Situatedness
DASEIN, Being-here, openness, having to be open, connectedness
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Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier
Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier. 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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Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence
My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and… Continue reading
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A Public Soul in Stasis: Ayn Rand vs. the Pope – Salon.com
The Greek word for “civil war” is stasis. While that might seem strange to them modern ear, it actually makes sense. Stasis is achieved when two or more great forces bring a thing/process to a halt. Much of our public… Continue reading
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Postal Savings Banks… An Important Idea
Right now, there are few ways for poor people to even try to save what little money they have. It is often hard to get an account, and even if you do, fees will be too high or interest too… Continue reading
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A 2010 Study: Most Americans want wealth distribution similar to Sweden | The Raw Story
The image in most people’s minds about wealth distribution is out of sync with reality. Moreover, despite so much information that deals with the causes & effects of wealth inequality, most folks do not seem to understand why there is… Continue reading
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Gentle smile concern unlocking
Sacred sage, cedar, pine, & sandalwood burn atop bed of sea salt covered thick with yesterday’s ash. Perfumes caressing apartment corners, thin invocations swirl about locked door. Outside, charcoal clouds hide the summer sun– that absentee landlord still draining us… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120804
Fairness is but one facet of Justice… Obsess on this alone & you forget such alternatives as Mercifulness without which Justice becomes certain tyranny. Continue reading
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Are the Boomers Screwing the Millennials? | Rightly Understood | Big Think
Nice piece very much in line with many things I have been saying over the last two years. It is bleak, certainly bleaker than the way generational expert Neil Howe sees things turning out. Thanks to my friend Heather Davis… Continue reading
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I would say, “The world as seen by Boomers”…
…rather than “Republicans” since this is about a pseudo-nostalgia with a great penchant for creative memory. However, I want to be clear that I am not committing the fallacy of “equal time.” I am a progressive leaning independent who sees… Continue reading
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Textimony 20120729
Wander not in paranoid conspiracies for position nor trample others in phantasms of privilege. Sow universal misery; reap the whirlwind. Continue reading
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Boomerang Kids Have Some Rules For Mom And Dad
The second wave of Gen-X, the overlap Gen-Y, and the first wave of Millenials find themselves in the same ship of fools set adrift by Boomers & first-wave Gen-Xers for whom the “system” worked. This is not something that the… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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