Any desire that can make our minds spin out of control but also have benign influences should be worthy of contemplation.  In particular, there is love, and one person may have a better idea of it than most of us do now: Socrates.  He gives a speech about this in the Symposium concerning what it is and even where it may have originated.

The origin ( Read more... )

Those new classes get you thinking all over again, some for the better.  Just thought I'd share this!

"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our ( Read more... )

The internet is an objectively realized representation of the collective human unconsciousness.

That's what i thought of when i read

"When asked to give the source of his knowledge, he being at this time in the sub-conscious state, he stated: 'Edgar Cayce's mind is amenable to suggestion, the same as all other subconscious minds, but in addition ( Read more... )

Returning from the bank, i'm stopped at the light of 249 and 1960, right there in front waiting to go through the underpass and make a left towards home.  So as i'm starring off into space...BOOM, sreeeeeech.  'holy shit' there's an 18-wheeler and a pick up truck skidding towards me.

The light changes to green.

I put my car in park and run to the ( Read more... )

11 lessons of the film.

1. Empathize with your enemy.
2. Rationality will not save us.
3. There's something beyond one's self.
4. Maximize efficiency.
5. Proportionality should be a guideline in war.

The Hand That Signed The Paper

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.

The mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder,
The finger joints are cramped with chalk;
A goose's quill has put an end to murder
That put an end to ( Read more... )

1. Hotel - I gave my girlfriend ( Read more... )

Totalitarianism within the Marine Corps ( Read more... )

Uniform Inspections ( Read more... )

Atop Burgess ( Read more... )