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Reflections on Elections

Last night the United States held their midterm elections. They were, almost any way you want to try to look at them, a giant customer satisfaction survey about the 45th President of the United States. mais 908 palavras

Politics

Islam and the Future of Tolerance

Coming soon from this OZ-based outfit. This film will get the regressives and others under the spell of Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome riled up of course — nice!  mais 6 palavras

Regressive Left

Sam Harris, Ph.D. — How to Master Your Mind (#342)

“The goal of meditation is to uncover a form of wellbeing that is inherent to the nature of our minds.” — Sam Harris

Sam Harris… mais 1.239 palavras

The Tim Ferriss Show

High noon equivalency

I tend to favor Western Philosophy. Likely for the reason that I’ve just been exposed to more of it. That’s not to say I don’t ‘culturally appropriate’ concepts from Taoism or Buddhism, or any other -ism that I like and find compatible with my Joey-OS… its just that when it comes down to fundamentals it tends to be predominantly Greek in origin (and then further paired down to Stoicism, because I like the label) mais 485 palavras

Philosophy

Atheist extremism of the Left

Secular extremism, being pushed by factions of the radical Left, is actually not anti-religion, but anti-morality.  Despite the attempts of Atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, who have argued that it is possible to conceive of a moral framework divorced from religion; these types seem to believe that any and all moral judgments and values (even those of Stalinist Russia) are all derivatives of religious faith.  mais 379 palavras

Culture

on lying

Sam Harris in a short book or should it be a booklet titled lying, writes in conclusion

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life.

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Philosophy