August 2006
The Archives
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edutainment, giftedness
Gifted kids as hothouse plants
08.31.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Gifted kids as hothouse plants“One of the main problems with growing up that way is not being gifted but being called gifted and being grouped under the name. Any kind of frozen identity is problematic in general; it’s not helpful. Once you’re gifted you have to always be gifted and it’s hard to admit to the ignorance that it […]
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christianity, christians, liberals, nietzsche, zarathustra
Tarantulas
One more Zarathustra passage, this time on Christianity and damn liberal hippies. This one always makes me think of that part of Lord of the Rings when Frodo is trapped in the cave by that spider:
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ethics, nietzsche, sleep, virtue, zarathustra
Blessed are the sleepy
Another Nietzsche passage, this time on ethics, complacency, and spiritual disciplines:
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asceticism, buddhism, death, life, lust, nietzsche
Preachers of death
08.31.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsCK has me thinking about Nietzsche again, so here is a passage from Zarathustra on Buddhism and asceticism:
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nazis, wisconsin
64 Nazis vs. 800 Wisconsins
08.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 64 Nazis vs. 800 WisconsinsI think this is what you call getting upstaged. Read one anti-nazi sign: “Wrong time. Wrong place. Halloween is in October.” Where are Jake and Elwood when you need them?
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armon-of-god, buddhism, pluto, theism, zionism
Friday Scribbler: 2006/08/25
08.25.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Friday Scribbler: 2006/08/25Some groovy posts from the Daily Scribe crew: David Kesley at Jewschool looks at the recent NYC “die in’s” and makes a modest proposal: Why should Zionist oppression start in 1948 and not with “the white male capitalist regimes of Kings Saul, David, and Solomon?” Philocrites sadly notes that the Unitarian who discovered Pluto has […]
