Category: Current Events
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The Opposite of a Revolution
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
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Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
One cannot steal moral dignity, or plunder justice, of appropriate benevolence. These goods are unconditionally desirable.
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Living in Interesting Times
To regard the world process as causally closed is to condemn oneself to be blown around by the arbitrary whims of opinion and power. There is no solution to the problems of life within the world system.
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The Heat Death of the Human Race
If God punished the evil and rewarded the good, then people would just be accidentally good, not essentially good. God prefers those who love Him, not those who wish to be rewarded.
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Things have always been pretty bad
the suffering inside the Church “would have originated not from external enemies, but from within the same Church” … ~ Pope Benedict XVI The title was motivated by the idea that, as bad as things seem today, things were bad in yesteryear. So I used the story of Abraham from Boccaccio’s Decameron to show the…
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Odin Sightings in Europe
As I suspected, Loki informed me that he was a member of a religious cult that has been practicing the old ways without interruption from the dawns of time. But I did not expect what came next. With unconcealed excitement, he told me that recently there have been a significant number of Odin sightings in…
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State of the Modern World Address
Vietnam. Let’s say I hate Vietnam. Consider that more than 50,000 men of my generation died there, and more than that came home all messed up. People who have been everywhere, boast about their Vietnam vacation. Don’t know why: all they can do there is visit a few Buddhist temples and the Nike factory. The…
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The Law of Success
Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born. ~ Nisargadatta, I Am That You are the “master of your fate” and the “captain of your soul,” by reason of the fact that you control your own thoughts, and, with the aid of your…
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Mayday, Mayday
When Being is forgotten, there is only becoming. Knowledge of becoming alone is illusory because the ego superimposes its own interpretation onto the real. A real science will dispel such illusory interpretations in order to penetrate to the real.
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The Open Universe
Once in a while, it is useful to regard current events from the Traditional perspective. This week we ponder about whether the world is a computer simulation engineered by some evil aliens and how that might explain the political system in the USA. The World as Simulation We ought to regard the present state of…