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Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of existence? We like to talk to people who answer us, intelligently if possible, but we do talk without needing response or expecting comprehension. Sometimes, the event is the word, the act of speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working-because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Listening Philosophy Prayer

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Doubt Philosophy

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Happiness History

[Based upon the message of nothing new under the sun in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Change Ecclesiastes

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Duty Freedom Humanity Kant Suicide

Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight that after the Book of Job, God never speaks again. God may seem to silence Job, but Job silences God. It is lovely that Job silencing God is part of the text (though likely an accidental order of the books), because it reflects a real change in the real world after the Book of Job came into it.

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Book Of Job Silence

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

~ Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht Laughter
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