There has yet to be an adequate philosophy of evil, much less a scientific explanation of it. The subject is too important, and urgent, to be left to religions and…
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The most difficult falsehoods to uncover are those that are wrapped in a truth.
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The cliché, ‘being ahead of one’s time’ is easy to say, and tedious to hear. But Robinson Jeffers was truly a poet ahead of his time. Yet his solution to…
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A reader asks, “What does it mean to enter the house of death during meditation?” She wants to know, “Is it really possible to understand and transcend death while fully…
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Though the rain didn’t begin until nearly 10 this morning, by 3 pm the parkland had already returned to its creatures. A light drizzle, imperceptible in the wood, fell as…
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On April 13th, Georgia executed Kenneth Fults, who pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his 19-year-old neighbor, Cathy Bounds. One juror told an investigator, “Once he pled guilty, I knew…
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“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture…
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Every child needs to be taught that the map is not the territory, and the word is not the thing. Unfortunately, most adults have never learned it.