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Shimer College and the Future: Text of David Shiner’s Euthyphro lecture
Every Shimer student in the Weekday program reads Plato’s Euthyphro as their first assignment in preparation for Orientation. This is appropriate, because Platonic dialogues such as the Euthyphro are typical of the sorts of texts that work particularly well in… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120822
We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120816
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE Continue reading
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» Sorting Out the Apostle Paul Beyond Good and Evil
This is a blog entry from the first person with which I ever studied philosophy, Ronnie “Doc” Hastings, Ph.D. So, what I am about to do regarding Paul and the origins of Christianity is to claim my birth right as… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120811
If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go. Continue reading
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Textimony 20120808
Youth-Health-Wealth-Power: Such pass through & around as we exchange glances with the ENCOMPASSING GOOD. Be not distracted from the Beloved! Continue reading
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Textimony 20120804a
Stop. Breathe. Let-go. Breathe. NOWHERE. Breathe. Consider. Breathe. NOW/HERE.… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120805
dry horizon dusk crimson passion births star shine cat chasing crickets Continue reading
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The Brilliant Maelstrom of Possibility
Two good posts on our emerging and merging realization of the Comprehensive Life-Breath (SOUL, PSYCHE, ANIMA, ATMAN) by Soul-Spelunker: We are swirling within Souls Maelstrom. Round and round we go in this world, and ever downward. But, as we move… Continue reading
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James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana
Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading
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Textifying to the Encompassing Good
Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to… Continue reading
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Liberation in the 21st Century « Becoming Integral
Report on Liberation Theology in Africa from my good brother Sam Mickey over at Becoming Integral… The good news is that those outdated ideals are changing. As this conference in Ghana shows, young scholars and activists are taking up… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120802
We have all heard old Yoda’s admonition about Fear. Here is my attempt at the alternative: Fortitude is the way to the Light Side. Fortitude leads to patience Patience leads to love. Love leads to letting-go… Not needing, you… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120731
Virtue seeks justice in a symphony of gentle word & simple deed. Vice seeks justification in a cacophony of bitter talk & manic injury. Continue reading
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A Nice Entrée into Object Oriented Ontology
Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews… Continue reading
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Bruno Gets to the Matter @ Soul Spelunker
Please allow me to recommend Matt Dotson’s blog the Soul Spelunker. This new series on Bruno has been fun to read. Giordano Bruno formulated the most impressive theory of matter of any European philosopher, perhaps to this day. Using only… Continue reading
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The Recipe for Success (Not What You Think It Is) « healthdemystified
For the longest time, I thought success was the result of a combo of luck and genes. Success, I thought, was reserved for a select few special people out there – something out of grasp for us mere mortals. I… Continue reading
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