I knew this girl...

  • March 23, 2003
  • James Skemp
I knew this girl she had hair like the sun... Let me tell you boy we had us some fun...   But the days got short and one day away she went... It seemed liked so long But 'twas merely a moment...   This beautiful girl, together in the sun, having our fun She was with me for such a short time And when she was gone, I realized, that it was but a moment, a point in time.

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Religion and Medieval Philosophy: Textual Analysis Paper 1

  • March 13, 2003
  • James Skemp
The following is a paper written for a Religion and Medieval Philosophy course. Every time I heard someone speak of scholasticism I never quite knew what they meant. Having heard of it in many classes in the philosophy of religion ‘genera’, I was convinced that it was something that refers to philosophers who dealt with the philosophy of religion, and specifically in the time period of the medieval era – especially around the years of St Thomas Aquinas and St Augustine.

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Just a typical day...

  • March 12, 2003
  • James Skemp
Just a typical day Like any other A single ray   Oh "I wish I may I wish I might..." A single thought   "Getta outta my way You little creep" A single passing   "Oh may I say You know my mind" A single knock

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I fell in love with you...

  • March 12, 2003
  • James Skemp
I fell in love with you, but you didn't know. I thought every night of you, but every night you slept well. I cried when I put my mind on you, but every day it got a little better. I listen to the bands and see you, but more and more you fade. I think I was in love with you, but were you a passing phase... I thought there was more to you, but one can never really tell.

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I wish I had a dime...

  • March 10, 2003
  • James Skemp
I wish I had a dime For every time I cried I wish I had a nickel For every damn pickle   Life can be long It's like that song With the 'bong' at the end By the guy with no friend   Tra lee tra la Tro lo tro da   In the deeps, No one weeps

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Ma ma can't you see the rain...

  • March 3, 2003
  • James Skemp
Ma ma can't you see the rain Ma ma can't you see the rain Fall - in' on me   Rain falls like snow, Hard to see the miles before me. So to are the miles behind, but experiences are hard to kill...

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Domination holds us down

  • February 25, 2003
  • James Skemp
Domination holds us down and persecution does the same Holding us down, keeping us down Can't get up from the underground...   Under the ground, deep down below the dirt can be as high as the clouds If one can't see the sky, do they know it's there?

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Are There Pictures Before Me...

  • February 25, 2003
  • James Skemp
Are there pictures before me showing me the past? Only memories, left to me.   Are there writings before me telling me the past? Only memories, left to me.   Feelings and thoughts Imaginings and remembrances Only memories, left to me.   Nothing concrete, nothing to touch Save with my mind, and it's intangible grasp   Realty in a perspective touched by one who's changed Inside or out, one knows not.

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Religion and Medieval Philosophy: Text Analysis 2

  • February 23, 2003
  • James Skemp
This paper was written for a Religion and Medieval Philosophy course. The material of this text analysis will be Peter Abailard and his work The Glosses of Peter Abailard on Porphyry. As Abailard tells us, “There are then three questions, as Boethius says, secret and very useful and tried by not a few philosophers, but solved by few. The first is as follows, namely, whether genera and species subsist or are placed in the naked understandings alone, etc.

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The Problems of Perception and Thought as Discussed by Michael Corrado

  • February 16, 2003
  • James Skemp
In Michael Corrado’s Analytic Tradition in Philosophy: Background and Issues, we are introduced to the analytical tradition in a way that has not been attempted since the time of this book. Instead of bundling philosophical works into an anthology Corrado attempts to explain what the fundamental characteristics are that tie these thinkers together. For this paper, I focus solely on the problems of perception and thought in the earlier analytic tradition, as Corrado discusses in this work, particularly on the first part, in which he discusses the background of the tradition – and therefore the earlier tradition.

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