Philosophy as a Way of Life
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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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Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very… Continue reading
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New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa
At the age of 24 Dawn was preparing to move to Colorado with her boyfriend when she was overtaken by a manic episode which included severe anxiety, hallucinations, and paranoia. She recalls driving around a hospital parking lot debating whether… Continue reading
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Art and Inner Spaces
“Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s… Continue reading
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Willing Embrace
In order to open up a cipher of the Encompassing Good, our mindfulness must turn to what obtains eternally, hold it as an idea, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will. A paraphrase of… Continue reading
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference… Continue reading
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Surviving the post-employment economy – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
A lawyer. A computer scientist. A military analyst. A teacher. What do these people have in common? They are trained professionals who cannot find full-time jobs. Since 2008, they have been tenuously employed – working one-year contracts, consulting on the… Continue reading
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tilting between dusk and dawn
groggy from napping rainy yet warm Texas dusk feeling out of place The weather has been out of sorts in Denton lately. Tomorrow is Halloween and we have yet to have a real cold snap. The weather has been humid… Continue reading
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almost encounter
fame is a strange thing the talk of many who know relative number 100 rhetoricians 1,000,000 people at large each is a “many” although both really are few compared to the All yesterday I almost met some one whose name… Continue reading
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Dwindling Ignorance
Conservation of energy does not mean preservation of energy. See the latter as opposite to entropy while the former is middle ground betwixt the two. The struggle of conservation we call life; our way through it, love; our outcome, belief.… Continue reading
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Worrying is Preposterous
Brothers and sisters… Terence McKenna Worrying is presposterous… And you know what else… Culture is not your friend! Continue reading
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Takes on Love, Expectation, and Frustration
A superb new film from Joseph Gordon-Levitt with Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Tony Danza. I will say that it is one of the best movies I have ever seen about what it means to love and to learn how… Continue reading
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Textimony 20130918
Be ever mindful good friends: dialog is not a choice between victory or defeat. Authentic communication has many outcomes; winner and loser are not among them. Continue reading
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Daodejing 71
#71* To know your ignorance is most upright. [1] Not knowing but pretending to know is illness. [2] Just consider shortcomings only as shortcomings: thus, no shortcomings. The Sage has no shortcomings because he considers shortcomings as shortcomings: hence, no shortcomings. *Translation… Continue reading
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Textimony 20130911
If we live without regard for harmony, then we shall expend our precious energy waging pointless struggles. And the benefit? Vicious exhaustion. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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▶ Cynicism | YouTube
As a humble anarchocynic, I am a bit ashamed that I have not posted anything on the history of ancient Cyncisim in a while. Please recognize-please RE-COG-NIZE–that the contemporary usage of the term “cynic” is a slap in the face… Continue reading
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