Mark, I'm also just sticking my nose in here where it doesnt' belong. Feel free to ignore my comments or take them as rhetorical, ok? Have you ever tried...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 7, 2009 5:48 pm
Teresa -- we have had long and drawn out discussions about K's relationship to Christianity/Christendom on this forum. I think K distinguishes between...
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Mark Woodworth
ms.woody956
Apr 7, 2009 6:20 pm
Teresa:   First of all let me say that in my view you absolutely do belong .    Yes, I have read both WOL and PUHITWOT.     What about the...
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jimstuart46
Apr 8, 2009 11:42 am
Mark, Good for you! Thinking is not easy for any of us. I am sure you are as well equipped as the next person. Both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche think and write...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 8, 2009 2:24 pm
Mark: In my opinion, Jim S is about 99% right. But that one percent that he seems to miss -- mind you, only seems to in my opinion, I could be wrong -- is...
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Mark Woodworth
ms.woody956
Apr 8, 2009 3:05 pm
Jim: Â Â Â Â I'll take that as a vote of confidence even knowing that the "next person" might very well be a pretentious moron. ...
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Teresa Riley
selahhhhhhh
Apr 8, 2009 3:11 pm
HI Mark - Thanks for your kind welcome. I hesitate to contribute because I don't have the time to do so extremely well. It's been almost 2 years since I've...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 8, 2009 3:41 pm
General reminder: First sign of sock puppets or direct personal attacks and I will start moderating posts. Jim R...
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jimstuart46
Apr 8, 2009 4:57 pm
Teresa, You write: "… we don't set aside intellect to be in relationship with our creator. Rather, we love him with all our mind by wrestling through the...
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Mark Woodworth
ms.woody956
Apr 8, 2009 5:20 pm
Jim:   I'm not sure what you mean by sock puppets, but I would hope there is enough of a sense of humor here to accommodate a little sarcasm. If it was my...
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Teresa Riley
selahhhhhhh
Apr 8, 2009 6:01 pm
Hi Jim, I'm not meaning to suggest that using our intellect means K believes we arrive at all the answers. I worded that loosely. Kierkegaard if anyone loved...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 8, 2009 6:08 pm
You're alright Mark. I'm responding to the history of the group and not to you personally, even though your post did prompt the reminder. I apologize for not...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 8, 2009 6:30 pm
Teresa -- In my reading of K, and what I think K (well, Climacus) was getting at in the text Jim S. quoted, is that the key here is our response to the ...
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Teresa Riley
selahhhhhhh
Apr 8, 2009 7:06 pm
Yep, I agree with everything you said, Jim R. My point to Mark (if I had one) was to tell Mark that even according to K. its not a contradiction to use your...
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Mark Woodworth
ms.woody956
Apr 10, 2009 8:03 pm
  >As a Catholic I will confess that during Lent I have failed to go to confession , something which is more or less mandatory to the penitent...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 11, 2009 1:43 am
Interesting post. I'm fasting self-control for Lent and let me tell you...it is Exhausting. Jim R...
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Mark Woodworth
ms.woody956
Apr 11, 2009 7:27 pm
... Mark ________________________________ From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@...> To: kierkegaardians@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:42:42...
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Donald Anderson
nancyanddonray
Apr 17, 2009 5:45 pm
Dear JimS, I agree that K and N are concerned about being subjective. Is there any other way to be (or become). But I am not comfortable with the talk about...
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Donald Anderson
nancyanddonray
Apr 17, 2009 6:00 pm
See below Don ... Are you aware of John Caputo, Merold Westphal, Mark C. Taylor etc who seem to see the world gong in a decidedly different direction from ...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 17, 2009 8:14 pm
Thanks much for your reply, Don. My main issue with the first point is with the broadness of the concepts involved to begin with, broad to the point that the...
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jimstuart46
Apr 19, 2009 6:45 pm
Don, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I agree with much of what you say, but disagree with this thought of yours: "It seems to me that k agrees that all...
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Donald Anderson
nancyanddonray
Apr 24, 2009 3:01 am
Jim, Thanks for your careful response. see my responses below. Don ... wrote: Thank you for your thoughtful response. I agree with much of what you say, but...
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jimstuart46
Apr 25, 2009 7:53 am
Don, I think there is a certain amount of muddle in your own thinking on this matter, and a certain amount of ambiguity and misleadingness in what you write. I...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 25, 2009 12:40 pm
Jim S -- Don seems to me to suggest that K equated the "universal" with the "objective" and the "individual" with the "subjective." <<K, on my reading, sees...
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jimstuart46
Apr 25, 2009 9:15 pm
Jim R, I assumed that by `universal', Kierkegaard means something like `general'. So the universal is contrasted with the particular. I don't think K would...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 25, 2009 9:43 pm
Thanks for the reply, Jim S. I would say that K emphasizes our subjective approach to God to the extent that it's easy to lose sight of the existence of God...
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Donald Anderson
nancyanddonray
Apr 25, 2009 11:48 pm
JimR I agree with you that there are many, particularly among students, who think they know but do not know that they do not know. They use the latest terms,...
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Donald Anderson
nancyanddonray
Apr 26, 2009 12:15 am
JimR, You said: Your request for support for my claim of a confluence between German Romanticism and postmodernism (as it is usually conceived in literary ...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 26, 2009 12:24 am
Thanks for your reply, Don. I don't mean to sound dismissive of your own original thought on postmodernism. I am highly annoyed with postmodernism within...
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James Rovira
jamesrovira
Apr 26, 2009 12:35 am
Don -- have you read K's Concept of Irony? He discusses German Romanticism's literary output and how that output was conceived by its authors. David Foster...
