Lucretius

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• Living stones or dead stones - Remembrance Sunday

  
  CAUTE — Authority: 109
  The address was preceded with a story I have used many times before and is taken from Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry (2000, Washington DC, Counterpoint Press pp. 151-152) My grandson, who is four years old, is now following his father and me over some of the same countryside that I followed my father and ...
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• Nothing appears as it should

  
  "minutiae" by Nathan Abels — Authority: 132
  film still from Lord of the Flies "Nothing appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only thing certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain." ~Lucretius ( source )
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• Visitation dreams: When the Veil between Worlds is Thin

  
  The Dream Studies Portal — Authority: 106
  With Halloween on its way, it’s high time to take a look at visitation dreams, or dreams we have of the departed.For hundreds of years, early November (conveniently poised between the Fall Equinox and the Winter Solstice) has been celebrated as a time of harvest and plenty, and also a time when the veil between [...]
  2 weeks ago

• A fan letter to the Epicureans

  
  JSBlog — Authority: 456
  Unreal Nature featured a recent interesting post, Gastrosophy , mentioning various philosophical takes on food - such as Anthelme Brillat-Savarins thoughts that there should be a tenth Muse, Gasterea - which made a couple of references to " epicurism ". Its a pity that "epicure" and "epicurean" have become more or ...
  3 weeks ago

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