A friend remarked a little while back that being a philosophy teacher is an especially easy job. “How so,” I asked? He said because I have lots of free time. I laughed and answered that being a philosopher means I almost never have a moment free. I am thinking all the [...]
I had a particularly energizing artistic experience this past weekend. My friend, Ethan Fisher, is a gifted poet, and we often perform together. Ethan reads his poetry while I improvise guitar textures behind him. We have been doing it for years and have even done a handful of radio shows, once even “filling out the [...]
Huh?
It seems the opposite—that what makes a prophet first class is that all of the prophecies come true. Even skeptics who deny the possibility of prophecy will admit this. They would say prophets, like unicorns, can be described with certainty (white, horse-like, and having a single horn), but a description, however detailed, does not [...]
Just like a character in a Greek tragedy, we have been marching blindly towards our doom. And a lot like Oedipus, we have been blind to the steps we could be taking to save ourselves from doom–like putting common need above personal greed.
Of course, it takes a lot of idealism to do that, [...]
