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Musings on Rules, Irrational Ideas, and Art
Musings on rules, irrational ideas, and art, and how they may become useful to both individuals and society. This is simply a thought exercise. Any idea that seeks to enable or restrain human choices,… more →
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Epicureanism
Ali Lochhead wrote 3 weeks ago: “The gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; all that we dread can be … more →
Musings on Rules, Irrational Ideas, and Art
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 3 weeks ago: Musings on rules, irrational ideas, and art, and how they may become useful to both individuals and … more →
The Long Tail of Snake Oil
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 3 weeks ago: For those living creatures that are unable to form compacts not to harm others or to be harmed, ther … more →
The Swerve is Real
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 3 weeks ago: Adam Smith was missing something from the whole picture. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?i … more →
How to Build High Pressure L$ Pipes
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 1 month ago: Epicurus says there are two kinds of motion, the straight and the swerve. Aetius 1.23.4 Dox.Gr. I h … more →
Lava Tubes of the LindeX
Hypatia Callisto wrote 1 month ago: “Poor Wretch”, men tell themselves. “One fatal day has stolen all your gains … more →
The Explosive Desire for L$, an Act in Three Parts
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 1 month ago: “Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that w … more →
Reflecting on Hadot's "philosophical way of life"
Ken Long wrote 1 month ago: Hadot’s discussion of philosophy as a way of life Hadot emphasizes that philosophers live in the spa … more →
Eating Humble Pie
timstafford wrote 2 months ago: I’ve eaten quite a lot of humble pie in the last few years. I’m not going to go into the details—it’ … more →
"The gods of the Heathen were good fellows."
Mark wrote 2 months ago: Portrait of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban, by John Vanderbank (ca. 1731), after a portrait by an … more →
What would Toad do?
blogspawn wrote 2 months ago: TW must report the sad demise of the recently trialled “What Would Toad Do?” advice foru … more →
Drunk CorpoHippies, Content Creator Chickens, and a Christmas Feast of Copying in Second Life
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Hypatia Callisto wrote 2 months ago: Drunk CorpoHippies at the Helm of the Ship Never in my whole time in Second Life, have I felt as dem … more →
Maybe I AM Concerned
Michael Kindt wrote 2 months ago: I have the luck & power to allow my life to be defined by its death I have the strength & th … more →
A famous guest speaker visits the FM site to tell us that we are not weak -- we are strong
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Fabius Maximus wrote 6 months ago: America faces great perils. Many posts on this site describe these problems and urge action. Or an … more →
Berry: The Wild Geese
Matilda Beupine wrote 6 months ago: Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer … more →
Fallout
smpctryphys wrote 7 months ago: One of the benefits of travel is that it exposes one to different things than one is used to: germs; … more →
Eastern meditation technique in a Western theoretical framework
Gorm wrote 8 months ago: The technique of mindfulness meditation is all right, but not the esoteric conceptual cargo that so … more →
Echoes Of Epicureanism
htmm wrote 9 months ago: Lets revel lasses and lads Sit around the table while I shuffle the cards And lets satiate our mil … more →
Bones for soup
hfreeman17 wrote 10 months ago: My father told me many years ago that when he was a boy he often dreamed of being trapped overnight … more →
