#Philosophy

85 posts

Jun 2020 Dowding''s Law: "The United States is such an outlier that it should not be used as a normative data-point.

Aug 2019 Love: is it the absence of fear?

Feb 2019 I'll make them wild.

Jan 2018 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Jan 2018 Anybody can become angry - that is easy

Jan 2018 Authoritarians tell the truth about the future. Authoritarians lie about the past.

Dec 2017 Procedural language: The importance of going through the motions.

Oct 2017 Man's search for meaning

Aug 2017 71 words for love

Jul 2017 God helped society put its thumb on the scales

Aug 2015 Do smart people change faster?

Jun 2015 Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose & Utopia

Oct 2014 Purpose matters.

Sep 2014 Now for some thoughts on sheep.

Apr 2014 90% ape, 9% human, 1% angel.

Apr 2014 This is a peaceful blue planet.

Apr 2014 A few choice quotes found of late

Nov 2013 Post-materialist delight

Nov 2013 The status update I never write

Nov 2013 Great and glorious

Oct 2013 Democracy is the best I can think of right now

Oct 2013 Nobody's come up with a good alternative to capitalism..

Jun 2013 There are two kinds of failure.

Dec 2012 The power of pure imagination

Dec 2012 The Righteous Mind

May 2012 Maslow was so right.

Apr 2012 Let the river run

Apr 2012 Faults

Mar 2012 Leaving behind earthly feelings

Dec 2011 Two more quotes from Forty days of Rain

Nov 2011 Permaculture principles

Sep 2011 WeFirst Manifesto - Ten Core Beliefs

Aug 2011 The glorious future belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up.

Jul 2011 The world's most incredible photo

May 2011 Live a good life.

Mar 2011 Tidy your <del>room</del> planet or else there will be no <del>pudding</del> Maldives.

Mar 2011 We must cultivate our garden

Feb 2011 A developing lexicon

Jan 2011 Gaming for a better world.

Dec 2010 Neo-Classical elements: Time, money, energy, politics

Nov 2010 CDSM CE

Nov 2010 Shaking it up, Abbey style.

Oct 2010 Finite and Infinite Games

Aug 2010 Problems with paradigm change

Aug 2010 Mottainai

Jun 2010 Don't do anything that isn't play

Jun 2010 Vatican reaches out to atheists

May 2010 Is there a useful time to have money?

May 2010 Memento Mori

May 2010 Kurt Vonnegut

Apr 2010 Principle of double effect

Apr 2010 God is a stress reaction

Apr 2010 Kim Stanley Robinson on BldgBlog

Apr 2010 AC Grayling

Feb 2010 Lexicon of cooperation

Feb 2010 Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

Feb 2010 What do we call ourselves?

Feb 2010 Hubris and humus - Lessons from the garden

Jan 2010 Quantitive psychology

Jun 2009 Going from good to bad.. shouldn't that be the other way around?

Jun 2009 Perception of time

Jun 2009 Ways of considering society

Jun 2009 The Bible as a word cloud

Jun 2009 Money is getting in the way of progress

Jun 2009 What are desirable net gains?

Jun 2009 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

May 2009 This and that

May 2009 Orwell on Spring

Apr 2009 Time & Space

Apr 2009 Market failures: bridges vs tunnels

Feb 2009 A paradox involving trees

Jan 2009 Relationships, made code

Dec 2008 Peace breaks out

Nov 2008 The slippery slope of evil

Nov 2008 Left, right, and centering

Oct 2008 Things to do with my life

Oct 2008 Nudge: Rational man

Jun 2008 Life is great. It really is.

May 2008 Umbrella

Apr 2008 Motto

Apr 2008 People in Bars

Feb 2008 Love

Nov 2007 Symbols

Jun 2007 mindolympics

May 2007 Placebo