17 hours ago by gebs

The idea that our future is written is ultimately an illusion because it necessarily means we have no choice in our own destiny. Although God, who is omniscient, knows the possible outcome of any decision we may choose in our life, this foreknowledge does mean that we no longer have a choice. Our fu ...

Aspirations - gebran.wordpress.com · 2 references

20 hours ago by Steve Stanley

"If you let the market make you feel high or low, you will lose money." - Alexander Elder

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1 day ago by Michael

I found this statement of Natalia Ginzburg’s – after a friend suggested her work: “The Little Virtues” “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness b ...

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1 day ago by cft

The advent of the current global economic crisis has brought some things into sharper focus, don't you think? One example of this is that as regards the United States and probably also in much of Western Europe, it is difficult to dispute that comfort is an illusion, that this illusion is a commodit ...

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2 days ago by Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D.

Look at any three dots that are not in line: . . . What do you see? You see a triangle, right? But there is no triangle! The lines with which your mind connects these four dots into a pattern of a triangle do not exist. Yet – somehow – your mind organizes these three data-points of reality into a pa ...

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3 days ago by Doloras LaPicho

A new aphorism for you: Any group, religious or political, which puts its internal workings higher in priority than its intervention in the Real World of Horrible Jobs is a sect going-on-cult.

Chaos Marxism - chaosmarxism.blogspot.com · 14 references

3 days ago by multivalence

..all that poetry, all those songs, for something that doesn’t last long at all. from the film An Education

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3 days ago by jwfost

Students are oysters. Education is sand.

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3 days ago by James Geary

This month a new, revised, and slightly expanded edition of Simon May’s aphorisms is published: Thinking Aloud, from Alma Books. May (see page 343 of Geary’s Guide) is a fellow in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was also co-organizer of the first meeting of the World Aphoris ...

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4 days ago by books99

O mérito supremo, consiste em quebrar a resistência do inimigo sem lutar. Sun Tzu

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