ecclesiastes

February 22, 2021

“That They Themselves Are Beasts”

18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Catch-All

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January 12, 2021

New, old, permanence, and change. A montage of thoughts and quotes. (Repost, Feb. 23, 2020)

Note: May 18, 2021. I’m thinking about aging tonight, and the passage of time. Which reminded me of the following montage of thoughts and quotes that I assembled last year. “Not everything was better in our ancestors’ days, either — our own age, too, has produced many instances of excellence and artistic merit deserving to Continue reading

Catch-All

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April 22, 2019

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.

Intro. We are equally vulnerable. Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that, thought there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man [and woman*] is not so considerable Continue reading

Catch-All

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ecclesiastes

“That They Themselves Are Beasts”

New, old, permanence, and change. A montage of thoughts and quotes. (Repost, Feb. 23, 2020)

Five Human Commonalities. Intro by Thomas Hobbes.