Comments for The Jacob Schriftman Blog http://schriftman.wordpress.com "A great interest in great questions. A great appreciation of great moments." - The Blog of Author Jacob Schriftman Fri, 17 May 2013 06:26:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Josephus: What’s Stronger—Wine, Women, or Truth? by ALamb http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/josephus-whats-strongerwine-women-or-truth/#comment-2014 Fri, 17 May 2013 06:26:27 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=3166#comment-2014 Interesting

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]]> Comment on What If Everything Repeated Itself in All Eternity? Milan Kundera on the Eternal Return by margaretjeanlangstaff http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/what-if-everything-repeated-itself-in-all-eternity-milan-kundera-on-the-eternal-return/#comment-1984 Thu, 09 May 2013 19:36:45 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=3084#comment-1984 I admire Kundera and love The Unbearable Lightness of Being, for many reasons, both literary and its uncanny sensual communication of what are essentially ineffable truths. I write fiction, often humorous, and filched his title, turned it upside down, for a story about the most pedestrian, mundane and silly situations in human life–”The Unbearable Lightness of Prunes” came out of nowhere to me and stuck to it like a burr. Readers immediately got it, responded to it. Kundera clearly made his mark, a lasting impression on his time, only the greatest writers do

]]> Comment on London Skyline by chrisstov http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/london-skyline/#comment-1974 Sat, 04 May 2013 06:28:28 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=3111#comment-1974 Interesting sky.

]]> Comment on Plato’s Famous Allegory of the Cave by Looking to the shadows | A Blemish is a Blunder http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/platos-famous-allegory-of-the-cave/#comment-1973 Sat, 04 May 2013 00:04:26 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=2940#comment-1973 [...] Plato’s Famous Allegory of the Cave (schriftman.wordpress.com) [...]

]]> Comment on The Second Naïveté: From Mysticism to Strauss by The mystical experience to which all have access is a profound awareness of universality and connection to it. | Stephen C. Rose http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/the-second-navet-from-mysticism-to-strauss/#comment-1971 Fri, 03 May 2013 12:17:13 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=3107#comment-1971 [...] The Second Naïveté: From Mysticism to Strauss (schriftman.wordpress.com) [...]

]]> Comment on Is Enlightenment Totalitarian? by The Second Naïveté: From Mysticism to Strauss | The Jacob Schriftman Blog http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/is-enlightenment-totalitarian/#comment-1969 Thu, 02 May 2013 21:49:54 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/is-enlightenment-totalitarian/#comment-1969 [...] the main other author whom I found to repeatedly use the term “second naïveté” is Theodor Adorno. In fact, in a biography about Adorno, Detlev Claussen says that the “second naïveté” is the [...]

]]> Comment on Ten Years Later: Rick Joyner’s *Final Quest* by CR http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/ten-years-later-rick-joyners-final-quest/#comment-1966 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:57:50 +0000 http://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=716#comment-1966 I too have experienced an exciting renewal of passion for God and a desire to answer a high calling after reading ‘The Final Quest’ series. I was deeply saddened to read about how you have lost your passion for this new word from God.

If I may offer an insight.

After reading The Final Quest I also craved a vision from Christ of my own. But I quickly realized that needing to see proof is a sign of doubt. And doubt is a form of faithlessness. Faithlessness leads to more doubt and ultimately failure.

I believe God can do so much more with a person who does not need to see a vision of proof. That is why I have been praying specifically that the Lord does not show me a supernatural vision but instead reveals the truth to my heart. I’m now 100% convinced of the truth revealed in TFQ series. I am already seeing God moving in miraculous ways since I’ve been praying this way.

I pray the Lord will soon continue the work he started in you. Your initial exuberance for this new revelation of God tells me that you are likely one of the champions he has called to spread this message.

]]> Comment on What If Everything Repeated Itself in All Eternity? Milan Kundera on the Eternal Return by Thomas Peace (author) http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/what-if-everything-repeated-itself-in-all-eternity-milan-kundera-on-the-eternal-return/#comment-1965 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:42:14 +0000 https://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=3084#comment-1965 If you ever get a chance, read my book, The Eternal Fountain of Youth. It discusses the intrinsic nature of eternity (and the possibility of existing beyond it, in the timeless).

]]> Comment on The Higher Naiveté by Paul Ricoeur and the Second Naïveté | The Jacob Schriftman Blog http://schriftman.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-higher-naivete/#comment-1961 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:35:30 +0000 http://schriftman.wordpress.com/?p=1458#comment-1961 [...] on certain historical accounts from Antiquity, I brought up Donald Kagan’s concept of the “higher naïveté.” This caused one of my discussion partners to mention the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur and his [...]

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