December 2011
9 posts
The whole art world has become a sort of pyramid scheme. We all know that. It’s merely an adjunct of the financial sector, void of content, void of meaning, apolitical, amoral. It’s probably always been a tax shelter for the rich, and conservative and elitist at its core, but like every other hypercapitalist-driven institution of the contemporary era, it’s gotten exponentially worse. Just as...
“The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”
– The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as First Timothy and often written 1 Timothy, is one of three letters in the New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles
For example, Norman Perrin analyzed the Greek used by the author or authors of the Pastoral Epistles, finding that over 1/3 of their vocabulary is not used anywhere else in the Pauline epistles; more than 1/5 is not used anywhere else in the New Testament, while 2/3 of the non-Pauline vocabulary are used by 2nd century Christian writers. Richard Heard, in 1950, had this to say: “The evidence...
What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the...