Time Psychosis, Omnipotence, and the Buddha’s Second Noble Truth
Pasadena, California April 14, 2017 Dear Readers, A habit I label time psychosis causes me to often run late. It results from omnipotence,... Read More
Reflections on Narcissism
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Glendale, California Dear Readers, Reeling from a critique I received from my last post, I balance out... Read More
Too Worried What Others Think?
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Sunday, April 9, 2017 Glendale, California Dear Readers, If not one yourself, you probably know persons who obsessively worry about how they’ve... Read More
How to Tell Truth from Fiction
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autobiography, CNN, false stories, fiction, Goebbels, North Korea, propaganda, Putin, reading, Russia, The Economist, Trump, truth
///Pasadena, California Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Dear Readers, Troubled by the LA Times’ series of editorials about Trump’s lies, I offer advice... Read More
Free Will III: Three More Arguments!
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Monday, April 3, 2017 Pasadena, California Dear Readers, I remain haunted by Sam Harris’ book Free Will. Arguments against his strict determinism... Read More
Preliminary Thoughts on Inter-Connectedness
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anarchism, Brahman, denial, depression, disavowal, dissociation, EPA, exploration, Heraclitus, imagination, integration, invisible-hand, laws, Logos, marriage, Milesians, neurobiology, pollution, regulations, sadness, Tao, taxes, Trump, walls
///Glendale, California Saturday, April 1, 2017 Heya Readers, Once you begin delving into philosophy, you face immediate choices. You likely want some... Read More
Free Will II: You Own Your Thoughts, Kinda
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Pasadena, California Thursday, March 30, 2017 Dear Lovely Readers, I remain marginally obsessed by thoughts about free will. I keep mentally running... Read More
Trump, the EPA, and Dis-Integration
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Pasadena, California Dear Readers, Today Donald Trump headed out to EPA headquarters to begin his plan to dismantle... Read More
Alcoholism, Dissociation, and the Russian Protests
Pasadena, California Monday, March 27, 2017 Dear Readers, Imagine the guts of Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption activist in Russia who organized the... Read More
Scary Questioning of Free Will — Part I
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Glendale, California Saturday, March 25, 2017 Oh Lovely Readers, I reacted with immense sadness—lasting several days—after finishing Sam Harris’ book, Free Will.... Read More