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Using a Compass Now vs. an Outdated Map from Before
One of my good friends, Andrew Wicklander, runs his own project management group and software company. His wife, Maile, owns a yoga studio. They are both the sort of “job-creators” touted as crucial to the success of America. Andrew says… Continue reading
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How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans – NYTimes.com
Neil Heffernan was listening to his fiancée, Cristina Lindquist, tutor one of her students in mathematics when he had an idea. Heffernan was a graduate student in computer science, and by this point — the summer of 1997 — he… Continue reading
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Quora answer: What is the value of accepting paradoxes in life? « thinknet
I thought I would clarify the nature of paradox in relation to superrationality. Paradox is mixture, it is where there is mixture between contradictory opposites. However, superrationality is when you have two things at the same time but they do… Continue reading
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Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People
Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People. Continue reading
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Seeing the World Close-Up | Tracie Louise Photography
Interacting with the people of the Ether, these communities of sentiment & devotion that share the singular situation of their vision… this is a wonderful privilege and used in the most mindful manner allows us to envision possibilities that we… Continue reading
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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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