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Sapienism Celebrates its Second Anniversary!

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Dec 24, 20197 min read

Can We Imagine Orpheus Happy?

What can the death-defying Sisyphus and Orpheus teach us? Sisyphus is a story of liberty lost, Orpheus of freedom, and love, tested.

Dec 18, 20196 min read

Have you Heart?

Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.

Nov 23, 20198 min read

The Rise and Hopeful Fall of BBism

Israel undergoes an unprecedented crisis… How has it come to this, and what does it say about Israel, politics, and the human condition?

Nov 20, 20194 min read

The Trials of Betrayal

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Nov 19, 20193 min read

Bullying: Why it works? How can we fight it?

What a bully does best is to tap straight into these fears and insecurities. Bullies sense these weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, and attack

Nov 4, 201911 min read

Margaret, an Autumn Tale

What if you involuntarily caused the death of someone? How far would you go to repair your mistake? To ease your conscience? To be...

Oct 23, 20193 min read

I See You

(or: The Mind's I-I) A slightly elaborated comment to Shirley's What Do You See?, a very fine illustration of freedom (choice) and...

Oct 21, 20194 min read

What Do You See?

Once upon a time there was a duck. A duck that looked like a rabbit. Or a rabbit that looked like a duck. Either way, here was a duck...

Dec 31, 201810 min read

Love Life&Death: Klimt and Schiele

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Dec 27, 20182 min read

Sapienism Celebrates First Anniversary

the longest night, the shortest day, of 2017 – birthing Sapienism, long after its conception

Dec 15, 20184 min read

Do we need God to become Human?

We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...