In January of 1970, our 10th grade English teacher read the class 12 short pieces of advice that were part of a calendar, one for each month of the year. The advice pertained not how to be healthy or how …
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A First Glance at Plato
First, we can either reject this idea (at left) or accept it as truth. Since it comes from a fairly decent pedigree, Plato, let’s assume that it has some merit. From there, we need to wonder what he meant by …
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Who Gets Saved From Perdition, and Why?
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable …
Liberals and Compassion
Occasionally we run into a remark made by one of the great philosophers that has applicability to modern day politics. Here’s Plato speaking on various kinds of knowledge, where he ranks compassion as #1, and provides his absolutely brilliant reasoning. …
Promote What You Love….
At first glance, this makes sense. It’s what Buckminster Fuller meant when he said, “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.” There is a problem …
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