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On a board that I am a member of someone casually and largely sarcastically posted that philosophy is dead. I protested that just because he didn’t call things philosophy didn’t mean that philosophy is no longer. The discussion started with respect to the subgenres of Science Fiction and Fantasy. These subcategories are just conveniences for publishers and suggestions to booksellers as to where particular books should be displayed.

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AN ELOQUENT BREVITY

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Laura (Riding) Jackson(1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer whom I came to know about in the first years of my retirement after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life: 1949 to 1999. In 1938 W.H. Auden called her "the only living philosophical poet, and in 1939 another American poet, Robert Fitzgerald, expressed the hope that with the 1938 publication of her Collected Poems, "the ...

Peace be on you.
(1) Eclipses are natural phenomenon. But there was something very special in the solar and lunar eclipses of 1894 which occurred on the specific dates in the same month of Ramadan. What was so special in that? Such eclipses were foretold by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) as the sign of truth of his Mahdi [The guided one]. It is the another title of the latter days’ moral and spiritual reformer namely, The Promised Messiah (a.s.). When they took place, a claimant was present. He ...