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eThoughts : Gaining Wisdom: Checking Belief and Truth With Reality
Both belief and truth are potential tyrannies. Witness California’s passage of Proposition 8 defining marriage as that between a man and a woman. A group of people—homosexuals—are denied marriage. How about the laws, passed by a majority, that governed the interaction of blacks and whites—or not as the case actually was. Separate facilities, no intermingling—including […]
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- On Nov, 17, 2008
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eThoughts : November 15, 2008: Truth, Belief, and Wisdom
After the fiasco of the majority vote for California’s Prop 8—the one that defines marriage as between a man and a woman—I think it time to point a finger at belief. Before heading out on this musing, I think it may behoove us to go over philosophy’s basic tests of truth. The first one I’ll […]
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- On Nov, 15, 2008
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eThoughts : Expanding vs Narrowing Awareness
One of the ways to know it’s truly safe is the ability to both contract and expand one’s awareness. We all live in some sort of a bubble of perception, yet we all need to know that our bubble is somehow in the same sea as others and their bubbles. That’s a connection expanded awareness […]
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- On Mar, 12, 2008
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eThoughts : We Are and the Age of Clarity
(For more Holiday thoughts, go to: Holiday Thoughts for 2003, or 2004 Holiday Thoughts and 2004 Holiday Thoughts Continued, or Holiday Thoughts for December 2005 and 2005 Holiday Thoughts Continued), or Holiday Thoughts: December 2006.) As I previously said, a realization that we’re all in this together and the clarity to see what really is […]
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- On Dec, 10, 2006
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eThoughts : Holiday Thoughts: December 2006
(For more Holiday thoughts, go to: Holiday Thoughts for 2003, or 2004 Holiday Thoughts, and 2004 Holiday Thoughts Continued, or Holiday Thoughts for December 2005, and 2005 Holiday Thoughts Continued), or We Are and the Age of Clarity.) It seems to be yet another year. Funny how the Holidays never came around fast enough when […]
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- On Dec, 01, 2006
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eThoughts : Fundamentals Before Complexity
Instead of standing around acting like our view of reality is the view, maybe we could consider it a view. All right, I know we all know this, but it seems like we spend a lot less time reporting what we see and a lot more time trying to impose it. Ethical and moral reporting […]
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- On Feb, 28, 2006
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Renewal Eleven : It Is Difficult To See That One Cannot See
And then there’s the personal life–again. My former lady friend’s young son visited me recently, staying overnight. I had been nervous about it and wasn’t exactly sure why. I suppose it was because of the reminder. He seemed very happy about it all, forgoing television in favor of talking, bowling, and going on a night […]
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- On Jul, 04, 2001
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