Monday was Labor Day in America, not Memorial or Veteran’s Day, but on my bike ride this morning I saw flag after flag flying from pillar to post on single-family…
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Meditations
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I’ve encountered many highly educated people who cannot tell the difference between an idea and an insight. To my mind, there is no more important distinction that a human being…
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Having things to look forward to is important, a central part of a healthy human life. But living entirely in terms of looking forward to things means never entering a…
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The Net is a favorite punching bag for the dinosaurs of mainstream media. They might as well be punching the air. Who can tell the difference between virtual and reality…
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Fifty years ago Will Durant, wrote, “We humans are the same trousered apes at 2000 miles an hour as when we had legs.” Given the consensus at present that the…
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I’m what is called a “lapsed Catholic.” But it is the Roman Catholic Church that has lapsed into irretrievable corruption. Then again, was it not corrupted from its inception?
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Philosophy needs to break science’s taboo against any form of teleology, which broadly speaking is the study of evidences of intent and design in nature.
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The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake, and reflect off the water with mirror-like sharpness.