The final barrier between the virtual world and the real world was erased last week when a 12-year-old girl, after being mercilessly harassed and bullied online, climbed a platform at…
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There have been religious revolutions (most notably in ancient India, defining the East). There have been philosophical revolutions (most notably in ancient Greece, defining the West). There have been political…
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Perhaps the biggest difference between Christianity and Buddhism is their respective philosophies and attitudes toward suffering. Christianity has enshrined it as ennobling; Buddhism decries it as unnecessary. The Buddhists are…
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Backpacking in the Hetch Hetchy wilderness, you feel both its vastness and sublimity, and a heartbreaking truncation. Magnificent waterfalls plunge over the cliffs, only to fall into a huge reservoir.…
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It’s a gorgeous Sunday afternoon, full of light and color and shadow. Many people are in the quarter-mile wide parkland, which follows a creek as it cuts through the college…
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It’s rather hilarious to hear both conservative and liberal politicians and pundits in the United States say that if Congress doesn’t vote to “punish” Assad for using chemical weapons, it…
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Talked with a woman recently who had major surgery for a large but thankfully benign cyst. The mass was in a very delicate area, and three surgeons wouldn’t even perform…
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A friend writes to express a conundrum many people are grappling with these days, touching on a philosophical inquiry that rather obsessed my youth until I gained sufficient insight into…