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Boiling Spirits
This is a great story with many applications: There’s an oft told anecdote about a medical missionary in a remote place, who watches, in horror, as people give untreated well water to their babies. The children regularly get diarrhea, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, belief, communication, culture, health, language, missionary, morality, myth, spirits, translating, understanding, value, witchcraft
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Ode to My Cell Phone
How do I love thee, let me count the ways… I wake up and check you, but not before remembering to put a fresh charge on your battery before I go to bed. Don’t forget the long walks in the … Continue reading
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Tagged applications, battery, cell phone, charge, chat, communication, discussion, facebook, online, poetry, talk, technology, verse
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Bigger Houses
I read this on a wall at a good friend’s family home: “We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgements; more experts but more problems; more medicines, but less … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishments, character, common sense, communication, computers, concepts, culture, dalai lama, digestion, family, fast food, greed, health, houses, hunger, judgement, knowledge, love, medicine, modern, money, neighbor, norms, notions, quote, real estate, relationships, self-knowledge, speed, technology, trash, travel, understanding, waste, wealth
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Active Philosophy 