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§1 Writing prompt “Jesus Christ loves you, but He sure hasn't convinced me to yet.” §2 With age comes knowledge I am now old enough to understand why old people love watching baseball so much. I can sink into a telecast like it's a comfortable recliner.
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For Kojève, the key concept in Hegel’s “Phenomenology” was recognition. Human beings want the recognition of other human beings in order to become self-conscious—to know themselves as autonomous individuals. As Kojève put it, humans desire, and what they desire is either something that other humans desire or
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§1 Extraneous information omitted As of February 20, 2024, this Easton Press book page lacked any information about either the author(s) of the book's text or when the text was written.
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§1 Billy Joel finds his second wind Billy Joel's resurrection of his past in the video for his new song “Turn the Lights Back On” is a use of deep fake video that I can enjoy.
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§1 A writing prompt “Thank you for making the effort to produce the illusion that I have a choice about this decision.” §2 Relationship advice xkcd strikes again... §3 SOFA “Nothing is fixed, nothing is permanent, and nothing lasts.” §4 A tune to brighten your day Is it a gloomy
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...maybe your night...
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§1 xkcd Another winner. §2 A writing prompt “So what if they would have snubbed each other five years ago? I'll bet in another five years they won't know what they were thinking today. But they need each other now, and sometimes nothing else matters but
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§1 Things We Take for Granted It is only in the past half-century or so that every conceivable subdivision and admixture of the rainbow has been available [to painters] in off-the-shelf tubes. -- Philip Ball, Bright Earth : Art and the Invention of Color (Chicago : Univ of Chicago, 2003,
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§1 That's it! One minor irritant in what could be a truly tragic year in American political history is the return of this sort of thing. §2 “Fake It 'Til You Make It” The flaw in the advice to “fake it 'til you make it” is
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But we must go on to say that while it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man
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§1 Open up your Golden Gate… “California, Here I Come” was first recorded 100 years ago this week.
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§1 Quotation “[A] huge segment of the ‘free speech activist’ culture is just absolutely pathologically oversensitive to criticism and dissent and […] much of the ‘we hate cancel culture’ culture is consumed with telling people to shut up.”—Ken White §2 Free Mickey! This Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon welcomes Mickey