Forum: Nothingland
07-12-2009, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,367
What is your ultimate goal in life?
What is your ultimate goal in life?
I can remember two times in my life when I seriously asked my self the question “What are my plans for the future?”
The first time occurred about a year...
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Forum: Nothingland
07-10-2009, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,821
What is the aesthetic goal of plastic art?
What is the aesthetic goal of plastic art?
Quickies from Wiki:
“Plastic arts are those visual arts that involve the use of materials that can be molded or modulated in some way, often in three...
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Forum: Politics
07-09-2009, 06:48 AM
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Replies: 65
Views: 5,802
Is America a nation at risk?
Is America a nation at risk?
In 1983, in its landmark report A Nation at Risk, the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned:
"Many 17-year-olds do not possess the 'higher-order'...
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Forum: Nothingland
07-06-2009, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,054
Aristotle said that all men seek happiness. ...
Aristotle said that all men seek happiness. Freud said that the goal of the pleasure-principle is happiness. Man’s desire for happiness sets at odds to the reality-principle. It is the...
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Forum: Nothingland
07-05-2009, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,054
Are we all neurotic?
Are we all neurotic?
My reading tells me that we are all neurotic and some of us are so neurotic that we cannot function satisfactorily in normal society and are then considered to be mentally...
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Forum: Politics
07-04-2009, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,874
What is Moral Folk Theory?
What is Moral Folk Theory?
The attempt to seek knowledge presupposes that the world unfolds in a systematic pattern and that we can gain knowledge of that unfolding. Cognitive science identifies...
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Forum: Nothingland
07-01-2009, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,580
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Forum: Nothingland
07-01-2009, 05:56 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,580
Have you ever doubted anthropomorphic polytheism?
Have you ever doubted anthropomorphic polytheism?
Those individuals who comprehend such things, in this case I am speaking of art historians in general and Alois Riegl in particular, inform me...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-08-2008, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,039
I’ve Upped My Income; Now Up Yours
I’ve Upped My Income; Now Up Yours
I would say that a culture consists of the complex of ideas that a group of people hold dear. One can speak of the culture of a small group or of a very large...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-07-2008, 05:11 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,378
I would say the difference between a virtual...
I would say the difference between a virtual world and the real world is that the real world is grounded in literal experience whereas the virtual world is not grounded.
SGCS (Second Generation...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-06-2008, 01:01 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 4,378
Virtual World versus Real World
Virtual World versus Real World
Wo/man worships and fears power; we enthusiastically give our loyalty to our leader. Sapiens are at heart slavish. Therein lay the rub, as Shakespeare might say....
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Forum: Philosophy
07-04-2008, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,972
Extinction and the Dread of Insignificance
Extinction and the Dread of Insignificance
Becker compares three great thinkers Otto Rank, Wilhelm Reich, and Carl Jung to conclude that the three provide us nothing with which to connect their...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-04-2008, 05:57 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
07-04-2008, 05:56 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
07-04-2008, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,504
It is difficult to "know" the writer on the...
It is difficult to "know" the writer on the Internet. But to help you place things in proper perspective I am a retired engineer with 5 children and 7 grandchildren. I also have an MA in philosophy...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-04-2008, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,504
Flint
I think you hold the natural sciences...
Flint
I think you hold the natural sciences in too high a regard. The natural sciences deal with objects and the human sciences deal with subjects. There is a great deal of difference between...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 02:27 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,504
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,504
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 02:13 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,504
We Are Meaning Creating Creatures
We Are Meaning Creating Creatures
The great truth of human nature is that wo/man strives for meaning. S/he imposes on raw experience symbolic categories of thought, and does so with conceptual...
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 06:33 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
07-03-2008, 06:31 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
07-02-2008, 12:23 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
Observation, reading, and judgment leads me to...
Observation, reading, and judgment leads me to conclude that very few people are Critical Thinkers and one generally must be a Critical Thinker to continually analyze the meanings that we live by.
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Forum: Philosophy
07-02-2008, 01:16 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,086
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Forum: Philosophy
06-30-2008, 05:21 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 3,332
Turtles and Humans Have Much in Common
Turtles and Humans Have Much in Common
I had once concluded it to be natural that when confronted by a new idea humans tended to do a turtle; withdraw into their shell until the coast was clear. ...
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