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The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong—By Bill McKibben (Harper's Magazine)
"America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior. That paradox—more important, perhaps, than the much touted ability of French women to stay thin on a diet of chocolate and...

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@rationem i prefer art to philosophy

RT @RetiredTeacherD Liked The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world wont work - if you wont. -- Zig Ziglar

@setv I'm interested in Buddism as a philosophy. But not the religion. I don't believe in karma and reincarnation.

…My heart’s in Accra » Jonathan Lyons on the Islamic resolution of science and monotheism
"Arabic libraries held hundreds of thousands of books. When the sultan decided to donate books to a new school, he sent 80,000 from his personal collection. The seat of knowledge was Baghdad ... the calif was a student of Euclid ... While...

RT @casuist: Brachylogy or macrology. Old, old debate in philosophy, e.g. Plato's Gorgias

Why Do The Rich Keep Working? - Forbes.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow...

uh oh...is experiencing cosmological-like philosophy reverb, much to his digression

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Study: choir prefers being preached to by 2:1 margin - Ars Technica
There are two competing ideas on the process that governs the formation and maintenance of beliefs: 1) people maintain a belief because they have limited access to opposing beliefs, or 2) because they actively filter information in a way that avoids...

When I start thinking about philosophy, I remember not to speak out loud for fear of making other people think I'm high on something.

John Dillinger, Existentialist by Thomas S. Hibbs on National Review Online
But the pace, in the end, is precisely the point. Dillinger is nothing more than what he does. He robs banks, and in this he achieves a kind of freedom, liberation from petty concerns over a job and a family, over what others think of him, over the...