Tag Archives: culture

Boiling Spirits

Posted on August 11, 2009 by deadondres

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 →

Posted in Quotes | Tagged anthropology, belief, communication, culture, health, language, missionary, morality, myth, spirits, translating, understanding, value, witchcraft | Leave a comment

Bigger Houses

Posted on May 15, 2009 by deadondres

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 →

Posted in Quotes | 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 | 1 Comment

Fromm – A Religious Man

Posted on May 10, 2009 by deadondres

This is a continuation of Atheism, which was a continuation of Reincarnation And Life After Death. “I have said that man is asked a question by the very fact of his existence, and that this is a question raised by … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotes | Tagged awareness, being, church, concern, contradiction, culture, Erich Fromm, existence, fact, fun, give, God, humanity, Ideas, man, mankind, nature, power, prestige, production, property, questions, religion, teach, thinking | 1 Comment

Fragments from Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value

Posted on April 25, 2009 by deadondres

“Are all men great? No. – Well then, how can you have any hope of being a great man! Why should something be bestowed on you that’s not bestowed on your neighbor? To what purpose? If it isn’t your wish … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotes | Tagged belief, certainty, change, christ, cold, conviction, creation, culture, death, determination, direction, doctrine, faith, forces, God, hell, Holy Ghost, judgement, knowledge, life, logic, love, nature, new way of thinking, Philosophy, power, prices, redemption, religion, resurrection, rights, roots, Self-improvement, talent, thinking, thought, thoughts, trees, value, vanity, will, wisdom, Wittgenstein | 1 Comment

Process

Posted on April 15, 2009 by activephilosophy

I haven’t posted anything in awhile and have a lot to say, but I want to be concise. “The meaning of life is to live… All I know is that it gives me comfort,” is line from a previous post … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy, General Philosophies | Tagged biologist, community, creation stories, culture, jungle, knowledge, life, meaning, process, religion, survival, western | 3 Comments

The Age of Humanity

Posted on April 11, 2009 by deadondres

“You were sick, but now you’re well, and there’s work to do” – Kilgore Trout Salaam! A new regime appears! It surfaces from the wasteland of the previous power, feeding and thriving on the toxicity deposited by the old authority. … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy | Tagged Active Philosophy, art, capitalism, consumption, counterculture, cross, culture, dancing, death, destiny, economics, flag, freedom, genocide, hippies, humanity, hysteria, individuality, institutions, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonegut, life, logic, love, market, meaning, modernism, money, Music, new regime, New Sincerity, nihilism, postmodernism, private property, progress, revolution, science, society, spirit, suffering, the soul, threefold path, trade, universe, woodie gutherie, work, Zen | 5 Comments

Caprice – Part II

Posted on March 29, 2009 by deadondres

This is a continuation of Caprice and Self Control, which got started really with The Calculus of Decisions. Every day a person wakes up with a different disposition, with minute chemical changes shifting our moods and hungers. The world seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy | Tagged active, caprice, change, chemistry, choices, consistency, culture, disposition, hunger, individual, institutions, mass transit, moods, salvation, science, technology, television, thoughts, whims, will, work | 2 Comments

We are of one Essence

Posted on March 20, 2009 by activephilosophy

“It’s a future where the old divisions are overcome. Where you and all of your neighbors and the wider world can live in greater security and greater peace. I know that this won’t be reached easily. There are those that … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | Tagged address, america, american, arms, art, barriers, breaking, bridging, christain, common, contributions, culture, diplomacy, divisions, dreams, essence, foreign policy, gap, ground, history, institution, Iran, Iranian, Islam, leaders, muslim, obama, people, poet, poetry, president, reaching, Sa'di, separation, togehter, war, working | 2 Comments

On Science, Religion, and Nationalism

Posted on March 18, 2009 by activephilosophy

This post is in response to Three Ideas in Development, specifically the third idea. As for the third…I love your last paragraph…and have a lot to say about this. I know that you are of course not advocating the side … Continue reading →

Posted in General Philosophies | Tagged america, cap, capitalism, christian, chruch, culture, education, faith, God, gods, heathen, imperial, inferior, justification, knowledge, muslim, nationalism, nations, organized, Osama Bin Laden, poor, rational, religion, rich, school, science, secular, society, superior, supernatural, superstitions, technology, third world, trust, war, western | 8 Comments

Cultureless America

Posted on March 12, 2009 by jroeder90007

A friend last week, who is an international student here as USC, asked me to describe to her, in general, American culture. At first I thought of the “mixing pot” bullshit that I was taught in elementary school, and after … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | Tagged america, class, culture, diversity, hard work, melting pot, trends | 2 Comments

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