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3 Mar 2021 8 minute read 0 comments TheMightyBungus
What is knowledge? What is beauty? What makes me the same person from moment to moment? As a species, we have spent eons ruminating on these questions and others like them, yet we are no closer to an answer now than we were in the fledgling days of p...
2 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments TheMightyBungus
Today we will be looking at what we can learn from the Socratic idea that the wisest among us do not think of themselves as wise. A sort of meditation on humility. In Plato’s Apology of Socrates’ there is a story about a man called Chaerephon, who...
1 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
(image by author) Is "Business Ethics" an Oxymoron?(A response to a great question from @olomana - torum.com) @olomana, Thanks for reading my post and submitting such a cogent comment. As a reply to your question: "How do you reconcile the contraria...
28 Feb 2021 3 minute read 8 comments TheClassicalLiberal
A few generations ago, in order to help during a job shortage our government felt that we could help solve this problem by giving people jobs. If we made jobs for people, they would spend money and make jobs for other people. What sort of work would...
28 Feb 2021 3 minute read 3 comments DrMind
The rush of gambling is nothing like people have experienced in their lives. Depending on how much money you have and how you earn it, these feelings vary from person to person. Some cannot wait to turn 21 to head to the bar. For me, it was...
27 Feb 2021 4 minute read 1 comment (S)llew la Wulf
And Spring has sprung!! Went for a lovely long walk with my children today... Blue skies, no breeze and a full 14°c... Hardly hot, but warm and nice to feel the sun on our skins. Saturday mornings are often very lazy for us, getting up and out...
26 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ApocalypseHow
The only word is (of course) "SURPRISE!" In her eyes In her sighs No He's lingering here He wants to know But the knowledge he's after Is only RAPE Or even worse Sterile surgery Not that he knew her הוא הכיר אותה Impotence reigns No He settles for fe...
25 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Verincycus
For want of an existence, Your most heinous acts and lies, This imperfect miscreation, And your silence to our cries. Had you wanted to imagine, There was reverie and dream, But you shunned the shallow oceans, for the sleep of the obscene. And fo...
25 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RandomMusings
When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires. Then a banished writer, one of the best, scanning the list of excommunicated texts, became enraged: he'd been excluded! He rushed...
17 Feb 2021 14 minute read 2 comments (S)llew la Wulf
It's Black History Month in the States currently and although I'm UK based, BHM should never just be a one off month in my mind, it is consistently a point to reflect upon, because the reason we have it is a really boiled down to the prevailing raci...
