To reach truth is not to accumulate knowledge, but to awaken to the heart of reality. Reality reveals itself complete and whole at the moment of awakening. Nothing is added, or lost.
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In the first chapter of The Republic Plato says ‘justice is nothing else but the interest of the stronger’. This aphorism is a very ancient one, in its older usage, it holds a top to bottom view of force and power, but thinkers such as Foucault see power as a capillary force that we all exercise. What […]
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Sometimes, philosophy can be incredibly abstract and difficult to understand- for example, Derrida, Lacan and Foucault may not make much sense to someone who is new to them without feminism, but even then, they still require careful attention. Explaining things in too much concreteness can be misleading however and recent ‘feminists’ such as Camille Paglia, […]
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You all may have noticed my post signature, I just thought I would explain what I think it means. The Republic is all about Justice. When Socrates is put to death with hemlock, Asclepius is the God of medicine and to bring in some of Derrida’s thought here, that means Asclepius is the God of […]
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In Deconstruction, the metaphysics of presence is consideration (challenging) of the usually unchallenged assumption that is the privileged (and so present) idea by various means such as attending to the dependence of the idea on its opposite, on the trace, to use Derrida’s term, of that which is not present or attended to. There is […]
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Who’d have thought it? Diesels are not environmentally friendly? Who’d have thought that leaving the market to take care of the environment by arranging a partial petri dish type study would have been a barrel of bollocks? Now consumers are going to be hit with more tax and our planet is still on a one way […]
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I have had the pleasure of experiencing psilocybin a few times throughout my life. One of the most perplexing aspects is the communal nature of the experience. Psilocybin starts to take effect in a communal way through infectious yawns – yawning is communal and public, if one person yawns, the other will too. Later in […]
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http://www.cvltnation.com/anarchists-vs-isis-the-revolution-in-syria-nobodys-talking-about
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Lazy video post, will add more details later.