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Trump, or When a Clown Settles in a Palace.
Given the the significantly diminished status of the of United States of America today I’m re-posting parts of this recent post by the Occupy Democrats group on Facebook since it puts the finger on much of what is clearly wrong … Continue reading
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A Species in Search of its Soul
The title of this post is based on Swiss psychologists Carl Jung’s “Modern Man in Search of a Soul” , first published in English in 1933. The book explores the psychological development of individuals and humanity as a whole, delving … Continue reading
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire
As reported in the NY Times of December 8, former Republican representative Ms. Cheney responded to comments Mr. Trump made in an interview aired on Sunday on “Meet the Press” on NBC where he had threatened to imprison her and … Continue reading
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Too Late for the Gods and Too Early for Being.
This statement once made by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger about the human condition was one of the few concepts I was able to take away from his writings since not much else he wrote I was able to get … Continue reading
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What Drives Us From Within?
This is a very large question, and depending on how many people you ask, you will get as many answers that might or might not be in agreement with each other. In addition, not everyone has a clear answer, and … Continue reading
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Language and the Natural World
According to linguistic anthropologists Homo sapiens developed a capacity for language between 100,000 and 30,000 years ago. Opinions will vary as to how the capacity developed but it seems likely that it was the result of an ongoing evolutionary process … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, Goethe, language, linguistic entities, mental world, nature of the world, physical world, Schopenhauer, the world as idea
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Homo Ignoramus
In as much as a dog cannot get beyond being a dog in terms of how it behaves and interacts with the world, similarly, when it comes to human beings – Homo sapiens -we cannot get beyond ourselves in the … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution of humanoids, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalis, homo sapiens
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A Defective Species
“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough … Continue reading
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Absurdity and the Meaning of Life
French author and 1957 Nobel laureate Albert Camus once wrote: Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. When I read this the first time many, many years … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdity of life, Albert Camus, meaning, meaninles, Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl
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Crimes against Humanity
Russia’s totally unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and subsequent atrocities committed against that country, including the deliberate bombing of civilian targets causing the complete destruction of towns and villages and thousands of deaths among the Ukrainian population brings to mind earlier … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur “Bomber” Harris, crimes against humanity, Dresden, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, WWII Bombing of civilians
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