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If God Falls Like a Tree In the Forest and No One Hears, Does God Exist?

Christopher Tanner

Jan 28, 2015
6 min

If God Falls Like a Tree In the Forest and No One Hears, Does God Exist?

At the beginning of every semester, I tell my students: there is a world of difference between hearing music and listening to it. Emphatically despite the fact that “hear” and “listen” are often used interchangeably in casual speech, as though they were exact synonyms. In fact, they mean two completely different – although not entirely unrelated – things. I’ve spent a goodly portion of my life thinking about language and trying to understand its expressive range, the better

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Imagination and Indoctrination, A Window Into the Mythical Realms of the Mind Including the Dangers

Christopher Tanner

Nov 20, 2014
5 min

Imagination and Indoctrination, A Window Into the Mythical Realms of the Mind Including the Dangers

The most uniquely human feature of our inner life is that dimension of consciousness called “imagination.” The reason it’s called that is because in the exercise of it, our minds create mental images. In some cases, those images have an important shaping influence on our lives; indeed, it is human imagination that has shaped the modern world. This may be illustrated by taking Magritte’s Treachery of Images to what was surely its intended logical conclusion: every painting is

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