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Enlightenment Or Not
November 27, 2019

Embrace Failure Completely

If it didn't kill you, it made you stronger. There are lots of variants of the above expression. In general, it means there are reasons one survives a failure. Learn them, all of them, and practice them openly. Future success depends upon these self-inflicted failures. Failure isn't the problem, not…
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Enlightenment Or Not
June 5, 2019

Faith Is Abdication Of Mind

Nevertheless, we rely on faith, at least somewhat, to enjoy civilization. Science and philosophy have limitations. The essay by John Horgan, below, acknowledges some questions are unanswerable. In Defense of Disbelief: An Anti-Creed We should doubt all theories and theologies that claim to solve the problem of who we really…
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April 15, 2019

Ordinary And Necessary Threats To Homo Sapiens

The big three threats today are climate change, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Weapons, especially nuclear weapons, pose a far lesser threat. Why? Humans learned long ago that weapons are fearful and destructive, and such knowledge long since has become deep-rooted into the fabric of our neurology. Humans have not…
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Enlightenment Or Not
October 12, 2018

Knee-Jerk Reactionaries Don’t Contribute Much

  KNEE-JERK REACTIONARIES DON'T CONTRIBUTE MUCH By Mark A Rudis   2018   People are knee-jerk reactionary, not contemplative. TV especially promotes this cultural behavior. Most conversations anymore, at home, on the street, at school or work, are a series of comebacks, quips, repartee, each statement as conclusion, one-up, a straight…
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Enlightenment Or Not
December 6, 2017

Enlightenment’s Motto Of ‘Dare To Know’ Has Become ‘Dare Not To Care To Know.’

    The following two articles describe the decline of encyclopedic knowledge in favor of easier pictographic knowledge which is adequate for, even preferred by the general public. Unknowns create uncertainty. The pursuit of knowledge involves uncertainty. Uncertainty, in turn, creates fear. This kind of fear is mild, and the…
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