Category Archives: Life

Will You Wake up With the Lions?

Lions, a song by Five Times August, performed live on The HighWire.

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Being Content With What We Have

Post by Jeff Minick My Pennsylvania-born mother owned a black napkin holder sporting an Amish woman and an inscription: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart” (“We grow too soon old and too late smart”).

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It Has Arrived. The New Year. 2024

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An Attitude of Gratitude

In a few days, it will be Thanksgiving Day in the US. It is the American national holiday that is celebrated, each year, on the fourth Thursday in November. The day commemorates the original autumn harvest meal (1621) shared by … Continue reading

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Neil Oliver Interviews George Galloway

The discovery credit for this video goes to mh, for finding it and posting it in the Open Thread.

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The Blind Obedience of an Easily-Led Pack

Post by Richard Kelly Have you ever wondered about where our beliefs come from? What drives the way we frame the events we witness? What impact our worldview has on our actions? What meaning can we ascribe to our actions? … Continue reading

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My Mind Is Not My Brain

Guest Post by Abigail L. Rosenthal How much hangs on that denial – or on its contradictory, that my mind is my brain! If our minds are our brains, as I once thought, and as our educated contemporaries mostly still … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflections [14 August 2022]

A Sunday contemplation: To nourish and feed the soul, Or to ponder over ………..

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Hope Springs Eternal…With Some Effort

Guest Post by Julie Ponesse In the fall of 2021, after 20 years spent teaching philosophy at universities in Canada and the U.S, I was terminated “with cause” for challenging my university’s COVID policy.  Since then, I have been interviewed … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflections [07 August 2022]

A Sunday contemplation: To nourish and feed the soul, Or to ponder over ………..

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Sunday Reflections [31 July 2022]

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Sunday Reflections [24 July 2022]

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Sunday Reflections [17 July 2022]

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Sunday Reflections [10 July 2022]

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Sunday Reflections [03 July 2022]

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