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Questions
Read more: QuestionsSetting: Catholic religion class at school. Characters: New teacher – a man. A bunch of 9-year-olds. Open discussion about covenants. (Based loosely on recollection, don’t shoot the messenger!) Girl in my daughter’s class, with genuine curiosity: Why are all the priests men? Why are there no women priests? Teacher, gently: Well, you see, Jesus was…
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Spirituality, modernity and Brownian motion
Read more: Spirituality, modernity and Brownian motionJust a thought… So many of us feel depleted, drained, stressed out. Our beings flogged from within, our lives – our biggest gift – turned into empty chases. Pursuing a zillion things that we can grab and touch and display, but which aren’t real. We live in societies that prioritize task efficiency, competition, action, and the accumulation of stuff over…
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(Post)modern obsessions
Read more: (Post)modern obsessionsHave you noticed how the following themes keep popping up, almost obsessively, in contemporary discourse – in the media, in the public sphere and increasingly in ourselves? This obsession with sex – and complete devaluation of love and tenderness and commitment. This obsession with doing – and complete devaluation of being. This obsession with the…
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The Sacred and the Profane
Read more: The Sacred and the Profane“Just as a modern man’s habitation has lost its cosmological values, so too his body is without religious or spiritual significance. In a summary formula we might say that for the nonreligious men of the modern age, the cosmos has become opaque, inert, mute; it transmits no message, it holds no cipher. The feeling of…
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Quotes of the Day
Read more: Quotes of the Day“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny. (…) There is danger there – a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all…
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Revisiting the Stoics
Read more: Revisiting the StoicsWell, you know what they say, some things never change. Anxious, dissatisfied, relationship not going well? So what else is new? I’ve recently come across the following, from Epictetus: “There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.” (…) “Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion,…
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Educația, între formare și informare
Read more: Educația, între formare și informareRecent am dat, la grădiniță, peste următorul poster care mi-a plăcut foarte mult și m-am gândit să nu îl țin numai pentru mine. E schema rezumată plastic a unui concept pedagogic preuniversitar (până la gimnaziu, după cum deduc). Iată-l: Ce-mi place la el? În primul rând îmi place la nebunie chestia cu rădăcinile. Faptul că…
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Ancient words of counsel?
Read more: Ancient words of counsel?“It may be said that every individual man and all men in common aim at a certain end which determines what they choose and what they avoid. This end, to sum it up briefly, is HAPPINESS AND ITS CONSTITUENTS. (…) We may define happiness as prosperity combined with virtue; or as independence of life; or…
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Despre “sfânta” ospitalitate
Read more: Despre “sfânta” ospitalitateA fost odată ca niciodată…. literalmente. Petrecându-mi eu zilele în pitoreasca Bavarie și târându-mi țurloaiele pe strada mohorâtă de toamnă și de ploaie ca să-mi duc odrasla la grădiniță, unde nu-mi stă frate mintea-n loc când dau peste următoarea arătare: Ei bine, da, un wohnmobil. Un camper. Ce mare filosofie, ați zice voi, naivilor. Ce…
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Toni Erdmann – A Must See
Read more: Toni Erdmann – A Must SeeToni Erdmann, which has just opened in Germany, is a bizarre independent film that will make you embrace Romania with all you’ve got, and which also manages to lampoon the trappings of corporate life just the right amount. (The impossible loneliness, the ridiculous helplessness of wrestling with a dress that’s too tight amidst the barren luxury…
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