For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
Life is like getting on a boat that is about to sink. D.T. Suzuki “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity–designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the […]
Folks, we face a problem I’m wondering if you’re willing to think about with me. It’s a real challenge, a challenge to morality posed by recent revelations in logic. It turns out we’re living in a world that doesn’t seem to offer a final logical authority, no highest possible perspective from which we can discriminate […]
IMHO: In my humble opinion–what’s the deal with that? What do we ever say that isn’t our humble opinion? And yet when we declare “It’s raining” do we really mean “I think it’s raining” or is raining a fact, and therefore not a matter of humble opinion? In the acronym IMHO, the H is redundant. […]
I’m grateful for Terry Jones’ Koran-burning intolerance. Right wing rhetoric has escalated to the point where more is better, crossing the line into detachment from reality that should still be recognizable to most Americans as proto-fascism, a self-confirming, untestable ideological faith that demands that reality goes along with it. Terry Jones is an embarrassment the […]
As I’ve mentioned I’m trying to put my finger on what makes me and others intuit that there are two different psychological sub-cultures of humans. Red vs. Blue, Conservative vs. Liberal, Right vs. Left, religious vs. secular–maybe these divisions are symptomatic of the underlying difference, but they don’t seem to get to the bottom of […]
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