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Philosophy & Meaning

2 days ago2d

Posted by Ryo1

Mmm... This is deep... From 'Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks' which were first published in 1956: The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by puff

For me, fascism is quite easy to define. It is a marriage between government and the corporate world. When government represents corporate interest rather than the interest of the people. 20th century didn't really have global corporations but we ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by FrostyJim

...the devine plan?

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by Jolanta

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine

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3 days ago3d

Posted by snytiger6

The happiness of your life depends on ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by snytiger6

An intelligent modification of the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) serenity prayer...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by snytiger6

The high minded man...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 days ago3d

Posted by snytiger6

There is only one way to happiness...

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Philosophy & Meaning

4 days ago4d

Posted by 1patriot

Yes i would say!

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Philosophy & Meaning

4 days ago4d

Posted by Buck

Mommy!!!!?!!!😢

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Philosophy & Meaning

6 days ago6d

Posted by ronnie40356

I agree. No preachers allowed at my funeral, bring a physicist

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by PaddyO

Toll or toil everything has a price. An equitable system for all would be nice. Imagine a new humanist cooperation. That will be humanities liberation. No anger, no angst, meaningful work for everyone to do. You might be skeptical but I believe ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by PaddyO

All this knowledge in one's hand comes with certain societal demands. Quit bullshiting, speculating, and exaggerating. Electronic footprints speak volumes about what you are up to. Being honest and kind is the least you can do.. Deadly, ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

Quite disappointed in Elon Musk, always thought he was a man of principal, willing to go against the flow of popular opinion to stand for what he believed was right. Now, he has become a "useful idiot" for Zionism. I will tell you why. After ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by snytiger6

If you feel pain you're alive ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by snytiger6

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

Owen Jones was invited by the IDF to see a screening of Hamas atrocities which occurred on Oct 7th. We should all be human and I think this guy, who comes under a lot of criticism, is largely spot on and has his head screwed on right. However, I do ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by Flyingsaucesir

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphysically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble." -- Joseph Campbell

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

I do love irony. Netanyahu's Lukid party have done everything in their power to deny Palestinians a state of their own, even funding Hamas away from a pure terrorist outfit (which they most definitely have been bombing disco's etc), to become the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by Thibaud70

Identity politics and intersectionality come with the insidious assumption that all members of a particular group think alike. Opinions come to be seen as an extension of a person’s race, gender or sexuality rather than a carefully considered ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

Interview with disillusioned IDF soldier, over occupation, from 5 years ago.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by Thibaud70

In the literature about cultural appropriation, philosophers have tried to explain the nature of the harm that is involved. Some claim that it is a form of exploitation, stealing the rightful intellectual property of a marginalized group for the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by augimmun

I saw a posting not too long ago, saying that it was hard to figure out what was true these days, with all the wild claims being thrown around. I think the real challenge is not being able to sort through the facts and logic, and figuring out what is...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by Thibaud70

Is 'woke' a kind of Cultural Marxism?

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 week ago1w

Posted by puff

Israel fires more missiles into Syria, report from the Jerusalem Post. The reason I have put this here is Netanyahu/ IDF seem intent on expanding to a regional war. Israel has also warned the UN of this Why would ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by FvckY0u

We hold onto the idea that companies and industries, much like family and friends, have our best interests at heart. However, in our capitalist system, the primary drive for every company and industry is to separate you from your money—no ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by 1patriot

this guy nails it!

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Ryo1

What To Do When Your Shithead Teen Discovers Nietzsche 😆 It happened again. You had an argument with your child. But this time, something was different. Instead of the usual concise vitriol from them like “I hate you” and “I can’t wait ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Thibaud70

That anger should belong to the noble parts of the soul goes back to Plato. He distinguishes between the cognizing part, the desiring part and the angry part of the soul. The thymos, as it is called in ancient Greek, is responsible for the striving ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by FvckY0u

What if the elites knew how to control everyone and had the power to do so? What would you do then? Just stay controlled?

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Philosophy & Meaning

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by 1patriot

It's been a plan for a well

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by puff

History does repeat. Love irony. During Covid, if you were strongly against mandates you were automatically antivax. With the Palestinian cause, if you are strongly against Israeli's excessive military response in Gaza you are automatically ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by Thibaud70

How to define stupidity?

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by puff

An interesting legal case in the UK currently claiming the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was "defective". The reason I have posted this is to illustrate the singular stance that solves all of this; Consent for medical treatment. Common law over the ages...

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Philosophy & Meaning

3 weeks ago3w

Posted by FvckY0u

What is a human capable of doing in one hour, one day, one week, one year? What are a group of humans capable of doing? Not working under any system other than a shared goal. Self organizing, self governing. Could we actually be civilized? ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Castlepaloma

My youth must have been the happy days, if one can handle the odd physical fight, and parents wonder why we needed feelings.and don't trust people over age 30. It was the 90s when people felt like they were slowly turning into vombies and Robots. ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

Bertrand Russel on religion...

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1 month ago1m

Posted by FrostyJim

Works for me...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

We admit that we are like apes...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

Funny how Iran is being threatened with Armageddon if they get involved with Hamas and Israel over Gaza. Then little olde Yemen, courtesy of the Houthis, send a few missiles and drones successfully into Israel and nothing happens.

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

All war is a symptom of man's failure...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Paganpaddy

Joi de vie Joi de vie slips through my hands like grains of sand. Life gets tough when everything is bland. Modern society endurance contest. No prize at the end, just the privilege of having a run. We all have things that help us endure. Venial ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by FvckY0u

Does time sometimes seem ubiquitous?

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1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

LINKStephen Fry Passionately Argues the Catholic Church is NOT a Force for Good | Intelligence Squared - YouTube

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

Things are not always as they seem...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

Religions survive because...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

Netanyahu called Palestinians "Amalekites", which I had to look up: "The Amalekites were a people of the Negev and adjoining desert that were a hereditary enemy of Israel from wilderness times to the early monarchy. Amalek, a son of Esau's son ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

POLLDoes the UN need reforming? The UN needs reforming is the call from Africa and I totally agree. The power of veto has to go. This became very clear to me with the 51 missiles which were sent into Syria by the UK, France and the US after an alleged ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Thibaud70

>>>> Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by puff

Poor boy pmsl

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

Hate has caused a lot of problems...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by Thibaud70

Here is a typical text written by a white supremacist: "Everything we have before us today in the way of human civilization, the products of art, science and technology, is almost exclusively the fruit of the creative activity of the Aryans. This ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

1 month ago1m

Posted by snytiger6

An evil man will...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 22Oct 22

Posted by Thibaud70

"Postcolonial studies" is the name of a discipline that has become enormously popular at American universities in recent years, not without irony because the era of colonialism ended in the 1960s and apartheid was abolished in South Africa in the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 20Oct 20

Posted by puff

I hope people understand how serious this is. "Meme-maker Douglass Mackey was sentenced in New York criminal court on Wednesday after a March conviction for conspiracy against rights, ie election interference, over memes he created during the 2016 ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 20Oct 20

Posted by puff

If you like sarcasm, this guy is oozing it. Piers Morgan is his usual buffoon self. Overall entertaining. I have also heard from other sources about a possible outcome (by design?) being to push Palestinians out of Gaza and into the Sinai into ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 19Oct 19

Posted by Jolanta

Storms make oaks take deeper roots. George Herbert.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 17Oct 17

Posted by puff

Over the weekend Australia held a referendum which failed to pass. The referendum proposed that a permanent body be formed, to be enshrined in our constitution, that would allow our indigenous population to have direct access to our parliament so ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 17Oct 17

Posted by puff

Interesting interview with one who has lived the history of the creation of Israel. An interview recorded 2 years ago, quite relevant today. "It's not what you know, it's what you could know if you wanted to find out" Talking about Israel and Gaza....

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 15Oct 15

Posted by FvckY0u

Your comparison between Jesus Christ and Nikola Tesla is intriguing and highlights the impact both figures had on their respective fields. Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is the central figure of Christianity, believed by Christians to be the Son of God ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 15Oct 15

Posted by 1patriot

MINI SERIES | FALL OF BABYLON

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 13Oct 13

Posted by FvckY0u

Who told you that calculus or whatever subject is more important than spirituality? Who told you that a primary school education in the USA is the best there is? Who told you all the things you hold to be true? Who told you that? Who told them ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 11Oct 11

Posted by Ryo1

I read this newsletter with interest. It is about Luxury Beliefs which is a relatively new word coined by R. Henderson. In the form of wealth or high status, the yearning for distinction is found among humans. When they find it isn't enough that ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 11Oct 11

Posted by FrostyJim

...not sure it is worth 2 cents?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 8Oct 8

Posted by FrostyJim

It's the meaning that counts...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 5Oct 5

Posted by 1patriot

KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov's CHILLING Warning to America!!! interview in 1984 brain washing of the masses!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 4Oct 4

Posted by racocn8

Life is an emergent property of matter. Consciousness is an emergent property of life. Morality is an emergent property of consciousness.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Oct 2Oct 2

Posted by Thibaud70

Identity politics is the oldest form of politics and at the same time the currently most successful . It is the oldest form of politics , because it binds the individual interest to a group identity and forms a robust weapon out of it . From the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 30Sep 30

Posted by Ryo1

Jean-Paul Sartre admits he mostly invented existentialism to look cool in front of girls. 😆 Existential Comics See the enlarged image here:

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Sep 29Sep 29

Posted by FrostyJim

...you just can't make this sh!t up?

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Sep 29Sep 29

Posted by TheoryNumber3

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 26Sep 26

Posted by Thibaud70

The regressive tendency of a policy that makes the position of victimhood the motor of political action thus consists in the fact that it deals with an emotion (i.e. feeling offended) that is easy to arouse but very difficult to contain. The victim...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 25Sep 25

Posted by FvckY0u

Like giving candy to a baby only the baby will eventually get sick and refuse it.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 25Sep 25

Posted by 1patriot

This my reply to Flyingsaucesir with regards to Darwin theory is settled science I charge $130 per hour so your advise would be meaning less and it actually is meaning less. I am so happy i never took any of your tutoring class as i would failed ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 24Sep 24

Posted by FrostyJim

...good luck with that?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23Sep 23

Posted by puff

Analysis oF the Ukraine war

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23Sep 23

Posted by puff

There is always talk about how a Free media is important For vibrant democracies as it holds government power to account. Media is no longer Free when a Few own all, but luckily today we have many podcasts etc reporting and analysing what the Few ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 23Sep 23

Posted by puff

Nothing really new about LGBTQ+++, just how society reacts. Are people more accepting now? Not so sure, seems to me people were more happy to live and let live back then, rather than demanding acceptance and equal status in society.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 20Sep 20

Posted by FvckY0u

I don't think highly of skeptics. Being skeptical is different than being a skeptic. Being skeptical is necessary in many ways. Being a skeptic means that is their lot in life. To be skeptical but also in not being wrong. You ever met a good ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 19Sep 19

Posted by DragonDust

What is a god/s

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 18Sep 18

Posted by MitchAlla

TShirt and Coffee Mug available on Etsy!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 17Sep 17

Posted by 1patriot

What would you do? Kicked out of the university lecture Subject: Legal studies. First lecture. The professor enters the lecture hall.He looks around. "You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?" he asks a student. "My name is Sandra" ...

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Sep 17Sep 17

Posted by puff

This is tied up with indoctrination into a doctrine. Doctrine is for groups and individuals need to conform in order to join.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 16Sep 16

Posted by puff

Here's an interview with the Shaman from the Jan 6th events at the Capital in Washington. It's a long interview but I found it interesting. This guy is articulate and I like the way he thinks; out of the box whilst also suggesting solutions. He is ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 16Sep 16

Posted by puff

A reminder of the Nuremburg Code. Consent consent consent Consent which means informed, freely given without coercion. Applies for ALL medical treatment eg vaccinations and abortions. Accept this principal and respect others wishes, even if you ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 14Sep 14

Posted by Unity

Success

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Sep 14Sep 14

Posted by FrostyJim

...how did I get here?

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 12Sep 12

Posted by Kurty

NumerologyBREAKDOWN

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 11Sep 11

Posted by 1patriot

This one picture explains flat earth better than any words can. But for those who don’t get it, I’ll explain in tedious verbal detail below. I used to ski every winter and one of my favorite mountains is Whistler / Blackcomb. At Whistler the ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 9Sep 9

Posted by FvckY0u

How do you handle it when information comes to you? You are just sitting quietly about or going about your daily activities and something just comes to you. Maybe it's in a dream. What do you do? How do you process that? How do you integrate ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 9Sep 9

Posted by Archeus_Lore

Another interesting chat session with Aldous Huxley, ChatGPT, and me. Analyse this: The larger an hierarchical organization is, the more intense is the competition to occupy positions of benefit within that organization, which are power positions. ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 7Sep 7

Posted by Thibaud70

The ancient Athenian was committed to the assembly of the polis, the medieval Christian to his church, and the twentieth-century factory worker to his trade union and working man’s club. All of them found their purpose and well-being by being ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 3Sep 3

Posted by FrostyJim

“The trouble with the rat race is, even if you win you’re still a rat!” - Lily Tomlin!!

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 28Aug 28

Posted by barjoe

LINKNeil deGrasse Tyson's Dream

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 27Aug 27

Posted by Jolanta

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. Robert. A. Heinlein.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 23Aug 23

Posted by Funtobewith200

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 21Aug 21

Posted by Funtobewith200

One must state it plainly. Religious comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody had the smallest idea what was going on.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 19Aug 19

Posted by SpikeTalon

An interesting albeit somewhat lengthy read on transhumanism. Like it or not, transhumanism has arrived, and technology is advancing to a point where that stuff is no longer mere science fiction, it's the reality we all are living in. The case for ...

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