Meditations by Martin LeFevre
Backpacking in the Hetch Hetchy wilderness, you feel both its vastness and sublimity, and a heartbreaking truncation. Magnificent waterfalls plunge over the cliffs, only to fall into a huge reservoir.…
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It’s a gorgeous Sunday afternoon, full of light and color and shadow. Many people are in the quarter-mile wide parkland, which follows a creek as it cuts through the college…
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It’s rather hilarious to hear both conservative and liberal politicians and pundits in the United States say that if Congress doesn’t vote to “punish” Assad for using chemical weapons, it…
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There’s an old Arab proverb: “I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my brother and my cousin against the world.”
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Talked with a woman recently who had major surgery for a large but thankfully benign cyst. The mass was in a very delicate area, and three surgeons wouldn’t even perform…
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A friend writes to express a conundrum many people are grappling with these days, touching on a philosophical inquiry that rather obsessed my youth until I gained sufficient insight into…
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Reincarnation is a fact but not the truth, I once heard a religious teacher say. The point is to incarnate, not reincarnate. Then what the hell is hell?
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As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…