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A Bluffers Guide To Philosophy (Popularity:  )
Have you every wondered whether the Kantian categorical imperative of modern deontological ethics, necessitates an unnecessarily egoist view of morality?
Have you ever wondered why philosophers who seek the meaning of life, end up being miserable old men, only good for falling over their excessively long sentences and mental juxtapositions?
Did you ever struggle to get a third in a philosophy exam, through reading cheat sheets, which tell you how you are ...
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Adaptability (Popularity: )
Adaptability is the ability of a person to blend him / her self according to the external situations.
In the world of today, irrespective of any working environment that you live in, adaptability is considered a quality. In interviews and other places where a person is judged, adaptability is one quality that everyone looks out for. But, is it really a quality?
According to me, adaptability is the weakness of a person ...
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Autumn Corridors (Popularity: )
Title: Autumn Corridors
Interesting read … Recommended … 4 stars
The Review
The author sets the scene by telling readers ‘this is not a story about death, it is a story about the ultimate answers concerning life and its relation to death. These answers came to me by way of these two unrelated but remarkable events. Part one: Spring Corridors – Life as It Was sets the work in motion. Chapter 1 The ...
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Book Review - Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself By Alan Alda (Popularity: )
Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself is a philosophy book. Yes, really. It is about meanings and values and thinking and learning from experience. True "meaning of life" stuff. Literally. But, be undaunted -- it is done with fun, humor, warmth and sensitivity. In plain English. It's full of fascinating stories drawn from the author's own life; a richly interesting life.
Alan Alda looks at his own writings from the ...
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Communique - If's, And's and Butt's (Popularity: )
Subject : Communique: If’s and’s and butts …
I have to wonder just how far we have come in our ability to communicate with each other. It is amazing that, at every possible moment, we can view, call, fax, text message and IM, our closest friends and associates in an immediate time frame -- yet there are serious gaps in our understanding of each other. Has there ever been so much ...
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Does the Rain of Benevolence Shower on One and All Alike? (Popularity: )
Knowing can be of two types. There is one kind of knowledge that is rote, memorized; the other is a live-knowing, known from your lived experiences. No memory is required here. Then what you know is true, authentic knowledge. In the former kind, knowledge is a burden, in which there is every possibility that one can drown; it can never make one weightless. Knowing can be a living experience too, ...
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Escaping the Prison (Popularity: )
I am bombarded by the sound bites of Wisdom. People forever email me the Dalai Lama’s rules for living; I get a daily quote of the day by email, another from the bridge column I read (the Bridge Column!!). Wise words surround me. They don’t register, of course. They make no difference, but I feel better for having read them and having sagely judged them as either amusing or wise ...
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First Class Ticket by Ann Marie Zakos - Book Review (Popularity: )
There are no coincidences. We come face to face with life lessons every day and can grow from them if only we choose to. Ann Marie Zakos reminds us of this in her fantastic work of fiction, “First Class Ticket.” Philosophy should be this fun and enlightening for all of us!
Madison is upset when she learns that she has to squeeze a philosophy class into her busy college schedule. What’s ...
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Gayatri Mantra - Supreme Mantra Of Vedas (Popularity: )
Mantras used by spiritual aspirants to achieve God- Realization are called deity Mantras . They are Saguna , with qualities or form producing, and aid the conceptualisation process, just as do visual symbols.
In time, recitation gives rise to the actual form of the particular deity. As a specialized sound body of consciousness, the Mantra is the deity itself. The form of the deity manifests as the visible portion of the ...
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Gravitation - The Attraction Point is Not There (Popularity: )
The force of gravitation was discovered by Newton along the following line of reasoning: if the Copernicus' System of the World is true, a fact plainly reflected by the astronomical data, then the motion of the Earth around Sun, or of the Moon around Earth, is a circular motion. One of the main facts of experience is that in a circular motion a body experiences a centrifugal force, tending to ...
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