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Oscar Strik
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The Lady
This April was a religion-themed month over at videogame blog The Ontological Geek. I wrote the final article in the series, and mused a little on how concepts of religion, God, and particularly The Holy, can be incorporated into videogames. For perhaps obvious reasons, it’s easy for games to tackle and represent the more mundane sides of religion and faith, but they seem to struggle s...
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Homecomings
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Language for its own sake: Essays on Language and Literature offered to Harry Perridon
by Henk van der Liet , Muriel Norde , Martje Wijers — published 2012 |
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“A general principle concerning the gender of bears has been established years ago by bear supervisor König from Bern, after over thirty years of observation. It allows for predictions and states, in short, that when a female bear bears three cubs, and they aren't all male or female, it will invariably be either two males and a female, or two females and a male.”
― Wolfgang Klein
― Wolfgang Klein
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran
― Edith Södergran
“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not.”
― Epicurus
― Epicurus
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