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The Spirit Age: Keep It Simple, Superman
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Friday, January 1, 2010. Keep It Simple, Superman. I'm still on break. Instead of a new post, this is a reprint of an article I wrote that was published in The Toronto Star. On June 18, 2006. Hyperlinks have been added, but all time references are relative to the date of original publication. A brand new post will be up next week. From the beginning, all beings are Buddha". 8211; The Zen master Hakuin Ekaku. I prefer to believe in people's best.". 8217;s Dark Knight.
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The Spirit Age: Narrative Nations
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The media, all said and done, could not help but frame the recent financial crisis in Ireland in terms of the country’s fierce sense of identity when a crucial by-election was held Nov. 25 in the northern rural county of Donegal. His victory, announced Doberty as quoted. The statement punctuated the narrative that had long since become as much about nationalism as economics. Just a week earlier, the editorial. On Japan. It quotes Akih...
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The Spirit Age: November 2010
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The media, all said and done, could not help but frame the recent financial crisis in Ireland in terms of the country’s fierce sense of identity when a crucial by-election was held Nov. 25 in the northern rural county of Donegal. His victory, announced Doberty as quoted. The statement punctuated the narrative that had long since become as much about nationalism as economics. Just a week earlier, the editorial. On Japan. It quotes Akih...
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The Spirit Age: Universalism and Cultivating the Garden
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Thursday, May 6, 2010. Universalism and Cultivating the Garden. François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire. Was an 18th-century novelist, poet, playwright, social critic and philosopher who, among other things, advocated for freedom of thought, especially in relation to religion. A deist. Voltaire believed in God as a supreme being, but argued for basing this conclusion on rational observations of nature rather than blind faith. Similar words were ...
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Golden hamster: Bart's bio
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My name is Bart B. Van Bockstaele and I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who has been living in Toronto since 1996. As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish. I love technology, not because it is “cool” but because of what it can do for me. I obviously love hamsters, I wouldn't be creating and making this blog otherwise. A program of the Dutch Wo...
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Drenched With Blood: Bart's bio
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Godly bloodlust from talking snake to lake of brimstone. My name is Bart B. Van Bockstaele and I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who has been living in Toronto since 1996. As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish. I love technology, not because it is “cool” but because of what it can do for me. Until I created the House Of Quack. A program of t...
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House Of Quack: Bart's bio
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My name is Bart B. Van Bockstaele and I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who has been living in Toronto since 1996. As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish. I love technology, not because it is “cool” but because of what it can do for me. I maintain a website with a focus on Toronto. It can be found at thamno.com. To most of the programs in whi...
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The Spirit Age: In Celebration of Awe
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Thursday, December 23, 2010. In Celebration of Awe. It was a metaphysical standoff. Befitting the holiday season in the information age, the age of reason, the age of consumerism and The Spirit Age. In late November, American Atheists. By early December, the Catholic League. A very different sort of duel between the faithful and the rational occurred in Toronto on Nov. 26, when the celebrated Munk Debates. God Is Not Great. An Ipsos Reid poll. Show both men advocate...
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The Spirit Age: What Is Is What Is Not
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Mindfully Stumbling Through Modernity. Wednesday, November 3, 2010. What Is Is What Is Not. 8220;Semantics is always a bitch.”. Any complaints Preston Manning. In the Globe and Mail are those undoubtedly shared by many among a public increasing distrusting of the democratic process. At the same time, however, Manning’s reason for lament – the knee-jerk polarization of political debate by virtually all stakeholders – is something which the public practically demands of its politicians. The late 20th centu...
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