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"To Dream the Impossible Dream" "To march into hell for a heavenly cause." "And the world will be better for this, that one man, torn and covered with scars, still strove with his last ounce of courage, to reach the unreachable stars."

This is a fascinating but long article that I am taking this quote from:http://www.essentialism.net/mechanic.htm It is a new philosopy of essentialism and here is a very poinent statement about what our senses indeed are: So if we are only sensing the responses of our cerebro-nervous...

Gee! Your personality descriptions are very close to Myers-Briggs personality descriptions. I never thought of an MBTI personality type prefering a specific language. I guess that could be the case. I am rather global and broad minded in my thinking, and I fit number 3. So I guess I should...

I voted that I can accept criticism as long as it is justified. But the word "justified" can be very subjective. When is someone "justified" in criticising or not? I do certainly wish that foreigners would use "the American government" when they are criticising. It feels, these days, that we...

Logical Coherence Originally posted by lexico: I love your last statement. "Time will tell; the ultimate truth may be unknowable, but logical coherence is knowable beyond a shred of doubt". That is definitley worth quoting. :-) I think that many people are very lazy mentally. In other...

Woah! Great question! I think that their is some evidence that there are a larger number of criminals who were abused as children. Now, not all abused children grow up to be criminals and not all criminals were abused. But I have seen surveys to the effect that a large percent of criminals...

I found this to be a very intersting article: http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html This seems to be his main thesis. That we are growing beyond nation states, and are clashing by "civilizations". It is our task, I think, of today, to help bridge these gaps. I think that...

So what would we do if we could become what we wanted? Would we make everyone have a high IQ? What about music and art capabilities? Or maybe math. Or having "perfect recall". If we can design ourselves who or what would we become? We are on the verge of having to make these kinds of...

Our vanity involves "truth" when we attempt to implicate that truth reinforces our own subjective desires. To affirm that "truth" or "God" is on my side are examples of justifying the righteousness of our postition by assuming that "truth" will have our support. It is this rationale that leads...

Here is a clip from an article on language and culture from http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_5.htm: For those of you who are multi-lingual, or have traveled broadly, how true do you think this is? What are your thoughts about the article?

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