I Am Not A Prophet; I Cannot

The Task Is To Keep The Lost Opportunities Of The Past Alive.

Lev (léon) Shestov, A Russian Jew Who Later Became A French Jew And Even Converted To Catholicism, Defined God Not By His Power To Create The Laws Of Universe, But His Ability To Break Them At Will - The Capacity For Miracles. God Could Cancel The Past! For Instance, God Could Decide Retrospectively, That Socrates Was Never Poisoned... Assimilation Demanded A Miracle: That You Stop Having Been Somebody Else Before... But Only God Can Do It.

For Intellectual Authority, The Appropriate Version Of Descartes 's Cogito Would Be Today: I Am Talked About, Therefore I Am.

In Our World Of Rampant Individualisation, Relationships Are Mixed Blessings. They Vacillate Between A Sweet Dream And A Nightmare, And There Is No Telling When One Turns Into The Other.

Security Without Freedom Means Slavery.