Dog Blog: Around While We Can. August 20, 2018
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I keep on meeting Buddha. I wish he would get off my case. His appearance is more metaphysical than physical. I went to see the doctor at the hospital – he was not Buddha – he matter of factly said, I do not expect you to be alive in five years. That is what he expects with a person with my condition to live. I have organized for a second opinion, but I would be surprised if the diagnosis was radically changed.
ILLUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY March 14, 2012
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Albert Einstein wrote of the illusion of consciousness referring, at least in part,to our cultural disconnect from nature.
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THE SCALE OF THINGS February 10, 2012
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We might not be able to comprehend infinity, although at least 78 million light years might well be infinity for practical purposes, although it has a beginning and an end, and measures across the Galaxy.
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PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS February 7, 2012
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The other day I commented on Catallaxy. Judith Sloan’s daugther had sent her a cartoon that she thought may be of interest to readers.
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A CRISIS OF GOVERNANCE? September 26, 2011
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Following last Friday when Australian stocks lost 70 billion dollars in market value and the value of the dollar dropped below that of the US dollar, Ian Verrender wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald:
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BURNING THE QUR’AN September 10, 2010
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The appeals to abandon the proposed burning of the Qur’an of the President of the United States and others, including the President of Indonesia, are falling on deaf ears.
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GOD AND THE UNIVERSE September 3, 2010
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Allowing that the Universe may be an easier concept to understand, it seems that God did not have a hand in the Big Bang.
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THE 234TH July 5, 2010
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If I am right about this, today marked the 234th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence of the thirteen colonies that were to form the United States of America.
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GLENN BECK AUTHOR June 14, 2010
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How does it happen that ideas that otherwise be considered laughable, if not psychotic, can gain currency and get to be implemented?
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THE END OF DEREGULATION IDEOLOGY? May 12, 2010
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Hope springs eternal. As James Madison observed, “If men were angels, government would not be necessary”. In this view regulation is the business of government. Corporate government has other priorities.
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CAPITALISM IS UNCHRISTIAN? October 12, 2009
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I am so ignorant about these matters of theology that I had not realized that Catholics were Christians.
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“THAT’S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN” September 28, 2009
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Leonard Cohen is still giving live performances. Now a septuagnarian performer his songs have sometimes had a dark underlining. He in recent days performed at the Gamut Ran Football Stadium in Israel.
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PERILS OF DEMOCRACY August 30, 2009
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We have all been entertained by the “tea parties” held in town halls exemplifying the US version of America and American Democracy. So what is wrong with a little astro-turf public relations organizing by people acting against their own self interests?
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UNDERSTANDING FUNDAMENTALISM May 15, 2009
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As human beings, despite our species intelligence that gives us the blessing and the curse of language, we are sometimes too prone to the allure of simplicity and certainty.
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A TALE OF TWO MURDERS May 5, 2009
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Now it is possible to scan across borders and across jurisdictions. Sometimes interesting contrasts emerge.
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QUANTUM CHEMISTRY April 24, 2009
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I had heard of ionic and covalent chemical bonds, but not quantum chemistry. Another form of chemical bond was predicted by Enrico Fermi, and now it seems that its existence has been realized.
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AN EPISTEMOLOGY April 12, 2009
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How do we know anything? What is the evidence that we are knowing beings?
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