Tag Archives: technology

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up…

Posted on August 20, 2009 by activephilosophy

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up – Tom Waits I am not quite sure what made me think of this, but I remember awhile back I watch a documentary about how dogs became dogs and what made them different than wolves. … Continue reading →

Posted in General Philosophies, Music | Tagged aging, children, dogs, domestication, fire, history, kids, necessity, puppies, struggle, technology, Tom Waits, wolves | 1 Comment

Ode to My Cell Phone

Posted on June 27, 2009 by jroeder90007

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 →

Posted in Quick Ideas | Tagged applications, battery, cell phone, charge, chat, communication, discussion, facebook, online, poetry, talk, technology, verse | 1 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

Our Camera!

Posted on April 21, 2009 by deadondres

Presenting The Sony HVR-Z5U! I hope to order it soon!

Posted in Documentary Ideas | Tagged art, artist, camcorder, camera, cinematography, digital, DIY, Documentary, equipment, film, film making, HD, Ideas, movies, opportunity, project, sony, Summer, technology | 1 Comment

The Internet

Posted on April 1, 2009 by deadondres

Is there any better proof that anarchy is a viable structure if we melt away our preconceived notions of self and other? In any case it is good to focus on what we can do…use ideas as models for improvement…I … Continue reading →

Posted in Quick Ideas, Quotes | Tagged anarchy, blogging, boundaries, chaos, conspiracies, desire, evidence, facebook, freedom, Gordan Graham, international relations, internet, modern, motivation, notions, organisms, organization, organized energy, potential, proof, reading, search engines, self, Structure, subversion, technology, the other, thought, today, writing, youtube | 2 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

Tying up Loose Ends

Posted on March 23, 2009 by activephilosophy

This post is a response to “Loose Ends” I originally wrote a several page response to your last post, where I went through your points one by one and developed either an agreement or a counter argument. Then, I realized … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Philosophy, General Philosophies | Tagged acheivement, active, advancement, art, being, bible, bullshit, certainty, church, control, darkest, death, destiny, development, double, doubt, dying, edge, Emerson, expression, fear, fixing, forward, fresh, God, history, honor, hope, human, humanity, independence, individual, individuality, Leibniz, life, living, loose ends, male, methods, necessity, nonbeing, pastor, perspective, Philosophy, preacher, religion, respect, science, scratch, scripture, sides, Spinoza, spirit, start, successful, technology, tying up, unknown, white, Wittgenstein, word, words | 10 Comments

Loose Ends

Posted on March 21, 2009 by deadondres

I think this can be the last post I need in response because through this debate I think I’ve honed what I’m trying to say. This is a continuation of: On Science Religion, and Nationalism On Science, Religion, and Nationalism … Continue reading →

Posted in General Philosophies | Tagged bible, Buddhism, certainty, computers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, gospels, jesus, logic, malcolm x, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, rationality, religion, science, scripture, socrates, Spinoza, superstition, technology, virgin birth, Wittgenstein, work, Zen | 3 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

Did You Know?

Posted on February 1, 2009 by deadondres

A stimulating video. I want to make these facts feel real; movies are a manner of “knowing/processing” things in real time. In other words, we know for example certain events, as an example I will use torture, but watching a … Continue reading →

Posted in Documentary Ideas | Tagged Asimov, Augusto Boal, changing world, did you know?, internet, petri dish, population growth, real time, technology | Leave a comment

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