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Findings: Imaginary Friends
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Tuesday, May 07, 2013. When we were very young, we had friends who were toys, whom we assigned lives to, and who were what we now call imaginary friends. And supposedly, as adults we are supposed to grow out of such imaginings. But that is not it at all. And so, Christopher Robin and Pooh, Calvin and Hobbes, and a host of other half-real and half-imagined friends, here's to you! These days, marmalade sun-cat looks upon me with curious green eyes, miaows softly...
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Findings: Responses (May 2015) — Summary
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Responses (May 2015) Summary. The list of IB TOK Prescribed Titles for May 2015 (with some of my personal brief responses) will be collected in this post. There is no such thing as a neutral question. Evaluate this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge. With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. Etched with acid at 3:15:00 pm. Links to this post:.
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Findings: Empty Space
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Friday, October 18, 2013. In the aftermath of M John Harrison's Empty Space. I dreamt a strange reversal of my own. In my dream, I was cleaning up the rheumy eyes of the very young and the very old, and a voice whispered to me, "Remove the dirt from others' eyes, now that you have cleaned your own.". And the world overflowed with people with dirty eyes, and my own eyes overflowed with tears. Etched with acid at 1:44:00 pm. Links to this post:.
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Findings: Anarchy
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Tuesday, November 05, 2013. In my few decades in this world, I have seen a few kinds of would-be Anarchs, some less tiresome, some more. Here are some of them. 1 The simplest kind is the kind that covers its ears and yells loudly that it doesn't care and you can't change its mind. It is self-defeating sort, since it thinks to elude the rule of law by imposing an even sterner law on itself. So be it, then. I first encountered Alexander Pope's Dunciad. When I wa...
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Findings: Alternatives
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Monday, February 17, 2014. When I was much younger, there were choose-your-own-adventure stories. But those weren't very impressive to me; I used to map them out as trees and colour the trees for the heck of it just to see how they might look. And once in a while, you realise the only story you really know is your own. This is not The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. But there were key moments. Stick, or twist. Stay, or go. Stand and fight, run and ...Sometimes...
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Findings: The Long Day Wanes
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Monday, October 14, 2013. The Long Day Wanes. Where to begin, now? There is a happy man who sits in the pale golden light of the IKEA lamp, looking back with satisfaction on six months' work. So perhaps we begin with the present moment, or that range of self-knowledge which masquerades as time. My current estimate is that in Atlantis, it is possible to get by on ten thalers a day. The question then becomes, "How much work does one need to earn that much? I wou...
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Findings: Urgency is not Agency
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Urgency is not Agency. I have a lot of students. For some reason, they wait until their assignments are almost due, and then they consult me. They seem to feel that unless there is urgency, there is no emergency. They forget that 'emerge' in its original sense implies the rise of that which is submerged, and the deeper it is submerged, the longer it takes to emerge. Etched with acid at 5:57:00 pm. Saturday, June 01, 2013 11:17:00 pm.
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Findings: April to September
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Monday, September 08, 2014. April has always been the cruellest month, according to Eliot at least. But life has been filled with a never-ending stream of new environmental pressures, forcing adaptation and perhaps evolution. All this, and much more. Etched with acid at 4:54:00 pm. Links to this post:. Thought of the Day. Fortune favours the brave,. As Niccolò Machiavelli was fond of saying.". Reflecting on economic growth. Why I am not an Atheist.
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Findings: Responses (November 2014) — Summary
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Inspired mysteries, mysterious inspirations. Sunday, March 16, 2014. Responses (November 2014) Summary. The list of IB TOK Prescribed Titles for November 2014 (with some of my personal brief responses) is collected in this post. Some areas of knowledge seek to describe the world, whereas others seek to transform it. Explore this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. Knowledge takes the form of a combination of stories and facts. How accurate is this claim in two areas of knowledge? As Niccolò M...
