February 2002 * Web version
DOUGLAS
BURTON-CHRISTIE:
The Pagan Philosopher's Quest for Holiness: Plotinus and his Circle
... the pagan philosopher's position as a "saint" in late antiquity and his ability to act with power in that world derived not only from his spiritual achievement. It also depended upon on his place in his world, including his knowledge of its culture and his easy dealings with his peers. "He summed up in his person ideals shared by the educated classes as a whole, and was admired for having acted these out in such a way as to transcend and stand outside the inconsistencies and the conflicts that were the stuff of public life ... His mind was the most pure and so, in his dealings with others, his hand could be counted on as the most unsullied. The pagan philosopher's position as a "saint" and as an "honest broker" within his world came both because of his spiritual achievement and because it was achieved from within the core of his
culture. 
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RESPONSES
Anand Bose, 'Glyph Agog' In 7 Ecclesia Street Time: 8
AM
... It's a wonder to me, as to why I am using this title! Yes, words are the
stirrings of consciousness, the symbols of representation; living with Joyce in
the vast of expanse of his imagination is life beyond. The trickles of thought
which are fantasies for normal minds are realities, which live, in the inner
mind. In that sense- 'Joyce' represents an epic of living. Culture becomes
reified abstracts, which flood into the individuality of 'ordinariness',
recreating the world of the 'fantastic' in being human. The body becomes a
castle of counts and countesses who throng into the throne of desire. ...
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Freeware
downloads
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With Offline CD Browser you can save catalogues of your data CDs (or other drives). You can then browse these catalogues just as you do in the Windows Explorer, and even search through all of them for specific files, without having the CD discs in your CD player. The catalogue files are just "tables of contents" and because of that they almost don't take up any disc space at all. By Anders Petersson.
Freeware downloads /System tools
The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). Besides this, official, and very useful function, I've found out that this tool can scroll one page up or down even when intelli MS software only scrolls a few lines, e.g. in font or style lists in word processors and elsewhere. KatMouse will run on NT(SP3+), Windows 2000 and XP, but not 9x and ME.
Resources: CD Recording Software (Finale's tip. - Thank you!)
Free Flash Games like Solitaire or Soccer to play on-line or place on your web site.
Clipboard
Unchecked Buffer in Universal Plug and Play can Lead to System Compromise. Affected software: Win98, 98SE, ME, XP. Impact: Run code of attacker's choice. Get the fix.
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ELLOPOS Polls
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All of the movies in this poll, more or less, present a rather hostile world - hostile to love, knowledge, creativity, childhood. Bergmann projects the struggling to eternity, but even thus without being so desperate as Truffault, for whom even fighting is not possible, Bertolucci finds the antidote in the family, Resnais promises memory as homesickness, Eastwood suggests the pain of the suffering innocence, but without escaping vainness, Weir attacks blind tradition and stupidity with creative and passionate living, Gibson attacks the 'life' of the crowd - so far in the same line with Weir - but with an intimate and permanent relationship. The decisive difference, I think, with Weir's and Gibson's movies is that they both and only them see in this hostile world a strange creature called a teacher, someone who helps us make the things deep and beautiful - to paraphrase Nietzsche. Isn't this the reason why we overlook Bergmann's or Truffault's directorial excellence? As for the winners' order, Weir is first, if we guess well the voters' views, because he was modest but real, Gibson is second by betraying his real ambitions, Bertolucci is third by interpreting modesty as mediocrity. |
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Mahdi Shakibania asks "How to study Meister Eckhart?" |
... You can write a small book, or you
can write a large book - Borges wrote a library! - but in any case, in all your
pages you need to have just one word, and this is already too much: a deviation,
a mistake and a sin! A second or a third word are gates and your town will be
conquered, sooner or later, and the swine will trample the holy under their
feet. God will forgive your sin, if it is a one-word sin, if your town is an
invitation for the conquerors to smash their teeth on it ...
* Dr J. Devriendt - webmaster of ERMR - writes : "Votre site est très agréable et fournit des documents riches (...) Déjà j'ai envoyé votre adresse à des spécialistes de Maître Eckhart"
* Benoît Beyer de Ryke - webmaster of URHM - writes: "Bonjour, Bravo pour votre site sur Eckhart. Je me permets de vous signaler que mon étude sur le grand mystique rhénan est en ligne, à l'adresse suivante (...) Maître Eckhart, une mystique du détachement (...)".
* K.B.Chandra Raj wishes we had more novels in the way we publish David Copperfield, while Alegre Nadal says that the Copperfield site "helped me tremendously while I was researching David Copperfield. Thanks again. I will use this website again for future references."
* Jennifer complains "Why aren't there communities for Dickens' other great works such as Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times, just to name a few?" - Your will is done Jennifer! But we don't believe these new communities will have a future, since we've chosen to focus on David Copperfield, which means that our pages attract visitors interested especially in this novel. If you ask your Google to bring you Copperfield, ELLOPOS will be in the first page of results. If you ask for Great Expectations you will be first directed to other sites.
* Kent Carpentier searches for The Asceticon of St. Basil the Great on-line.
* Finale searches for a protected floppies copy tool better than exact diskcopy, and tells us that in Czech republik they now have "-5 degrees temperature and 20 cm snow, 10 000 000 inhabitants, 99% czech, 0,8 % polish, minimal payment is 1 dollar/1 hour, average payment is 300 dollars/1 month." - Thanks for this communication our friend. We wish all the best to you and your country, and we hope Kafka still fights his castles out there...
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