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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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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
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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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Active Philosophy 