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• Bertrand Russell On Religion

  

  The following two paragraphs are from a speech given in 1927 by Bertrand Russell (pictured above) entitled "Why I Am Not A Christian". Read more

  The 17 February 2013 by   Jobsanger
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• The Ontology of Power

  

  There have been quite a few posts on the concept of power over the years in this blog (link). This continues to be an intriguing subject for me. Read more

  The 12 February 2013 by   Dlittle30
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• 'Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is' - the Paper!

  

  Whoops, we did it again - a paper based on the blog! This time we are in press at Frontiers in Psychology, in a Research Topic on embodied cognition, with a... Read more

  The 12 February 2013 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Seabiscuit and Taboo

  

  There once was a time when anthropologists (and sociologists) struggled mightily to explain taboos — they come in such a variety of shapes and sizes that this... Read more

  The 11 February 2013 by   Cris
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• Byzantine Buddhism

  

  When imported and variously transformed for western consumption, “Buddhism” connotes a serene sort of detachment from things and concerns of the world. Read more

  The 10 February 2013 by   Cris
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• A Tidbit on Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich

  

  I must admit that it's been a very long time since I've read anything in existentialism, it's been at least 25 years. Now that we're in the year 1984, in a brav... Read more

  The 10 February 2013 by   Tantrawave
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• On Genuine Perfection

  

  There are people who are perfectionists, there are some who are obsessively-compulsively clinically perfectionists, and I will quickly demonstrate why their... Read more

  The 07 February 2013 by   Tantrawave
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• Perspectival “Costumes” and “Art”

  

  While searching Google’s gigantic photo cache, I came across this startling and beautiful image:In this past I would have looked at this in a rather shallow way... Read more

  The 06 February 2013 by   Cris
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• The Vital Pragmatism of Futurists

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.Last year in the article Vital Mysticism of Oracles I noted that predictions and those willing to cast them have always been a... Read more

  The 06 February 2013 by   Realizingresonance
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• The Disorder of Defiance

  

  It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti) There supposedly is such a thing as "Oppositional Defiant... Read more

  The 05 February 2013 by   Tantrawave
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