
Call me Eliyahu
Tales told by an Elliott
Call me Eliyahu
Tales told by an Elliott
Tales told by an Elliott
Tales told by an Elliott
I was born in 1945 in an Army hospital in the Midwest when the embers of those burned in the gas chambers of Europe were still warm. I was told that my mother's family in Belarus and my father's family in Ukraine had all just been murdered for the crime of being born Jewish. Luckily, my older brother with whom I shared my bedroom was the last Jew to leave.
Nazi Germany with a valid visa
Wanting to fight evil, I became a political activist who was thrown into a jail in Mississippi. While wanting to learn more about the more humane socialistic communes of East Africa, I was charged by a hippopotamus in Uganda. And wanting to find idyllic peace while camping on the Big Island of Hawaii, I was engulfed by a tsunami.
The reader is invited to hitch a ride on this rampage where I challenge barriers, toss boundaries, and flout conventions. After having a moment of ego dissolution, I declared myself enlightened. Only after I realized that this was a false awakening did the space open up to write this book.
In this video, you can see Elliott Isenberg refusing his diploma that the President of Amherst College was trying to hand to him. Before Elliott walked past the President of Amherst, he took a glance at a man on the podium named Robert McNamara -- the Secretary of Defense for Lyndon Baines Johnson -- who was prosecuting the War in Vietnam. You can also see 19 graduates walk out of their graduation ceremony when Robert McNamara name is mentioned as the recipient of an honorary Master's Degree.
The Experience of Evil: A Phenomenological Approach
Lastly, a description is given of how Edmund Husserl's method of "free phantasy variation" (the "ph" being intentional) was used in an attempt to determine what are the essential elements in the experience of evil. After working with this method, this researcher arrived at the following conclusion:
The experience of evil from the viewpoint of the experiencer is a real experience of that which is radically opposed to what the experiencer considers sacred. The experiencer may later explain or interpret what happened, but accepts that in the last analysis the experience is beyond rational comprehension.
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