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Are You the Same Person You Used to Be

Clip source: Are%20You%20the%20Same%20Person%20You%20Used%20to%20Be%3F%20%7C%20The%20New%20Yorker Skip to main content Annals of InquiryBecoming YouAre you the same person you were when you were a child? By Joshua Rothman October 3, 2022 Illustration by Juan BernabeuPeople have strong, divergent opinions about the continuity of their own selves.I have few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father of a four-year-old. My son and I have great times together; ...

Are You the Same Person You Used to Be

Clip source: Are%20You%20the%20Same%20Person%20You%20Used%20to%20Be%3F%20%7C%20The%20New%20Yorker Skip to main content Annals of InquiryBecoming YouAre you the same person you were when you were a child? By Joshua Rothman October 3, 2022 Illustration by Juan BernabeuPeople have strong, divergent opinions about the continuity of their own selves.I have few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father of a four-year-old. My son and I have great times together; ...

I AM Statements - Jesus in the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon contains a unique literary witness of the Savior. While the Gospel of John is known for "I AM" statements of Jesus (like "I am the Bread of Life" or "I am the Door"), the Book of Mormon also has similar divine declarations. In some cases, they line up neatly with the Old Testament and New Testament. In others, they represent unique titles for Jesus Christ found only in Restoration scripture. In this interview, Joshua Matson expounds on the first-ever published study of I AM...

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity

Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and a German father who was a GI in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Korea until age twelve, then in Germany and the U.S. His autobiographical first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, a 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, draws upon his childhood, as does this second novel, which is set in part across the North Han River from Sambong-ni, his mother’s native village. "Skull Water was initially a memoir, and I drew extensively from my lif...

Identification of a Woman

The Criterion Collection Home Search Cart Account Menu Michelangelo Antonioni Identification of a Woman Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women: at the same time, he searches for the right subject and actress for his next film. This spellbinding antirom...

CAPSULE: THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR (1967)

L’inconnu de Shandigor 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Jean-Louis Roy FEATURING: Daniel Emilfork, Marie-France Boyer, Marcel Imhoff, erge Gainsbourg PLOT: After Swiss scientist Herbert Von Krantz develops a method for nullifying nuclear explosions, various world powers plot to steal his secret. [link ]COMMENTS: I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that this film is quite an oddity. It feature...

Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS

[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...

The Twelve Tribes of Israel - World History Encyclopedia

The Twelve Tribes of Israel Article Listen to this article The Twelve Tribes of Israel refer to the sons of the Jewish Patriarch Jacob and are important for the tribal lineages of those who constituted the nation of Israel. In the ancient world, all ethnic groups developed stories of their ancestors in what are known as foundation myths as bloodlines were important in maintaining ancestral lineage and provided status as identity markers. The Twelve Tribes of Israel Ori299 (...

Celebrity is a mask that eats the face

Inge Morath, Saul Steinberg Masquerade From John Updike’s Self-Consciousness: Memoirs: Celebrity, even the modest sort that comes to writers, is an unhelpful exercise in self-consciousness. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ‘somebody,’ to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. Most of the best fiction is written ou...

I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?

I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? By Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise—you know! How dreary—to be—Somebody! How public—like a Frog— To tell one’s name—the livelong June— To an admiring Bog! Summary of I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? Popularity of "I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?": Emily Dickinson, a great American poet wrote ‘I’M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU?’. It is an ironic poem famous on account of its theme of priv...

Philosopher AI - What is the literary significance of a missing finger?

Philosopher AI - What is the literary significance of a missing finger?SourceURL: https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/what-is-the-literary-significance-of-a-missing-fin-0ab935 Philosopher AINew topicWhat is the literary significance of a missing finger?➹ Share ⟳ Try againFirstly, I have read the work of the philosopher Edmund Burke. He speaks about how people act and perceive one another in society. His theories on human nature derive from a basis of experience as well as observation.29 Aug...

Painting Borges

Painting Borges A provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.In this groundbreaking book, Jorge J. E. Gracia explores the artistic interpretation of fiction from a philosophical perspective. Focusing on the work of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most celebrated literary figures of Latin America, Gracia offers original interpretations of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories about identity and memory, freedom and destiny, and f...

SID (thing) by Morgon77 - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 SID (thing) See all of SID, there are 5 more in this node. (thing) by Morgon77 Sat Mar 12 2005 at 14:09:41 The SID is also the System Identification for various Cellular network areas. For instance, the Washington DC area is 00013. Connecticut is 00088. The SID is generally only a programmable feature on CDMA and TDMA phones, which can be manually programmed, and may need the SID to be reprogrammed to either prevent or allow roa...