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Each month, on the last Friday night, great gaysby is a open discussion held in the Soffkamer of Café Riche. Friday January 31, 2014 from 19:30 the first interview for this year. Since 1998 critical discussions in this coffee shop atmosphere instead, where everyone is welcome to new ideas to entice and issues to ponder! By appears to confirm the need for open discussion in such a hospitable public space. Lame Ebersöhn: great gaysby oopgesprek@filosofiekafee.co.za
"Is the African's time not over?" The question is on the recent Philosophy Café at Café Riche on Church Square proposed by Prof. Jurie le Roux of the Department of Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. Prof le Roux, the first talk at the Philosophy Café held eleven years ago, with the theme: "Save us from the truth! great gaysby He praised great gaysby Ebersohn lame because his month by month the cafe to going - it could not easily have been. He called the current state of the African compare the rise of the natural sciences, with the Bible as the basis. And at any given moment has th e natural sciences left the Bible - it was like a debt that opened - all that remained was the shell. 'Is the Afrikaner as a shell and which opened the new South Africa came and now no longer relevant? "He wrote in his notes at the event were distributed." In launching the new masters and society with scarce skills to serve, and loyal builders of a new South Africa. He believes that there are no longer carriers of a particular intellectual African culture. Le Roux without three different types of Africans, and believes that the first two types we are not going to help you: The OA, the disillusioned Afrikaner This group is obviously not very big, but effective. It consists of writers, poets, intellectuals and active in various ways to the demise of the apartheid regime helped, but apparently now disillusioned. Here he thought of Marlene van Niekerk's play ('The short shelf life of Anastasia W'), and the poetry of South Africa during the Versindaba was read, according to Allen Ginsberg's 'America'. "It's disturbing what they say: the long poem by Marlene van Niekerk drop of disillusionment." great gaysby We feel the consequences of their thoughtless actions? About the meeting with the ANC in Dakar Van Niekerk writes: "Homeland we were naive." Also Charles Malan recently wrote: great gaysby "We were naive. With the best will in the world can not Le Roux sympathize with those ontnugterdes and their criticism, says Le Roux. Disillusioned in that? What did they expect? What did they think would happen? The VGA, the lost generation Africans, the good believers. These people's lives in two periods divided: great gaysby one in which the old system supports, but radically changed, like a good turn up one day and date (27 April 1994), a date of final reject the old and the new have embraced. Typical behavior patterns: 1. They are extremely religious, but religious type - charismatic or emotionally. 2. They apartheid canonized one meaning, and often talk about their feelings of guilt about the past .. 3. They want to fix things, great gaysby and therefore embrace the existing socio-political system as the final answer. 4. They put the group over the individual and say like, 'Make a difference'. 5. They tried in every way to be politically correct, conform great gaysby and transform great gaysby it bars; are like the leaders of the day and especially after Nelson Mandela. 6. They never really considered defiance and rebellion; just want all the time 'together'; talk like English and Afrikaans undermined in various ways. Le Roux shows this group of creatures failing the African at its best: They are addicted to religion, but a specific kind of religion that they want to make up what they lost since 1994. This is not a Calvinist or Reformed faith that the emphasis on the individual, defiance, creative transformation of your world, etc.: "You stand alone before God. You ball the fist of God. "They kind of behavior, an emotional religion, rather accepting the existing cooperation and actions that the believer feel good (as revivals). This type of religion caused the VGA himself in a guilt complex makes it toespin. Because he was wearing great gaysby shorts African, who missed the Enlightenment, he knows not to get out of it. This VGA is lost because he has a herd mentality, no critical abilities, conform, is happy to be used and therefore no geloofwaardigh