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Category Archives: Philosophy
what you’re telling is just a story
When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then … Continue reading
Commentary: TPH Podcasts from 2021-03-21 / Roshi Norma Wong
I’m way, WAY behind on my podcasts. I don’t have a drive any more and I miss my podcasts. I’m experimenting with listening to them during the day but it’s always been really hard for me to listen while I … Continue reading
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Tagged 10%-Happier, commentary, meditation, Podcast
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The Failures of Capitalism
OpenCulture.com: Economics 101 by Ray Dalio Dalio himself isn’t setting out to build a worker’s paradise or to make financiers like himself obsolete, but he does have some trenchant thoughts on capitalism’s failures—and they are many, in his estimation. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Philosophy, Society
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You can’t have freedom without safety
This showed up in my RSS feed: An LA gallery is selling “Molotov cocktails” from a vending machine. It included an image of a vending machine that sells fake molotov cocktails with a slogan on the side: Freedom not safety … Continue reading
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Climbing the Horseshoe
Yep, this. Climbing the Horseshoe Assholes on the left and right ruining it for all the sensible people.
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Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math | Open Culture
Should we teach philosophy to children? You’d have a hard time, I imagine, convincing many readers of this site that we shouldn’t. But why? Source: Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at … Continue reading
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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
I’m currently reading The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt where he uses the metaphor of the elephant and the rider. The elephant is instinct, the rider is consciousness. He talks a lot in the early section about how the rider often spends it’s time … Continue reading
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The Wisdom of Night Vale
It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world, and so it was much clearer, and also I was younger. Thus, the world was simpler. Fear is a reasonable response … Continue reading
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You Are Not So Smart and You Are in Very Good Company | Think Tank | Big Think
I very much liked this quote… I take great pleasure in accepting this because I feel a unity in the humility, in the recognition that we are a community of messy, stumbling, fumbling beings tumbling through space wrestling with a confusing gift … Continue reading
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Commentary: TPH #336: How Your Emotions Are Made
Commentary on: TPH podcast #336: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman BarrettTranscript on HappyScribe I almost immediately disliked her because of the laugh at the beginning. I don’t know why but it struck me wrong. Then she started … Continue reading →