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Dickens Fellowship Meets in Phillips
“Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!” ”¦ Charles Dickens Don”'t put off enjoyment for another day of a good conversation about the writing and musings of a great writer of the past; Charles Dickens. A new Dickens book club began in October reading and discussing Dicken”'s novel The Old Curiosity Shop and new people are still welcome at the next meeting November 11th, 7 PM to 9 PM and following second Mondays of each month. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels published in his weekly serial Master Humphrey”'s Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed as a separate book in 1841. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. This early novel is filled with activities of all kinds””eating and drinking, meeting and talking, [...]
Who Should We Vote For?
By Peter Molenaar For the fun of it, I”'d like readers to take a Wikipedia adventure. Start with the 17th century philosopher named Baruch Spinoza. Follow the links. A history of philosophy and theology will be revealed. For entertainment, this course almost competes with post season baseball. Trust me. As it happened, owing to his contemplative prescience, our good Spinoza found matter and mind to be of one and the same substance. He was then a ”˜monist”' as opposed to a mind-body ”˜dualist”'. In his view, God and nature are pantheistically synonymous. However, in my view: 1.) ”˜Matter”' is all that exists independent of and outside of consciousness 2.) Matter is primary, i.e., consciousness is a product of the evolution of matter 3.) Matter is ”˜dialectical”', i.e., matter exists in motion as a unity of opposing forces. 4.) The content of consciousness is a more or less “approximate reflection” of objective [...]
