ai_age : I need your help. I am trying to comprehend critique of pure reason, but it is beyond my scope. Tell me how to go about this book. I am not able to...
Often, you will encounter the term "a year and a day", especially in court sentencing. The other day, someone asked me "Why a year AND a DAY, why not just one...
Sitaram: I have been thinking lately about an interesting verse from the Bible, the Old Testament, the prophet Jeremiah... where God says to him, "All of the...
http://www.thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=10331 The "Left Behind" series is a team effort by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Just the...
I have long felt that existentialism appears inchoate in Pascal's Pensees. "The heart has reasons of which Reason knows nothing." and that Pensee about the...
Visit my new profile blog at http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions (Someone at The Book Forum, TBF, has asked why Rushdie chooses the angel Gabriel rather...
(visit http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions ) One reader requests clarification: Dear Sitaram: Some years ago, you wrote at your website: "I have...
The following are excerpts from the full article to be found at my message board: http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic979.php Consider the...
What You Need To Believe To Be A Republican Today? Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals, Arabs, and Hillary Clinton. Saddam was a good guy...
I have found a wonderful story from India at the following link: http://www.yimag.org/mkm/pilgrimage.html I have changed only a few words and phrases here and...
A young single mother writes of her loneliness and despair. She feels discouraged in her attempts to find a partner. Here is my reply: I wish I had some magic...
I have been corresponding for several years now with Shravya, who was raised in Andra Pradesh and speaks Telugu, but who currently lives in Chennai in Tamil...
Phil Silvers was a popular television comedian during the 1950s and 60s. His daughter, Laury Silvers, through a serious of unusual incidents, converted to...
http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2002/rama.htm The Importance of Rama In Arabian Culture By CTR Wilson, Saidabad, Hyderabad 500 020 The words Ra...
Here is a link to download all my writings of the past nine years as zipped files. I still need to add some things, but this is pretty complete. Nothing lasts...
One reader asks: Sitaram, I am curious, do you see a significant difference between the following two statements? 1) Treat others as you would like to be...
(posted today at http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions and also at http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic1080.php ) Yesterday, I watched an...
My old Palm M-120 started to have strange problems synchronizing with the various desktops that I use. Today, I purchased a Palm Z22 for $99 at Staples. So...
Regarding the spirit of author censorship, and books on trial: I think it was John Barth that I was reading, perhaps his non-fiction collection "Further...
For many years now, I have written on the Internet about certain topics, some of which are halakic in nature. You might find what I posted just now to be of...
Here is this morning's internet dialogue in Yahoo chat between myself and a professor of folklore in South India, posted with his permission. I have done only...
One reader responds: Wow! Sitaram! You put so much thought into your post that I hate to be such a spoil sport- almost. Saved from what? From being the animals...
posted at http://progressiveislam.org posted at http://www.myspace.com/literarydiscussions Thanks, Laury, for the link to Dr. Godlas's website. I visited his...
I met with a special young woman, age 11, yesterday, special because she is a distant relative through marriage She showed me her myspace blog and mentioned...
(posted just now at progressiveislam.org) Rabbi Abraham Heschel, in his two volume work on "The Prophets" of the Old Testament Bible, wrote, "few are guilty,...
Gandhi Quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mohandasga164233.html A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. A...