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  • The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun – Evan Selinger – The Atlantic

    Dobbs questions the role of gun culture in steering “certain unhinged or deeply a-moral people toward the sort of violence that has now become so routine that the entire thing seems scripted.” But what about “normal” people? Yes, plenty of people carry guns without incident. Yes, proper gun training can…

  • 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 was wrong. Success is actually the result of failing well…

  • Originally posted on HeartSphere: “To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines…

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  • Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore

    Often, when I hear folks saying that the rich and super rich are job creators, I ask myself: Exaclty to how much of world economics do you actually pay heed? If profits are not invested into foreign ventures they are hidden in foreign tax havens. “These estimates reveal a staggering…

  • Reading Suggestion: Peter Kingsley

    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] Kingsley’s work argues that the writings of the presocratic philosophers…

  • 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 Soul Spelunker: Dostoevsky And Existentialism.

  • 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 ascending for a very long time, but now we are…

  • 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.

  • 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 bums in a perpetually warm climate. But it’s equally impressive…

  • 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 female molesters who prey on boys.  While supporting the Boy…

  • 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 recently with his full-throated defenses of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Pfc.…

  • Whatever, Etc., 0018: Chance & Digression

  • 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 are with who it would most please you to be.

  • 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 intrinsic motivation. Negative emotions are a powerful source of fuel…

  • Desperation as a reconnection with the genuine conditions of existence. Thoughtful.

  • Originally posted on iamadam: Thanks to Adam Roberts @ Knowledge Ecology for posting this one: