Category: Philosophical
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My Answer to a Friend’s Question: When Did the War on Ignorance Become a War on Christianity?
Advertisements When scientific thought and mathematical logic became ways to perceive the world and demonstrate its principles reliably, I think some of those in power, who wanted to preserve increase their power and prosperity, but who also based that power and prosperity on deceiving or exploiting others, saw a danger in too much good thinking,…
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Acceleration
Advertisements I wonder if the acceleration of information and technology and the interactions of both on the human mind affect the ways we perceive and experience time, both at the seconds level and at the years level. It might have to do with changes in the lengths and qualities of our relationships. And it may…
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Deliberate.
Advertisements My dreams are more spiritual and symbolic lately, and this seems to be a deliberate change. She is active, she is moving, she is present, she is, in some sense, something, she is, in some sense, Someone … She is still here, and I am glad, and filled with expectation. [I submit the following,…
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A Declaration of Interdependence
Advertisements When, as the course of Human Events continues, those events include not only greater diversity of ideas and identities and ways of thinking and being, but also greater and stronger feelings of some human groups and organizations about those different ways of thinking and being, a decent respect to the opinions and states of…
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Dare to Ask.
Advertisements The challenging points of view and the tough questions of soundly reasoning citizens can be, in a practical sense, the forms of free speech and open, honest communication most valuable to any system of government, and especially one based on representation and democracy. We do not know where good, new ideas or important questions…
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Love’s Dangerous Waters, and a Cartoon by Man Martin
Advertisements The “folk communities” of decades and centuries past helped young lovers – as well as those who chose or had chosen for them a more solitary path – in navigating the uncharted waters of self-and-other exploration. Our electronic nursemaids and internet communities today are poor substitutes, I’m afraid, when they do not share a…
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Doggerel
Advertisements Carl Sagan and Amazing Randi got too addicted on pure mind candy avoid even skeptical dogmatism reality is STILL pretty DAMN WEIRD (thank you, robert anton wilson) #CSICOPNeverIntendedToPay
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Sheep Among Wolves
Advertisements “Spiritual discernment” as it is practiced by “Christian” authoritarians seems less like sophisticated moral and spiritual wisdom and more like shrewd sociological scam art. The ones truly hearing Divine guidance and sharing real love do seem to go out as sheep among wolves.
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The Addictive Nature of Inspiration/Enlightenment
Advertisements After a month or more of inspiration literally changing my sleep and dream cycles and infusing my life with curious but incredibly pleasant and effective creative energies, I have reached a point that I have seen in books and heard in conversations and with which I am quite familiar: the return to normalcy, more…
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Old Storeroom, New Treasures
Advertisements He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” Matthew 13:52 NIV