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Torrent of Consciousness: January 2015
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Friday, 30 January 2015. Your Freedom Ends Where It Impacts Mine, Mate. Yesterday I rambled on about lines and limitations with regard to personal eccentricities and taste and how it all affects others. It isn't a big deal until there is power and authority involved. And then it's a very big deal. The difference between shame and guilt may seem subtle, but it is significantly different in that the person who is shamed is told that his transgression affects the whole of society. To us this is hard to ...
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Torrent of Consciousness: A Short Course In Mindfulness - 7 - Sympathy
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Saturday, 25 July 2015. A Short Course In Mindfulness - 7 - Sympathy. What I'm saying is that if you choose to do this, you'll be glad you did. But I'm not pushy about it for the simple reason that it truly must be a personal decision. It doesn't mean that you have to actually be cruel to everyone else, and yet for some that is indeed what they do. They are rude or even spiteful to people not in their inner circle. Why? Is sympathy a step on the way to mindfulness, or vice versa? The Chinese philosopher ...
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Torrent of Consciousness: November 2014
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Saturday, 29 November 2014. Whatever Floats Your Boat. It began with a chance posting by a friend, of this "meme". I happen to feel very, very strongly about this. Cross-dressing in itself is just one aspect of the whole issue, but it's the one that gets most attention so I'll come back to that. The darkest side of it all. The problem (when we are talking about pleasures of the flesh) is that the line between seduction and coercion is a bit vague. So there's that. Relationships, they recognized it well.
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Torrent of Consciousness: May 2015
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Saturday, 30 May 2015. One Step Forward, Two Back. As it's Saturday I won't make you brain hurt too much with philosophy, I'm just going to go on a rant. Http:/ www.upworthy.com/after-cannes-turned-away-women-wearing-flats-actress-rashida-jones-responded-with-her-own-rule. Never mind older women, or people with medical conditions, it's par for the course they have to explain themselves. What about ordinary, healthy women who prefer not to walk on stilts? But when you ask people to do something very uncom...
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Torrent of Consciousness: Truth? You Can't Handle The Truth
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015. You Can't Handle The Truth. Initially this post was going to be about Richard Dawkins. I'm still going to include him, and what brought him up, but I'm going to broaden it out to a phenomenon that's not new, but has become so easy these days, thanks to the internet. But plenty of peer reviews and fact checks. FREE SPEECH! I have enjoyed the internet more than I can express. I first came online in early 1997 and I've never looked back. Learning? One of the rules of debate is "no ad h...
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Torrent of Consciousness: July 2014
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Tuesday, 29 July 2014. Going on from what I said yesterday, and taking a slightly different tack, due to a couple of comments that arose in discussions in various venues, including privately, I'd like you to read this:. Http:/ www.samharris.org/blog/item/why-dont-i-criticize-israel. Depending on your perspective, you may or may not agree with Sam. I disagree with him on several key points there, but it's a worthy read, if nothing else than it spells out very well, I think, one side of the argument. Oh no...
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Torrent of Consciousness: April 2015
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Thursday, 30 April 2015. Topic du jour. We've been a bit flippant about it over HERE. But let's cover this in a bit more detail. Let's begin by stating upfront that I do not believe in hell. Therefore it's easy for me to be flippant about it. If you do believe, and most especially if you fear it, I understand that my joking around could be a little uncomfortable. I can set your mind at rest in one of several ways. But let's call it "a book", what is it a book about? Take it as read? I know some of you th...
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Torrent of Consciousness: Ladies....
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Thursday, 23 July 2015. Funny the things you run into online when you're looking for something else. Yesterday I covered, probably not for the last time, my thoughts on the issue of whether women's clothing can be considered provocative. One comment I saw under this was "That's how women are", and it was written by a woman. Presumably if she'd said it out loud, she giggled. I hope she's young. I can forgive the young. If we want equality we have to behave better. We have to stop the contradictions...
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Torrent of Consciousness: July 2015
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Saturday, 25 July 2015. A Short Course In Mindfulness - 7 - Sympathy. What I'm saying is that if you choose to do this, you'll be glad you did. But I'm not pushy about it for the simple reason that it truly must be a personal decision. It doesn't mean that you have to actually be cruel to everyone else, and yet for some that is indeed what they do. They are rude or even spiteful to people not in their inner circle. Why? Is sympathy a step on the way to mindfulness, or vice versa? The Chinese philosopher ...
