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Tag Archives: perception
Ignorance is Bliss?
With all of this ‘Ground Zero’ Mosque bullshit, I think it’s good to take a satirical perspective to get to down to the roots of American xenophobia. I’ll let ‘The Onion’ do it.. <— Click the Link Hard Copy of … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged 911, america, american, comedy, Ground Zero Mosque, ignorance, muslim, perception, satire, terrorist, The Onion, willful ignorance, world news, xenophobia
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Delayed Memory
A strange thing…not being able to remember a word. You rack your brain for a few minutes, and then give up. In the middle of the night you wake up and it hits you. Somehow active thinking creates a passive process … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged acorn, Allen, aphorism, As A Man Thinketh, character, delayed memory, heart, James Allen, memory, oak, perception, recall, seed, spontaneous, thought, tree, Wittgenstein
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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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Brain-Control
Sometimes the brain follows some pretty strange paths. Some are outright dangerous. You have to watch over your brain! But who is doing the watching?!!
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged brain, conscious, consciousness, decision, decision making, decisions, life, living, perception, subconscious, unconscious, watching
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Equality of Thought
We try not to fall in the snares of the old ideas – we intend to alter the way we look at them. Given our uncertain world: Impressions, empathy, perception, and intuition are more dear to us than logic – … Continue reading
Posted in Active Philosophy
Tagged Active Philosophy, adults, children, empathy, Ideas, impressions, intention, intuition, logic, perception, postmodernism, rationality, science, thought
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On Fear of One Another II
This blog is in response to Fear of One Another Which is a follow up to the debate started in the posts On Science, Religion, and Nationalism On Science, Religion, and Nationalism II I will also admit that I was … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged active, america, capitalism, choice, church, contradiction, crisis, ethics, existence, faith, freedom, God, hope, humanity, Ideas, knowledge, life, meaning, motivation, perception, Philosophy, politics, questions, reality, religion, revolution, school, science, society, Spinoza, truth, vs., Wittgenstein, work, Zen
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Dreams
I think that dreams are also an important human quality to study. They form the bridge between our conscious and unconscious minds, whose separation is very blurred (if one even exists at all). I was inspired to write the post … Continue reading
Posted in General Philosophies
Tagged asleep, awake, building, construction, definition, difference, dreams, how can you know?, objects, perception, reality, unconscious, vs., what is reality
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Biology and Philosophy
One thing that I think that is highly over looked when thinking about philosophy is the lack of attention to the vessel which we use to think about philosophy; namely our bodies. When attempting to answer some of life’s most … Continue reading