I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.
Tag Archives: Jean Paul Sartre
God’s Answer to Job–and to Me
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Kundera Understood Authoritarianism
The late Milan Kundera understood the authoritarian mindset in a deep way. “Book of Laughter and Forgetting” and “Eternal Lightness of Being” capture the mindset.
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How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul
In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.
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Sartre Captures White Privilege
Sartre’s “Respectful Prostitute” captures many of the race dynamics of our current situation.
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The Good Place & Dante’s Inferno
The show “The Good Place” provides insight into Dante’s Inferno.
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Leaves Condemned to Be Free
Scott Bates offers this humorous existentialist meditation on falling leaves.
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A Serene Way to Deal with Chaos
Scott Bates’s humorous fable “The Contented Weed” offers a serene way to handle everything that life throws at us.
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Fathers & Sons: He Goes His Way, I Mine
Wednesday The talk with my son that I described in Monday’s post reminded me of talks with my own father where I was sure he was wrong. I’ve since concluded that I was not as right as I thought I was and that our disagreements came down to our different life arcs. Our arguments came […]
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