by cutsinger | Jun 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
I can see you’re getting in the swing of your upcoming studies already! Your diagnosis—and perhaps prognosis—concerning the “bright agnostics” I encounter in my honors seminars is for the most part right on target, and you’re right in thinking...
by cutsinger | Jun 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yes indeed, reading and listening to lectures can take a person only so far. Do you know the Tibetan parable? A lame man and a blind man are both attempting to make their way to the holy city of Lhasa, which stands in this case for the Western Paradise of...
by cutsinger | Jun 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Having taken note of your posts from our “Faith, Doubt, and God” course, I thought I might jot you two a joint reply, for your comments are related as two sides of one coin. B. has teasingly, but at the same seriously, accused me of mounting an argumentum...
by cutsinger | May 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Do I have an opinion, you ask, as to whether the professoriate is truly skewed to the left, as David Horowitz and other conservative activists have charged? I’m minded to quote William Kirkpatrick, “the Great Knock”, who—as you may recall—was the...
by cutsinger | Apr 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
As you seem to have discovered for yourself, the key to maintaining balance in the midst of our physical struggles is objectivity with respect to our emotional states. You speak of “managing my anger and sadness by willfully ignoring them until they pass”,...
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