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do not fall in love

thedeviantchild wrote 57 minutes ago: do not fall in love with people like me people like me will love you so hard and desperately that th … more →

Tags: Anti-Love, Break-Up, break-up poem, breakup, distance, Do Not Fall In Love, Greek God, Love, love poem

Amuse the Mind

acedemicah wrote 2 hours ago: Do not train children in learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Children, Education

Are we getting dumber or smarter by projecting our intelligence onto technology?

Alchemical Dew wrote 3 hours ago: I saw this story on Huffington Post (http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/forget-progress/50a457 … more →

Tags: bradbury, Cyborg, Game, Google, huxley, intelligence, Memory, mind and mind, Orwell

Rhetoric in Phaedrus

David wrote 8 hours ago: Speech writing and rhetoric were important to well educated Athenian men. It formed the basis of Ath … more →

Tags: General, ATHENS, Jowett, knowledge, Phaedrus, Rhetoric, Socrates

Series 1, part 1: What is a Soul? Ψυχή; Πνεύμα;

vonleonhardt2 wrote 14 hours ago: Series 1: What is a Soul? A historical and philosophical exploration into a term everybody uses but … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Aristotle, Socrates, Greek, Heraclitus, Leucippus, Philosophy, Pre-Socratic philosophy

Philosophy's Answer:

letsthinkalittlemore wrote 15 hours ago: A lot of people say to me that philosophy doesn’t give any answers and that in this sense it s … more →

Tags: Knowledge, Philosophy, Thoughts 2, university, Answers, Ideas!, knowledge, Life, Marx

Summer reading list

Krysti Shallenberger wrote 15 hours ago: Since age 17, I’ve compiled a list of books to read in the summer. My education never stops.  … more →

Tags: Books you should read, Krysti Shallenberger, Machiavelli, Le petit prince, Virginia Woolf, Gloria Steinem, Hemingway

For Storytellers The Right Story Makes ALL The Difference (Unless You're Wrong)

D Arlando Fortune wrote 16 hours ago: I subscribed to this man’s YouTube channel today. Apparently, I’m a little behind on ET … more →

Tags: Message, Inspiration, Bible, Right Story, Socrates, Socrates story, et the hiphop preacher, Online Writing, d arlando fortune

The value of kindness

Lloyd's of Rochester wrote 22 hours ago: Don’t know why this was sitting in my drafts folder…it’s not anymore. … more →

Tags: Relationships, Inspiration, Encouragement, Life, kindness, Hard Times

The Half-Nude "Artist" and The Ridiculousness of CMU's Response

modernplatonist wrote 23 hours ago: Recently a 19 year-old art student was arrested because she had paraded half-naked dressed like a Po … more →

Tags: christianity and the modern world, Socrates, Philosophy, pope, Carnegie Mellon University, Half Nude, protestor, free speech, Freedom of Expression

PLATO

jamezstablez wrote 1 day ago: A critical analysis of Plato’s elitist challenge to democracy. Elitism is arguably the most ef … more →

Tags: Politics: Political Philosophy. (2 posts), Joseph Schumpeter, Max Weber, Socrates, ATHENS, Aristotle, Philosophy, athenian democracy

Constraints and Freedom of Art

Dosia McKay wrote 1 day ago: I’m going very slowly through Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy, refres … more →

Tags: Essays and Articles, Creativity, Art, War, Inspiration, writing, History, Society, Religion

Queerer than we can suppose

tankawanka wrote 1 day ago: This universe is Not Plato’s merry-go-round Of spinning souls—no It is a thing much queerer Queerer … more →

Tags: tanka, Poetry, Cosmology, Love, Atheism, Enlightened Nihilism, 物の哀れ, 無常, Science

Upon a peak in Darien

sandycraig2013 wrote 1 day ago: Tuesday 14 May – Hampstead (Square B5 on the Tube map), Hampstead Heath (B5), Hanger Lane (C2), Harl … more →

Tags: The Tube, The London Underground, Hampstead, hampstead heath, John Keats, Hanger Lane, Princes Street Gardens, harlesden, Hobnobs

Hyperdimensional Space — The Realm of the “Gods”

ageoflucidity wrote 1 day ago: The Secret History of the World And How To Get Out Alive Laura Knight-Jadczyk Chapter 4 Hyperdimensi … more →

Tags: METAPHYSICS/ASTROTHEOLOGY / ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE, History, New age, Holy Grail, Valencia, Fisher King, cave allegory, Socrates

Day 5

Lia wrote 1 day ago: Today I attended an end of the year program for my 2-year-old cousin. He attends a small Christian s … more →

Tags: Birthday, thirty-four, Charles Barkley, Life, Christian, teacher, Teaching, School, Graduation

Plato.. not PlayDoh

kelseylatelyy wrote 1 day ago: Have you ever met someone who is consistently pissed? I’m not talking about someone messing up … more →

Tags: Wisdom

Uncertain Particles: Leonard Michaels and the Sound of Darkness

verbaamericana wrote 1 day ago: In his essay “The Nothing That Isn’t There” – about silence and Edward Hopper’s painting “New York M … more →

Tags: Herman Melville, The New Yorker, Wallace Stevens, Leonard Michaels, Edward Hopper, rivka galchen, Wyatt Mason, James Joyce, david bezmozgis

happiness isn't real...but that's okay!1 comment

musicmaiden563 wrote 1 day ago: so i came across an interesting baha’i writing the other day that made me think a lot about ha … more →

Tags: Thoughtful Thursday, Thankful Thursday, Love, Self-Help, happiness, Baha'i, Life, God, Ho'oponopono


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