Walking through a parking lot today with one of my housemates, we spotted a car with a really big sticker on the back window: “Team…
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A Short History of Myth, part 4
Source material that is simply bad To be fair to Armstrong, I would assume much of her previously mentioned double standards arose from her source…
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This darkly pessimistic view on goddesses is most exemplified in Armstrong’s version of the myths of Inanna. I’ve had the pleasure of reading some rather…
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Blatant and inaccurate double standards As I’ve previously noted, I was not happy with how the second chapter was progressing. To my increasing dismay, things…
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The first book by Karen Armstrong which I read was A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It was absolutely…
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(another of the very short papers for the class on the spirituality of creativity) I know of several works of art with a mythic element…
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On Saturday I was very pleased to get to go to the ballet again, with my delightful companion, to see “Carmen.” It was danced by…
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This was a quick one-page paper written for one of my classes, which has a wonderful name: “Tree of Brilliant Fruit: Finding Spiritual Wisdom Through…
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The weather is absolutely gorgeous today! I am so pleased to have sunshine and warmth now, instead of constantly gray and rainy days. Consequently, here…
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I just finished listening to an utterly fascinating interview on a blogradio with a man named Allan Johnson. I’m very interested in hearing what others…
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