Tag: free-thinkers
group name: noncorformists
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March 18, 2006 12:33 PM EST --
You might be a nonconformist if:
1) You don't own a suit, baseball cap or nylons.
2) You don't comb your hair, mow a lawn or deduct mortgage interest on your taxes.
3) The last 10 times you . . . more
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December 23, 2006 09:58 PM EST --
I am gong to describe an imaginary person who I will call Mr. Gray.
Mr. Gray is a scientist and believes in the utility of the scientific method to ascertain facts and truth.
Mr. Gray only believes that . . . more
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March 18, 2007 02:15 PM EDT --
A ‘discussion’ I had with someone on Gather got me thinking and thus writing.
A question formed and that is the lead in to this brief essay: Which tribe has truth?
I am defining the word . . . more
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August 26, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
The Emperor’s New Clothes
‘Any fundamentally new system involves new [‘Semantic Reaction’] s.r; and this is the main difficulty which besets us when we try to master a new system. . . . more
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July 22, 2006 11:46 AM EDT --
Let me back up and start with something deceptively simple: Time.
In the real world of physical reality processes, events, take time. Things do not occur instantaneously, although they may . . . more
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January 21, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
"Our age is, in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit. Religion through its sanctity, and law-giving through its majesty, may seek to exempt themselves . . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:33 AM EDT --
"The value of philosophy is… to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, . . . more
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May 28, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
The Hammer of Aristotelian logic
By Gary Jaron, April 26, 2006
[Submitted to ETC magazine for publication]
Abraham Maslow once said something very important about . . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
The way of the Gnostics
Hans Jonas wrote: ‘the common secular culture was increasingly affected by a mental polarization in religious terms, leading finally to a breaking up of the former unity . . . more
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June 10, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
Let's start with a foundation of agreement.
1) The universe exists. This is a 100% true fact.
Now you should notice that I have not defined the word "Universe" nor the word . . . more
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December 12, 2006 09:49 PM EST --
Note: The conclusions of this rather long essay are to show that our beliefs can filter and affect what data comes in through our senses. We can end up seeing and hearing only what we beleive. . . . more
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June 10, 2007 02:05 PM EDT --
To see life as it is.
In the play Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Wasserman recounts the life of Miguel De Cervantes, who created and wrote Don Quixote. There is a moment when Cervantes, . . . more
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January 28, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
Matt Lawrence in his book: Life a Splinter in Your Mind: The Philosophy Behind the Matirx Trilogy, wrote the following statement to summarize those movies.
" I'd say that these films . . . more
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