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The weight of the world is too heavy to rest upon mismatched, uneven pillars of self. We're not strong enough to bear that burden for long without stress cracks from the weight and constant motion of the societal superstructure we support. Raise therefore your children in an image other than your own, for we are all flawed. Increase their ( Read more... )

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As these apparent end times quickly approach, battle lines are drawn betwixt two sets of believers, and while one cannot deny the unprecedented activity in the heavens there are those of us who - caught in the eddy between two maelstroms - await the final verdict. Are these signs indeed the foretold biblical angelic trumps of Revelations marking ( Read more... )

I see Neutral Good as an idealist with empirical tendencies. Idealism to me seems to be the philosophy which bridges empiricism (knowledge acquired through experience alone) and rationalism (acquiring knowledge through deductive reasoning alone) by pointing out that experience is subject to reason just as reason without the filter of experience is ( Read more... )

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Its not ignorance I despise. We're all ignorant of things we have no knowledge of - but its those holdouts who choose to either remain ignorant or somehow refrain from knowledge (those who actively block understanding perhaps believe ignorance is bliss and will somehow lead a more fulfilling life) which grate on me the most, because of the ( Read more... )

As each of us toils through our day, everyday, each individual thing we see or do is based upon assumptions ( Read more... )

"Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom."

-- Hugo De Groot

I know it looks like a linux MOTD, but I actually found it on my teabag's tag.