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POPSMono Lake: Home To The Strange Microbe GFAJ-1 - Max Muller (Born Dec. 6, 1823), Kierkegaard, Gandhi, & Dalai Lama
via apod.nasa.gov Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. - Alasdair Gray http://themodernword.com The pen is the tongue of the mind. - Horace http://brainyquote.com I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. - Steven Wright (Born December 6, 1955) http://thinkexist.com No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.goodreads.com/quotes Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde http://www.notable-quotes.com Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln http://www.quotesdaddy.com What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder; Love is a poignant and accustomed pain. It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thund
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POPSEffing the Ineffable <<<Aquinas obeyed the injunction of Wittgenstein, whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concludes with the proposition: “that whereof we cannot speak we must consign to silence.”,,,,,, But a question troubles me as I am sure it troubles you. What do our moments of revelation have to do with the ultimate questions? When science comes to a halt, at those principles and conditions from which explanation begins, does the view from that window supply what science lacks? Do our moments of revelation point to the cause of the world? When I don’t think about it, the answer seems clear. Yes, there is more to the world than the system of causes, for the world has a meaning and that meaning is revealed. But no, there is no path, not even this one, to the cause of the world: for that whereof we cannot speak, we must consign to silence — as Aquinas did.>>> (from article)
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POPSD. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard The Danish philosopher and theologian, Soren Kierkegaard, is amongst some of my favorite authors of all time. His work is excellent, his gift for writing is a gift from God. I recommend reading his theological / spiritual / religious works. They are to die for, literally.
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POPSThe Myth of Progress <<<Solitude is inimical to power, shuns power, seeks its own progress. A progress that is an illusion, enhancing the few and fooling the masses, is for the solitary the opposite of progress, for it does not consult nature or quiet the mind in order to begin reconsturcting the self. But the theory of progress is an old device masking power, and concealing what the 20th century creative souls — and those brave 19th century figures like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche — unmasked as lies about human nature. What is the alternative to progress for the grand institutions of today? It is a devolution to simplicity, to individuals and small social units, to natural industry and exchange, to a relationship to nature based on value and not exploitation or power. The alternative to progress is a devolution of artificial wealth, privilege, and legitimacy.
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POPSSicknesses Unto Death: extreme and ordinary madness <<<And in the middle of the spectrum lies the grand majority of society's normal, those whom Kierkegaard calls the "philistines." The philistines are those whom one observer calls the "normal neurotics," whom Freud considered repressed by their psyches for their own good because they are not capable of too much reality. They are easily duped by the powerful to do their bidding in relative silence, to pursue their pleasures in stupefying doses, to contribute to society, that great edifice of somnolence and enslavement about which Nietzsche railed. The philistines walk about in "fictitious health," says Kierkegaard, alluding to their contentment with conventional norms, tastes, and values.>>>
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POPSHistoric Figures That Were Celibate He spent years inventing things he never got credit for, like the light bulb and radio, and even believed he could control the weather. He also felt that sex was a drain on creativity and completely pushed aside any woman that was interested in him. Sarah Bernhardt, a famous actress, tried her hardest to woo him but he considered her to be little more than a distraction from inventing a death ray. When asked about marriage, he replied: “I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
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POPSFideism I only learned about this "school of thought" recently ;) Just passin on a link
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POPSThe Courage to Be Useful overview of Tillich's The Courage to Be, supported by general account of existential approaches to anxiety of non-being, including Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
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POPSTo be Interesting and Interested Let Go of Mind <<<The practice of mindfulness – in its psychologically Buddhist sense – has been described as a kind of detachment, dis-identification, i.e. dis-interest from one’s own thoughts, which, as Snelling points out in his “Buddhist Handbook,” are “not us” (3). Notice Snelling's italics: our thougths are "not us." This Buddhist proposition that we are not our thoughts would imply that any real communication beetwen us (and not between our respective fleeting states of mind) would have to be non-verbal... So, then, it would seem that in order for us to show inter-est in others’ thoughts, for us to inter-exist, we need to lose interest in our own thoughts. To co-exist, it seems, we need to never mind our own minds. With no thoughts to stand in the way of understanding, there is nothing between us, there are no gaps of misunderstanding to bridge…>>>
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POPSMore Kierkegaard irony Thank, abailart, for your earlier Kierkegaard clip! He has a number of fascinating ideas which make you stop and think and reflect a while. /e
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