Tag: Rethinking Awe
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(Repost) The test we are under and the Subconscious Signature (Parts I, II, and III)
The test is not to have our hearts and minds, our conscience, corrupted by an antagonizing government. Just as when we were children and taught to respect other people’s boundaries,...
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An important part on my quest to speak to God, revisited
I did something I never thought I would do again. Though I had deleted these two websites, and before that I had hidden them from online access some time ago...
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Short Memo: (Expanding a repost) – Considerations for Seeing an Unseen God
I miss praying. It was very centering. Very calming. But I now follow a God who has never been seen or written about. Any attempt to create a spoken prayer...
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Reposting: Clarification of a poem
Lots on wordplay in the poem I wrote this morning. I suppose it helps to know that “love-in-idleness” is just another phrase for heartsease, which is a flower, a pansy,...
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Romantic Empathy as a Gateway to Ontological Empathy
The singular source that rejects empathy is possessiveness. The trajectory of selfhood that seeks the lure of possession is without stability or the confines or frail togetherness that bonds the...
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Romantic Awe and the Traces of Deleterious Dispensation
Romantic awe is like stroking your fingers along the inner traces of a sobole clock, so close to recess, so moved as to recoil. Romantic awe is lambast in sheep...
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The Lure of Awe and a Romantic Empathy Approach
Awe in our contemporary struggle is not without corporatism and digression from solitude. As we digress we feel closer to a social order and that feeling brings a sense of...
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What are the Consequences of Romantic Empathy?
Characteristics central to the English Romantic era were beauty and consciousness. To know a thing is to become a thing whereas that idea magnifies and precludes one’s own value of...
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Levinas and the Other
Emmanuel Levinas, in his book, Humanism of the Other (1972), states, in now outdated masculine-universal pronouns,“To suffer by the other is to take care of him, be in his place,...