Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Labels: Existentialism
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 12:08 AM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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I heard a comment years ago that essentially said a philosopher seeking truth without God is like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there.
Cran
Some truths would still exist: 2 and 2 is 4.
Jeffery Hodges
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Yes, but are two cats that aren't there and two cats that aren't there the same as four cats that aren't there?
That's what I want to know,
Jeffery Hodges
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The Apostle Paul gives a list of the last days of this church age in 2 Timothy chapter 3. One phrase stands out: Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Tim. 3:7.
Cran
Paul always was a difficult person.
Jeffery Hodges
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