Tag Archives: Henry Fuseli

problems of evil

What entered god’s mind when he put the serpent into the Garden of Eden, only he knows, and by now he may well have regretted it, had second thoughts, or perhaps forgot. In any event, it’s too late. But since … Continue reading

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divine wrath

Divine wrath: punish them for their sins. Certainly, they areĀ  being kept on a short leash, and for good reason, some of it tied back to American electoral policy, the other a revolution viewed as too big to fail status, … Continue reading

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calorie counter

What does being a bit of a plumper have to do with the fiery rhetoric and popular rabble-rousing appeal. Is the gist here that Nasrallah has become rotund and contented, succumbing to bourgeois opulence and a Martha Stewart lifestyle. Or … Continue reading

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flight into egypt

When a revolution is not a revolution.The Egyptian debt market is stabilizing, the stock market is on the upswing and the army is making ure that the climate is good for trade. The entire initial cause of the revolution, the … Continue reading

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sandusky: labyrinth of fourth and long

Sandusky is a kind of minotaur who sacrificed human victims. This primal, nihilistic rejection in which nearly everything is lost, shattered, despised, mocked and unrepairable. It suggests the sadism uses and abuses the body as an identification with a nightmarish … Continue reading

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end of narnia

To make theology entertaining. The seven books for children which comprises the Chronicles of Narnia, published between 1950-1956 was a high accomplishment. As “space” was the medium of his trilogy, another common science fiction element, “dimension” is that of the … Continue reading

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bowing your head at the Name

If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition, exalted through the mystery of the … Continue reading

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petworth: painter’s paradise

He was the perfect patron. Lord Egremont’s whims included art and artists, and Turner painted luminous works at Petworth for him. Egremont befriended and encouraged the artist for more than thirty years, from 1809 until Egremont’s death in 1837. Inside … Continue reading

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beam them somewhere

Teleportation. Does it exist? Generally, science and mysticism and the paranormal do not mix. Likewise, atheism and psychic phenomena make strange bedfellows. Superstition and science. But, there is a lot of junk science and pseudo science as there are a … Continue reading

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temporal : foul fiend and friends

In Christian thought, the evil one has power only upon this earth, and only for a time. It is strange, therefore, to look at heaven through Eastern eyes and to see it filled with the apparitions of terror, ferocity and … Continue reading

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