case.

[sisyphus]

if you're a fan of rilke, check this out: ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8779p1x3/