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		<title>A secular imperative to love</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/a-secular-imperative-to-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post responds to yet another interesting dialogue with Terry Sissons, the author of The Other I.
It followed from the last of a series I had written about Karen Armstrong’s new book The case for God: What religion really means.
In a previous conversation, either on Terry’s blog or my own, I’d written – probably in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2261&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolutionary, my dear Watson</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/evolutionary-my-dear-watson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beetle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheetah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch Reformed Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns Germs and Steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What connects all these together?
For the answer (and yet another meander on that eternal mix of ethics, evolution and religious belief) see: http://amateuraficionado.com/2008/02/26/dr-watsons-woes/
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #6</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/whispers-of-the-gods-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Real presences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Steiner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Principle of verification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Presences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulysses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vienna Circle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time we introduced George Steiner’s imaginary ‘society of the primary’, a pristine utopia of creativity. It is a world where artists, writers and musicians do art, writing and music; and where performers interpret texts like plays and musical scores which need or lay themselves open to enactment.  The rest of us meanwhile take these artworks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2189&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #5</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/whispers-of-the-gods-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Horst Wessel Song]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ophelia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thelonious Monk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wittgenstein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last time I said I would try to explain what I meant by the ‘thread of self-loathing’ which seems to me to run through George Steiner’s Real presences.1 Alas, although this post does a few practice runs, it doesn’t quite get there in one jump.
Fifth in a series responding to George Steiner’s Language and silence2 and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2171&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #4</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/whispers-of-the-gods-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real presences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argument from beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Garfunkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Steiner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cornwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Eye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseuds Corner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Art Garfunkel’s website there is a section he calls his LIBRARY which lists every book he has read since June 1968. By September 2009 the count was 1084. Not surprisingly there is a subsection for Favorites. 
Fourth in a series responding to George Steiner’s Language and silence 1 and Real presences 2
See also Whispers of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2146&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion cycle</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/fashion-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JFK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to popular legend the sudden decline in hat wearing by men started in 1960 as a result of John Kennedy.
Some say he went to his inauguration in 1960 without a hat. Others say he took it with him, but he didn’t wear it during the actual ceremony. Apparently neither he nor his brother Bobby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2136&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #3</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/whispers-of-the-gods-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darwin's angel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The god delusion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post was on Language and silence1 by George Steiner. I now turn to one of Steiner’s later books, Real Presences2.
Third in a series responding to George Steiner’s Language and silence and Real presences
See also Whispers of the gods #1 &#38; #2. 
Real presences was mentioned by John Cornwell in his book Darwin’s angel3, itself an ‘angelic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2119&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #2</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/whispers-of-the-gods-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quote I ended with last time, with its ‘proof of a transcendent presence in the fabric of the world’ and ‘certitude of a divine meaning surpassing and enfolding ours’ comes from Silence and the poet, the third essay in Language and silence1 by George Steiner.
Second in a series responding to George Steiner’s Language and silence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2098&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whispers of the gods #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recent posts (Touched by an angel #7 and Karen’s on the case #1) have mentioned George Steiner because the books I was discussing referred to him. But I had no real background, so I read Real Presences1 first and then Language and silence2.
Those familiar with Steiner’s work will know he wrote them the other way round. Which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2078&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Round midnight #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lawrence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember someone saying that Don’t cry for me Argentina lodges in the brain like a cerebral virus. Unfortunately I can’t remember who said it. I’ve Googled to no avail. Whoever it was wasn’t being very complimentary to Andrew Lloyd Webber by the way.
My own viral demon is Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk. But it can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingmakesitso.wordpress.com&blog=4613898&post=2053&subd=thinkingmakesitso&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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