Tag: thinking
member name: Gary Jaron
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June 04, 2006 02:28 PM EDT --
I beleive there is a difference between Books of Facts at one end of a continuum, which has at its other end Books of Ideas.
Books of Facts are timely. Books of Facts are a recital . . .
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July 08, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
What is Idolatry? – A metaphoric definition.
Idolary is an idea that has it's origin within the Hebrew Scriptures. The opposition to the worship of Idols gets summarized in what is called . . .
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June 25, 2006 10:56 AM EDT --
We live not only in a physical environment but also in a symbolic environment.
Our physical environment, of three spacial dimensions, is a geographical location which may have rivers, valleys, flat . . .
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November 26, 2006 12:09 AM EST --
There is this myth out there that Liberalism, or Secularism, or the theory of Evolution, is singularly or collectively to blame for the decline in morality in America.
I disagree.
Here is my theory. . . .
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July 03, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --
Let's review how Descartes shaped our collective inheritance, the rose colored glasses that are western cultures mythos and logos.
Since Descartes failed to realize that he was shaped by the ideas . . .
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June 18, 2006 11:32 AM EDT --
Real Magic and the Tao.
Is there such a thing as magic? I believe the answer is yes – but to understand that answer you have to ask and consider what I mean by the word: magic.
When encountering . . .
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July 16, 2006 12:08 PM EDT --
The beginning of Wisdom is the willingness to consider that you may be mistaken; mistaken in your perceptions, your conclusions and your beliefs - which all things pass through like a filter. [G M Jaron] . . .
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August 26, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
The Emperor’s New Clothes
‘Any fundamentally new system involves new [‘Semantic Reaction’] s.r; and this is the main difficulty which besets us when we try to master a new system. . . .
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January 14, 2007 03:12 PM EST --
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzche on a greeting card created by Brush Dance a publishing company based out of San Rafael, CA.
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also having to remember . . .
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June 25, 2006 12:28 PM EDT --
What shapes up? We are told that it is either Nature – our genetic inheritance, or Nurture – how we were treated and raised as a child. I believe there is a third factor and that . . .
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September 03, 2006 12:34 PM EDT --
Two: 5
Jonathan Star
All things flourish around him
and he does not refuse any one of them
He gives but not to receive
He works but not for reward
He completes but not for results
He does nothing for . . .
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September 03, 2006 03:49 PM EDT --
"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. it is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. . . .
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November 11, 2006 12:51 PM EST --
Facts and Faith
I've encountered so many people who fail to distinguish between Facts and their faith. These people act consciously and unconsciously as if their belief in those ideas that form . . .
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January 14, 2007 03:05 PM EST --
Attributed to A. A. Milne, the author of Winne - The Pooh, by Saturn Press a greeting card company based in Swan's Island Maine.
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly . . .
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January 12, 2008 05:08 PM EST --
The traditional mapsthat sociologists have presented are that humanity has been shaped by twofactors: Nature and Nurture. Many, includingmyself, believe that it is important to realize that we are shaped . . .
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June 10, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
The Hero
[from: Meditations on Quixote, chapter 15 by Jose Ortega Y' Gasset<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]-->.
Now our story leads us back to this subject. . . .
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October 01, 2006 12:28 PM EDT --
Three: 3
Jonathan Star
With the people so pure
Who could trick them?
What clever ideas could lead them astray?
D C Lau, 1963
and ensures that the clever never dare to act.
Lok Sang Ho, 2002,
In so doing . . .
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May 28, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
The Hammer of Aristotelian logic
By Gary Jaron, April 26, 2006
[Submitted to ETC magazine for publication]
Abraham Maslow once said something very important about . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
In the beginning there was Ayn Sof. Ayn Sof is a word which represents the true essence of the Divine. Ayn Sof literally means "No End", hence the Infinite. Ayn Sof is the mystery . . .
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July 22, 2006 11:46 AM EDT --
Let me back up and start with something deceptively simple: Time.
In the real world of physical reality processes, events, take time. Things do not occur instantaneously, although they may . . .
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