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Kool-Aid didn’t kill those people. Transference and suggestibility killed those people. In October of 1978, surrounded by hundreds of his...
Are we all “dittoheads” to some ideology? Wikipedia informs me that “dittoheads” are “faithful listeners to The Rush Limbaugh Show. Limbaugh...
I use the standard font that I use on every forum and that font is big and bold. For some reason this forum turns that font and all fonts that I...
How does one begin a disinterested intellectual life? While reading a book about the civil war between North and South Vietnam and the American...
In the summer of 48 my older brother told me that if I wanted to play high school football I had to ‘get ready’. In his terms, ‘getting ready’...
Is there a path to wisdom? How can I know what I do not know? How can I trace that boundary between knowledge and ignorance? In the dialogue...
Beauty and morality are species of values. George Santayana says that “all values must be ultimately intrinsicâ€. He adds that the good,...
What value do you navigate by? It appears to me that we sapiens need a “North Star†upon which to fix our voyage. We need a reference point...
Is disinterest like apathy? Says Goethe; “the little that is done seems nothing when we look forward and see how much we have yet to doâ€....
We think peimarily in images and not in language. This is a major error in traditional philosophy and in common sense.
What is a Basic-Level Category? Consider the category hierarchies: {furniture--chair-rocker} and {vehicle--car-sedan}. The middle...
Can I Think of Me? In his book “The Birth of Meaning†Ernest Becker informs me that Kant informed the world two centuries ago that an infant...
How can we find that resonant synchronization? I am of the opinion that we all have a number of personal resonances (talents?) that if...
How is body and mind one? “It is our organic flesh and blood, our structural bones, the ancient rhythms of our internal organs, and the...
A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made...
What would Socrates do? Socrates sought to save Athenian society by making it self-critical. Imagine that you and many other colorblind people...
I have often wondered what the world would be like if adults had the energy level I see constantly displayed by children at play. Perhaps we see...
Isn't our financial crisis fair warning? To the self-actualizing self-learner who has studied briefly the high points in human history the...
Framing: Thug, Terrorist, Pirate, any Difference? I have been reading some articles about the problem of introducing to the public an idea about...
The present question regarding the nature and morality of torture offers us an excellent opportunity to advance the level of sophistication of our...