For those of you out there with a lot on your mind, take a three minute break and partake in the joys of my poetry. This one goes out to all the students in the middle of midterms season. p p p p p p p p p p p p p "Where do I go from here? Alas,
10.10.2011| The Fish Tank | Christopher Hopper
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Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! Oh, how I look forward to growing just another year older today... and hopefully a little wiser also. However, age is an interesting conundrum. As we age, we move one step farther from the crib and one step closer to the grave. What does it all mea
06.10.2011| The Fish Tank | Christopher Hopper
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In reviewing the polemical, vitriolic works of such "New Atheists" as Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennet in his book Atheist Delusions, David Bentley Hart looks wistfully back upon the more nuanced, honest and tragic atheism of thinkers like Nietzche and Sartre, and concludes with this lament: “
05.4.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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Few things are more paralyzing to believers than that particularly dread gloom which inevitably dawns whenever a vague, gnawing sense of the unreality and irrelevance of the claims of Christian faith begins to crystallize in experience. Leo Tolstoy, after publishing War and Peace and Anna Ka
04.10.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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"Above all, I am anxious to grant no credence whatsoever to the special mythology of 'the Enlightenment.' Nothing strikes me as more tiresomely vapid than the notion that there is some sort of inherent opposition--or impermeable partition--between faith and reason, or that the modern period is mar
03.14.2011| The Fish Tank | Nick Nowalk
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Last night, Stephen Fry won the Harvard Secular Society's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The audience packed the pews of Memorial church, and rolled with laughter at Fry's speech, filled with jokes as well as with rhetoric about reason and religion. As a former atheist
02.23.2011| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
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"What do I want to do with my life?" the ever-wary college student contemplates as he moves one day closer to graduation day. Doubt creeps into his mind as he realizes that he will soon move into a world where he will have to steer his own ship. He knows he doesn’t have complete control over t
02.22.2011| The Fish Tank | Christopher Hopper
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