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Seasoned Learner Institute - A Concept Paper (Popularity:  )
Currently many institutions and programs are asking, "How can we offer meaningful lifelong learning opportunities for the wave of retirees (AKA baby boomers) crashing upon our shoreline?" Colleges are in the process of creating or expanding their offering for lifelong learning (typically including "extended education" and "distance learning). Community based organizations (YM/WCA, RSVP, Senior Centers) are also trying to determine how this new wave of retirees will differ from their ...
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The Meaning of Life - What the Earliest Ancient Greek Philosophers Knew (Popularity: )
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Over two and a half thousand years ago, at a time when human beings were just beginning to think about the world they lived in, an extraordinary concept was being articulated by the very earliest philosophers of Ancient Greece. Ever since that time this idea has been emphasised by many great philosophers including Socrates, the Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi. Yet we still haven't understood the secret that has the power ...
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Trust (Popularity: )
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Learning to trust continues to be one of the most challenging spiritual practices of my life. A long time ago, when I was a boy, I clearly remember making the choice to trust people I met. When I was young, friends seemed rare and precious. I felt fortunate to be able to call even one person a true friend. Today, I am blessed with many friends, and they are deeply ...
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The Evolution of Consciousness (Popularity: )
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The future of Earth that is not in question; it's the future of the human race. If we continue to disrupt the ecosystem, Earth will become increasingly hostile to humans. It may seem obvious, but I think it's worth pointing out that any meaningful discussion of Earth's future must be in the context of the human race's place on it. There will unquestionably be many more extinctions, quite possibly leading ...
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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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The Alumni Paint (Popularity: )
There is nothing better than going back towards the roots while, there is nothing worse than cutting off the roots!
Nostalgia is normally considered in maroon sense but one of its shades; homesickness is something that crafts a tender heart and high values of association.
Association with home, association with family, association with friends and association with the institution; all this is what contributes to making of a unique personality, evolved from ...
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The Secret of an Online Think Tank - How on Earth do They do it? (Popularity: )
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Often, the Online Think Tank is asked what makes you tick, how do you come up with new innovative Aerospace Designs one moment and then re-design Third World urban slums the next? The answer to the question involves us giving away a secret. One which will seem simple once it is explained to you.
You see we take in massive amounts of data from all types of sources. Sure like most ...
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The Pink Sky (Popularity: )
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We all have heard about the statements pertaining to different behaviors of humans everyday. This is also attributed as 'a different mask everyday'. Sometimes, this is misunderstood as having multi-personalities, but the fact remains that even the sky takes refuge into different colors according to its mood! Be it the rainy orange, or the rainbow colorfulness, or cloudy black, or the pinkness of a mixture of emotions! The sky is ...
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The Mind and Body Connection - The Mind Body Difference (Popularity: )
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Why can't you define physical versus non-physical? Because the distinction is not physical versus non-physical but rather physical versus experiential. Thus, while we are indeed physically one being, we also have two physiological brains, each with its own way of experiencing life.
What this means is, we collect (physically sense) and store (remember) sensation itself in one place; in the physical body. But we process and feedback these sensations from two ...
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A Bluffers Guide To Philosophy (Popularity: )
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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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