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  • Reading Suggestion: Peter Kingsley

    One of the nice things about being an amateur philosopher is that I can recommend publicly to folks things that my professional philosopher friends would never recommend in an open forum even if it is something they happen to enjoy reading. [Peter]… Continue reading

    Reading Suggestion: Peter Kingsley

  • Soul Spelunker: Dostoevsky And Existentialism

    Existentialism was a movement that took place in philosophy after the Second World War, but its roots go back many centuries. It was a break with the Enlightenment mindset which attempted to bring mankind to a state of perfection… via… Continue reading

  • Soul Spelunker: The Democratization of Imagination

    Tom Cheetham is very profound. His phrase, “the democratization of imagination” is exactly what we are experiencing, and what I have been recently writing about. Imagining the Anima Mundi causes one to think along these lines. Western culture has been… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120720

    At the limit we engage beginning & ending. At the boundary we embrace true concern & eschew false security. Now/here on the edge: nowhere. Continue reading

  • The Drama of Existentialism – NYTimes.com

    I am always impressed by the frisson in my class when students realize that there’s a sense in which Sartre is right: they could, right now, get up, leave the classroom, drop out of school, and go live as beach… Continue reading

  • Mike Huckabee & Ignorance

    Newsflash: This is an example of ignorance par excellence. Gay people are not all child molesters. And child molesters who happen to be attracted to the same gender are actually out numbered by male molesters who prey on girls and… Continue reading

  • Glenn Greenwald Leaves Salon for the Guardian | The Wrap Media

    Good luck at the Guardian Glenn. I look forward to seeing the great things you will do there. Keep the faith and stick to your guns! Indeed, the former New York prosecutor has led multiple charges with his stories, most… Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc., 0018: Chance & Digression

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  • I would say healhdemystified is firing in all cylinders this week. “Lifestyle change” is one of those inauthentic or bad faith phrases. Start low, go slow… you will get there much more likely than attempting to exchange all-at-once who you… Continue reading

  • Again, the five boundary situations–chance, suffering, struggle, regret, & death–have a “negative” connotation, but they are actually positive constitutive factors of possible Existenz. “By avoiding negative emotions, we’re actually doing ourselves a disservice. We are ignoring a powerful source of… Continue reading