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A naval gazing collection

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Belly Button Lint
Belly Button Lint

A naval gazing collection

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Actions follow being, or not

March 21, 2023 March 19, 2023 / being, determinism, existential / 1 minute of reading

“Actions follow being,” wrote Aristotle twenty-three centuries ago. He meant that a thing can only act according to what it …

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Social Policing

March 20, 2023 March 21, 2023 / boundaries, happiness, responsibility / 1 minute of reading

People see you happy, being yourself, or feeling yourself, and the balancing mechanism is to apply their internalized burdens (“responsibility”) …

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too long a parasite

March 19, 2023 March 15, 2023 / autonomy, dependence, reliance, resources / 1 minute of reading

Any system of dependencies limits independence by encouraging a replication of behaviors: the reliance of the parasite establishes it’s behavior …

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experience before reason

March 18, 2023 March 15, 2023 / experience, rationality, theory / 1 minute of reading

You must have experience before reasoning is useful. Reasoning leads to mutually incommensurate outcomes and antinomies: it is a patch …

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the time problem with saving environment

March 17, 2023 March 15, 2023 / environment, future, time / 1 minute of reading

People have a difficult time living out a set of principles that will bear fruit in 200 years. It is …

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innocence is to be feared

March 16, 2023 March 13, 2023 / absurdity, contradictions, innocence / 1 minute of reading

Moral people behave poorly, while many with integrity have no rules. The recognition of this is to grasp absurdity and …

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“nature” is not natural

March 15, 2023 March 12, 2023 / civilization, nature, other, rationality / 1 minute of reading

Nature is a concept that needs to be clarified. If nature exists outside of areas man has civilized, then it …

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