EdgewiseI'm sorry but that's all the time we haveSitting next to my father- December 19, 2007 It could be a very curious experience sitting next to my father watching a bad movie. He thoroughly enjoyed anticipating the next line of a predictable dialog. This involved more than just getting the words right. There was also the timing. It had to be quick, and had to hit on the half-beat in the movie&8217;s pacing, exactly midway between two lines spoken on the screen. So I&8217;d hear my father first, courteously sotto voce, and then hear the actor on the screen repeating him! As...http://edgewise.info/2007/12/18/sitting_next_to_my_father.html Sort of about Chanukah and Christmas- December 16, 2007 Got this in the email today: The lasting achievement of the Maccabees was not that they won a war but that they rekindled the light of hope in Jewish hearts and saved the faith of monotheism from defeat. - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, 1997 Background: Chanukah celebrates the victory in the 160s BCE of a Jewish People&8217;s Warguerrilla war (possibly the first of its kind) against the gigantic armies sent from Persia to impose Greek culture and religion on them. The...http://edgewise.info/2007/12/15/sort_of_about_chanukah_and_christmas.html Funundrum- December 11, 2007 Nobody knows what the Sun really looks like. &8212;DKohttp://edgewise.info/2007/12/11/funundrum.html Philosophical Courage- December 5, 2007 I&8217;ve been getting an Aristotle Quote of the Day on my (Google) home page. Today it was, &8220;Character is habitual action.&8221; And&8212;totally apart from the content&8212;I am thinking, &8220;What guts! To say something so flat out straightforward, so intellectually committed as those four words.&8221; And there is nothing obviously true about these words. Where are the self-protective qualifications Where are the noncommittal &8220;Cover Your Ass&8221; phrases and clauses After...http://edgewise.info/2007/12/04/philosophical_courage.html |