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copernicus: earth as the lord’s moving footstool
The continuing saga of Copernicus and displacing the earth from the center of the universe. Of, course man was displaced as well, now an orbiting refugee and the light moral relativism found its way through the cracks in the foundation… … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andreas Osiander, Copernican revolution, Copernicus, Erasmus Reinhold, Fleetwood Mac World Turning, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Nicholas Copernicus, Ptolemy, Samuel Bak, Tycho Brahe, William Blake
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fanon: accidental revolutionary
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience still listens.Vintage violence… …At this point, Fanon could go no further, because, although he had discarded the white mask in his book,in his life he still wore it. … Continue reading
Promise them anything
…but give them a propadeutic scenario…. Bird’s guts, crystal balls, the stars in the heavens, tea leaves- individuals have resorted to all of these and more in an effort to foretel the future. Today, the seer’s tools are charts, statistics, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alvin Toffler, Anthony J. Wiener, Antonin Artaud, Futurology, Herman Kahn, Jean Paul Sartre, John William Waterhouse, Joseph L. Fisher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malthus, Marquis de Condorcet, Max Beckmann, Max Beckmann falling man, peter drucker, William Blake
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twisting and shouting: father of singing poetry
A lot of shouting. Vachel Lindsay was certainly no Longfellow, no Whittier. What was the fellow trying to prove anyway? Lindsay could have told them. He thought of himself as an artistic originator whose “New Poetry” would, in short order, … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, Hazelton Spencer, Joel Spingarn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pete Seeger, T.R. Hummer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vachel Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay Congo, William Blake, Woody Guthrie
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trial by hurry: trying to nail the truth
The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? By a strange irony of history, the surest thing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Crucifixion of Jesus, Flavius Josephus, Histories of Tacitus, James Cameron, James Charlesworth, James tabor, Jesus of Nazareth, Jewish Revolt 70 A.D., Josephus the Jewish War, Prof. James Charlesworth, Simcha Jacobovici, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Gospel of Mark, Tomb of Caiaphas, Trial of Jesus, William Blake
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one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter
Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir
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cave of tiberius: great grotto its got fragments
The cave of Tiberius. Twelve thousand fragments in an Emperor’s sculpture gallery made a jigsaw puzzle for archaeologists. 1957. With every scoop of the shovel, the archaeologists became more certain that they had located what had once been the gallery … Continue reading
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Tagged Athanodoros, Cave of Tiberius, Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Cherubim of Solomon's Temple, Emperor Tiberius, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, Hagesandros, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margarete Bieber, Michelangelo, Pliny Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Polydoros, The Laocoon group, Tiberius Caesar, Vatican Museum, William Blake
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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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