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Suffering help
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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The Elusive Search for Certainty
Amen, amen! As I say to my young friends, philosophy is the willingness to embrace uncertainty combined with the will to ask questions. Continue reading
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The World’s First Trillionaire
Originally posted on The Dish: Elliot Hannon wonders who it will be: The two industries are best positioned to take a billionaire to the next level are technology and retail, for the same reason: Both use a global labor pool to make… Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Message 2013
Today, we give thanks. Let our thinking then not turn to things. How can we turn this gift–our being able to think–toward a mere list of the things that we have or that we still want to obtain? Rather, turn… Continue reading
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Baudelaire Contra Photography… and Memes?
With a nod in the direction of Modern Disappointment for the inspiration from a comment on the Idea Channel post I put up a few days ago. …During this lamentable period, a new industry arose which contributed not a little… Continue reading
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Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America | Alternet
Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and… Continue reading
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Art and the Alter-Modern Philosophical Network
If the Society of Control is in part about the delivery of knowledge and information through constantly modulating networks, then maybe the PBS Idea Channel gives us an inkling of how Millennials will philosophize via the interweb. Here are a… Continue reading
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▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
For me, the most interesting issue here is my Facebook, my Twitter, my Youtube and my blogging alter the people who would be in the 100-200 folks that I am capable of knowing and interacting with regularly throughout life. As noted… Continue reading
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Neal Smatresk: The UNLV president fights back over budget cuts – VEGAS INC
I believe this fellow will be the next president at the University of North Texas in Denton. The general belief by many people in our state — and it’s kind of a national belief — is that `those higher ed… Continue reading
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