Treasure found on Snark Hunt
Sometimes what you see is what you get…
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Free Choice Is Neither
Could I ? Should I ? Would I ? . . . Did I ?
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Make America Great Again
For the last two decades, I have made it a habit to read Pericles’ Funeral Oration on Memorial Day. The last few years, I’ve cried more than usual. From Thucydides History of the Pelopenisian War The Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost to those who had fallen in war. It was a custom
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5 ways of knowing
I like to think of my epistemology as an enlightened form of Natural Realism. It is patterned on the evolution of our brains. Currently, I have identified five ways of knowing. Each builds on its predecessor.
Tea for two
I often make reference to sampling the readings and communing in the Collective Unconscious. Pour a cup of tea, and let’s talk about that. The Collective Unconscious. I know it sounds silly/sappy/stupid (toss-out any adjective invective); I get it. People use the term Collective Unconscious with a mystical sense– experiencing the archetypes, plugging in to
BOREDOM
…excerpts from Bertrand Russell’s 1930 classic The Conquest of Happiness, in a chapter titled “Boredom and Excitement”
Define This Word…
Death of the Author is a theoretical construct from mid-20th Century literary criticism, that holds that neither an author’s life story nor her intent, should hold any special weight in determining an interpretation of her writing… To say the least, I am no fan of the “theoretical construct” known as Death of the Author. Granted, it is widely
Alice, when she’s 10 ft tall!
The workings of our minds have long been a mystery to us. Most of what we know about our brains comes from seeing what happens when they brake. We know several reasons we believe we are someone.
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