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Tag Archives: convention
Floating
We float with little sense of boundaries. I feel like this doubt is not acknowledged or appreciated enough in day-to-day life. Convention dictates certainty in the most bizarre places…what we know is very confusing. Even in quantum mechanics – existence at its … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged bubbles, certainty, convention, floating, knowledge, quantom mechanics, reality, science, uncertainty
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Maya – “All Duality Is Falsely Imagined”
This post is in response to Delineation. “Translated into conventional and – let it be repeated – mytho-poetic language, the knowledge of Brahman is represented as the discovery that this world which seemed to be Many is in truth One, … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies, Quotes
Tagged Alan Watts, borders, boundaries, Brahman, Buddhism, class, convention, delineation, differences, distinction, distinctions, division, duality, etymology, fact, Greco-Roman, Hinduiusm, illusion, imagination, India, Indian philosophy, language, Latin, maya, measure, measurement, nonsense, one, perception, reality, Sanskrit
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Convention
Each day there are more people on this Earth. Carbon dioxide levels continue to rise to what climatologists estimate may be the highest in millions of years. At the same time, there are some that insist vehemently that our way … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged 1984, attitude, capitalism, censorship, choice, climate change, convention, decision, doublespeak, earth, fate, George Orwell, global warming, green, justice, logic, media, new, norms, orthodoxy, possibility, poverty, prejudice, progress, propoganda, psychology, record heat, research, slogan, temperature, thought, truth, Wittgenstein, work
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