Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Gifts of Grief and Fear

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Dear Reader, When I was young, I wanted to be like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, free from emotion and able to think rationally at all times. A...
Friday, June 02, 2006

A Few New Links

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Dear Reader, If you have not yet fallen in love with Judith Martin's column for the Washington Post, Miss Manners, you are in for a trea...

The Big Picture

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Dear Reader, Beverly just handed me the following quote: If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to ...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Culture and Cultivation

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Dear Reader, Of course, even if we do cultivate our characters we will suffer the fatal consequences, since character is fate; cultivating o...

Free Will and Determinism

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Dear Reader, We are taught to believe we have free will. We are also taught not to question that teaching. In the spirit of Modernism (i.e...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Heraclitea by Serge Mouraviev

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Dear Reader, In Chapter VII, "Heraclitus," of A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume One: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagor...
Thursday, May 25, 2006

Discrete Silence

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Dear Reader, Today I deleted a few lines from one of my past blog entries. I am returning to my original plan for this blog of never discus...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Anna Lee Walters

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Dear Reader, I have collected some information on the wife of our host Harry Walters. Here are two online biographies of Anna Lee Walters: ...
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Home from Dinetah

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Dear Reader, I arrived home an hour and a half ago, though half my heart is still in Dinetah with the family of Harry and Anna Walters. Jer...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Vacation

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Dear Reader, I will be off for the next two weeks hiking and photographing in the southwest with my friends Jerry and Gary. See you when I ...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Adulthood

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Dear Reader, At age 18 (or is it 21?) what magical transformation occurs that turns a child into an adult? Nothing. Watching quality reality...
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Noted Polyglots

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Dear Reader, According to a Wikipedia article on polyglots, if you learn six or more languages you are known as a hyperpolyglot. If you le...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Polyglot

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Dear Reader, We should be or become multilingual. It is not optional for being a well-rounded human being. The limits of language impose l...

Raymond and Bryanna Scott

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Dear Reader, Today's Seattle Times ran an article in its Northwest Life section about the amazing efforts of Raymond and Bryanna Scott o...
Saturday, May 06, 2006

Visualizing Heaven

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Dear Reader, As a post-atheist, or whatever I am (I detect the need for some terminology), I am not inclined to trust to the afterlife to pr...

The Language of Homer

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Dear Reader, Gilbert Murray's The Rise of the Greek Epic continues to impress. A few samples of Homer: They two in front of the high gat...

Getting to the Root

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Dear Reader, It is 2:21 a.m., and I cannot sleep, so I blog. I should have been in Eugene with Beverly, sleeping at Beth and Jerry's ho...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Happiness and Eudaimonea

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Dear Reader, In Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles has the chorus sing "Count no mortal happy until he has reached the very end of his life fr...

Comparing Silver Products

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Dear Reader, Here is the best report I have read yet comparing and contrasting the three forms of silver, including their advantages and di...

Colloidal Silver

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Dear Reader, I'm very tired today, but making progress against the bronchitis. Until this morning, each day I woke with more congestion ...