Hello, I would like to find out how you could answer the following question: Is conscious experience an epiphenomenon of the brain? I’ve dealt with this question several times before, but I’ll gladly address it[…]
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Author: askme
The great mass of humanity is obstinately and blindly stuck in a repetitive consumerist dynamic
Q: Thank you for replying. I must say, your goodwill and faith in people is quite admirable. I agree that a shift towards creative / artistic production is something of great value and represents a[…]
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Why do we continue to evade the truth? …Are we dumb or are we evil?
Everyone in the Western World and beyond knows that we hold the key to personal/societal/cultural/financial transformation. We know that everything we do is wrong. Instead of going out and doing exactly what we should, ie[…]
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what is life ? i am not able to understand the things around me. i am not able to define myself, my position.
In the old days, prior to Individuality, your Identity was entirely a function of what slot your community plugged you into. You might be the Village Idiot, the Village Chief, the Village Medicine Man, the[…]
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Science
Third in a series on ending war. If Sport can neither take the place of War, nor of Consumerism, then how about Science and Technology? Together they compose a powerful economic engine, with advances in[…]
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Sport
Second in a series on ending war. The most obvious and ancient substitute for War is Sport. The origins of the first athletic game are lost in the mists of history, which means that Sport[…]
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I grew up in a generation that vowed never again to go to war. And yet here we are, in it up to our eyeballs all over again. It doesn’t seem to matter who’s in office, or how many protests there are. When will it ever stop? *
In the previous series of blog posts we explored the question of why unemployment is so high, which led to the ways in which Consumerism is coming to the end of its usefulness as an[…]
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How do you define reality and illusions in life?
From the time I was very young, I worried about the question of whether the true nature of Reality was as we perceive it or not. And if we could be deluded about the nature[…]
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Why War Must End
War has been a feature of human existence throughout all human history. As each war ends, each generation swears never again to beat the drums of war, and yet like any addict, the human race[…]
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The Cake is a Lie
Tenth in an ongoing series about the deeper reasons behind the difficulty of finding work After reading last week’s post you may be thinking that War is such a wonderful thing that we should just[…]
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