Two-Lane Contemplations

Two-Lane Contemplations

Reflections

Renaissance and Enlightenment

They sound good, but they really suck.

Jun 18, 2024
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According to Britannica (encyclopedia), “the Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.”

(Fervent, in short, means “intense feeling,” by the way, and note how they put “rebirth” in quotation marks.)

Meanwhile, an enlightened being is liberated…

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